Prickly Hay is an exciting new nativity musical with a fun hoedown flavour. It is narrated by Sam, a hardworking stable boy, and features himself, his faithful friend Shrew and some very special visitors. Now available with Words on Screen™.
An Annual Performance Licence is required to perform this title. For more information, please click here.
About Prickly Hay
The Prickly Hay nativity combines a very simple script by Mary Cliff and Kelly Fort, and eight catchy songs from Kelly Fort. Incorporating a variety of musical styles, this is a fun and heart-warming nativity musical that is ideal for 4-8 year olds.
The Prickly Hay story begins with Sam, a hardworking young stable boy, trying to keep the stable clean and the hay fresh for all the animals in his stable - a very smelly job! No one seems to notice his hard work and it's making Sam feel very insignificant. His ever-faithful friend, Shrew, tries to keep his spirits up, but Sam is finding it hard to feel important at all.
However, as crowds gather in Bethlehem for the census and the inns fill up, some very special visitors are shown to Sam's stable. Gradually, as the miraculous events of the night unfold, Sam starts to realise his worth - with a little help from his friend Shrew!
Available with Words on Screen™ allowing you to display song lyrics on any whiteboard, computer screen, television or interactive touchscreen. The lyrics synchronize with the music as it plays making them easy to teach and easy to learn!
An Annual Performance Licence is required to perform this nativity.
An editable script is available for this product when you purchase a package that includes an eSongbook.
Licence Information
Annual Performance Licence Information - What You Need To Know
- A current Annual Performance Licence is required to perform a musical or nativity to an audience (other than to pupils & staff), including an online audience, and irrespective of whether admission charges are made.
- It is more cost effective to purchase an Annual Performance Licence as part of a complete product pack.
- An Annual Performance Licence covers any number of performances of a particular musical or nativity within 12 months of the date of ordering. A separate Annual Performance Licence is required for each product title.
- To renew your Annual Peformance Licence, log into your account if you have one and go to your My Licences section.
Find out more about what your Annual Performance Licence will legally cover you to do.
All of our eSongbooks come with a Single User Licence
- This means you can install our Words on Screen™ software onto ONE computer only, or it can be streamed by a single user.
- If you would like to install this software onto your network server and/or two or more computers, or allow multiple users to stream Words on Screen™ songs, this will be covered by your Annual Performance Licence which includes extended digital rights. For more information, click here.
The following items are available for this product:
Teacher's Book
- Character list
- Script
- Music score and song lyric sheets for 8 songs (Piano music score, melody and chords)
- Licence and copyright details
Audio CD
- Vocal tracks sung by children
- Professional backing tracks
- Additional sound effects e.g. Crying Baby Jesus
Words on Screen™ eSongbook
- An online Words on Screen™ product to stream or download
- Extractable MP3s, printable lyrics, scores, scripts, (including editable script*) & additional resources
- Words on Screen™ versions of songs so that you can display song lyrics on any whiteboard, computer screen, television or interactive touchscreen. The lyrics synchronize with the music as it plays making them easy to teach and easy to learn
- Flexibility to create an expandable library of Words on Screen™ song collections, nativities and musicals in your Out of the Ark online account
- Enhanced operation features including ‘double-click’ to hear and teach a single line
- Words on Screen™ user guide
- Single-User licence (Please note a Performance Licence is still required to perform this musical)
- Licence & copyright details
Annual Performance Licence
An Annual Performance Licence covers any number of performances of a particular musical or nativity within 12 months of the date of ordering. A separate Annual Performance Licence is required for each product title.
Find out more about what your Annual Performance Licence will legally cover you to do.
Rehearsal CDs
- Vocal tracks sung by children
- Professional backing tracks
- Additional sound effects e.g. Crying Baby Jesus
- Available in packs of 5, 10 or 20
Cracking songs even after singing them for weeks on end.
Well done Out of the Ark, a wonderful nativity packed with catchy songs aimed just at the right level for our year two's. Nativities are always lots of work, but there were plenty of suggestions/options to put more into the production or pair things down where needed which made the process engaging throughout. Highly recommended.
Fabulous Christmas Play
Our son has just performed this for his Year 2 Christmas Play and it was absolutely fantastic! The children loved it, the sounds are wonderful, catchy and uplifting, and I was so so impressed! Would highly recommend for a fun filled nativity.
Fun
My daughter loves performing this and I enjoyed watching it. A very fun and adorable play!
Great!
Brilliant fun nativity play and great for the ks1 age range!
My son loved performing this!
My son performed this play in year 2 and he was stable boy Sam and loved performing it. He found it very easy to learn his lines and he loved singing all the songs and doing actions to them. As a parent I'm so happy that out of the ark provides these brilliant plays for primary aged children. They are all loved by so many teachers,parents and children. I have already recommended this play to my sister who is a primary school teacher she says she's definitely going to use it with her year 1 class. I rate this play 5 stars and I definitely recommend it to any teacher!
Best nativity show ever!
I can still remember all of these songs 2 years on which shows how good it is! Fabulous nativity with a lot of humour - we had 45 Reception class children performing.
Great Fun
Fantastic fun Nativity that we used with 120 Year One children! Children loved the songs and still remember them 7 months later.
Best play we have ever done
We have Been performing nativity plays for many years and this one was the best. We were even asked to do it again in the new year because everyone loved it so much. The kids enjoyed it, the songs were lively and catchy....even the workers didn't mind getting up on stage. It was fab!!!
Fantastic- Best Ever!
Fun, simple, catchy songs, loved by all the children and adults. A very lively production with the christmas story at the centre.nBest musical we've ever done! Thank you and can we have some more please?
A great sucess
Our P1 - 3 have just peformed this nativity and what a sucess it was. The catchy songs led themselves to dancing and actions which allowed all our pupils to be involved.
Wonderful
Watched our P1's perform this yesterday. It was wonderful. Great catchy songs and a new idea for the Nativity. Priceless.
Fantastic!!!!!
We have just performed Prickly Hay with our KS1 and Reception classes, what a toe tapping heel clicking, yee haaing success it was!!!! It has been a joy to rehearse and the final performance was fantastic receiving a wonderful standing ovation. If you were looking for a different approach to the Nativity try this you will not be disappointed absolutely FABULOUS x
Love Prickly Hay
My children are performing this play at the moment at school and its really fantastic. The songs are great, the christian message is firmly there and the kids have loved learning their lines, fantastic product, thanks for Prickly Hay.
Boot scooting good fun
Beautiful fun nativity play. Perfect for our children aged between 5 and 8. A great way to introduce fun to your nativity celebrations. A boot scooting good time.
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