1) Before attempting to print, make sure that you have set all the margins at zero using the print page setup option of your browser.

2) Click on each the following and print each page.

3) Color the exterior of the manger. Use your imagination.

4) Color the different figures.

5) Cut out carefully each character.

6) Cut out carefully the manger. Cut out VERY CAREFULLY the zones on the manger with the phrase "REMOVE". (For example, the window should be cut out.) Do not cut the bottom wood beams on the manger. These are there for ensuring a solid structural frame for the manger.

7) Color the interior of the manger. Use your imagination. Don't be afraid. For the interior, you may draw in piles of straw, wooden beams, some small animals (birds, mice, etc.), blankets, etc.

8) Fold the taps and manger along folding lines (lines with white dots).

9) Paste manger together making sure that all walls are perfectly aligned.

10) Fold taps of characters and trees.

11) Paste the donkey and bull on the interior back wall of the manger.

12) Paste the angel in the center of the front top beam of the manger.

13) Paste the star on top of the straw. Paste the straw in the middle of the back exterior of the manger.

14) Optional: The palm trees: Color them and then cut them out carefully. Paste together the front and back of each tree. Paste palm tree #1 on the left corner of the back exterior wall of the manger. Paste palm tree #2 on the right corner of the back exterior wall of the manger.

15) Take a sheet of cardboard or paper and decide where on it you will place the manger. Then draw a road to the manger, sand, rocks and some bushes on the sheet.

16) Place manger on cardboard sheet. You can use a couple pieces of scotch tape to anchor the manger in place.

17) Place the characters (Mary, Joseph and Jesus) inside the manger. Place the another characters on the outside of the Christmas manger.

18) The manger is finished and all you have to do is put it in your room.