For a project at our local church, Church of the Nativity (Episcopal), my proposal is to have the 3 to 8 year olds draw scenes from the Christmas story and then the men's group would use my metal shop to create enlarged version of some of the kids' drawings to create our own manger/creche scene for the church in December. I think it's ideal because you can never have too many sheep, stars, flowers, or angels, or shepherds in the scene, so every kid would have one of his or her bits of drawing included. Of course, it could be repeated in a few years and new kids' pieces added. It seems so much more personal and right to me than buying large plastic faux Italian creche scenes.
The drawing below (click on it see an enlargment) was done by me as an example only. The steel pieces painted white of an angel in glory, a shepherd, and sheep, are taken from the drawing as examples of what could be done in this scale or larger. I have no objection to including other items in the project, such as the three kings riding giraffes or exotic animals in the barn such as dinosaurs (a lot of five year old boys are obsessed with dinosaurs) or hamsters.
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