Our Church School is having a week long summer day camp again this year, with the theme of Christmas in June. I’m volunteering with the craft projects. We are planning to have the children make several crèches over the course of the week.

One of them is this peg doll crèche. This is my mock up. These are the standard size Boy pegs, Angel pegs and Girl Pegs and I had a baby size peg in my stash. We have enough pegs for each child to have a Baby Jesus, Mary, Joseph, 3 Wise Men and a couple shepherds. I think we actually will have enough peg dolls for the children to add other village figures, like the crèches in Italy and France, were you have to hunt among the villagers to find to Holy Family. So much fun!

The kids will be given baby pegs in a tiny wooden bowl which I found at the Etsy shop, BlessingsFromHeaven7. Here is the sweet Baby Jesus in a bowl. (I only used peg dolls from my own stash for my crèche to make sure there were ample figures for the campers).

If you want more information on how I make my peg dolls, you can look at my tutorial on making Pea Sprout Peg Dolls or my tutorial on making Leaf Peg Dolls. Peg dolls are really are fun to make and not difficult!