Best new ideas for other activities committees: buffet line was outside of the multi-cultural hall, so the whole gym area could be set up for tables and chairs. The tables were all labeled with names, like "Stable" "Wisemen" "Judea" "Star" and we were called by tables of 3 to go to the YW room and sign cards for all the missionaries and service men and women, then up on the stage to take a family picture in the stable, then to the scout room next to the kitchen where the buffet was spread it. That way people could stay sitting until they had something specific to do, and not just wait in a long line all night (past years have been nightmarish that way).
Simple but beautiful decorations, lights on wires above tables, mini-trees along stage.
Our family was asked to sing all 5 verses of "This is the season, beloved of the year, sing a rhyme, Christmas time soon will be here, tell the true story, of Jesus' birth..." Primary song.
Suzu did a wonderful job playing the harp. Three year old Bella told her mommy, "I hear angels singing!" when we started. The harp made us all sound good, but we missed Emma's voice!
Bro. David Mattson (gpa to 4 Primary kids in our ward) made this manger years and years ago for the Primary when we did a pageant. I painted in the hay, and protected it with polyurethane. It still looks good at least a decade later! (Doesn't get hard use). We've posed newborns in it, after some serious padding of that center "V" shape. 
