Puppet Recipes 11: Mechanical Christmas

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Guide to the tradition of Czech mechanical Christmas nativity scenes and how to carve them Czechs love Christmas traditions. Nativity scenes are especially popular. For centuries, woodcarvers around the country have made wooden scenes of Bethlehem where common folk, animals and Czech landscapes overshadow religious imagery. Often they are brought to life with ingenious wooden machinery, originally hand-cranked, now often motorized. Find out more including how they are constructed at our next online Puppet Recipe Workshop. Plus you can read about it in our blog post, The Magic of Mechanical Nativities.