Carole and Jack's Nativity Collection: Unusual materials

Nativities have been made in a large variety of materials. There is no end to the creative ways depict their visualization of the nativity. We especially like when common materials are recycled.

Producing sculpture from ashes is a complicated process. We have two sets made from the ashes of Mt St

Helens.. The one on the left is made up of 4 pieces that are in the front of the shelf. These pieces were given to us by Eugene and Colleen Slade when they visited us one Christmas. The free standing one in the back (right side) was brought back to us from Seattle by Bill and Ebbie. They were sure we had never seen anything like it.

Nativity painted on sawed off wooden spoon. Bought at 2015 Kutztown Folklife Festival.

Painted on a sand dollar

Corn husk nativity of unknown origin

Found at a 2015 Christmas bazaar

We found this mother of pearl nativity in the Christmas store in Oakland, MD. The angel in the foreground was not part of the original set but an ornament that we had acquired somewhere else.

We met Ann Neal at South River High School's 2014 Christmas bazaar. Among many other things she had Christmas ornaments made out of milkweed pods. Carole asked her if she could paint one with a nativity. She did and then brought it to our house so she could see our collection.

Corn husk nativity a gift from Ginger and Mark that they found in Austria when they were on a Danube River cruise.

One of Kathy's young friends made these rubberband figures for me. The high tension on the rubberbands makes they break easily. Note the shepherd is missing an arm. They are encased in a display box.

Gift from Bonnie and Gary. Made from bread dough.

Found the two colored beeswax ornaments at a Kutztown Folklife Festival. I do not know anything about the process that was used.

Our first beeswax ornament. Made locally by an Anne Arundel bee keeper. He sells honey and beeswax products at the Farmers Market on Riva Road in Annapolis.