Cut the furring strip board to the sizes you'd like your nativity pieces to be. Sand them to remove any splinters.
Paint each piece and allow to dry. Sand to distress if desired.
Create Baby Jesus from a 2.5 inch square of white felt and a .75 inch wood bead.
Create Mary using the five inch wood block, a 1.5 inch ball knob, and a 2x10 inch piece of burlap. Glue Baby Jesus to Mary and tie with twine.
Glue ball knobs to the top of the Joseph and shepherds blocks. Glue twigs on the front of the shepherds and tie with twine.
Create heads for the sheep by cutting ears from white felt and gluing them to a wood bead, covering the holes in the bead. Glue the heads onto the small sheep blocks.
Glue heads on the wise men. Create crowns from 5 inch lengths of gold trim and glue them on.
Glue the star to the top of the star stand block.