The Legend of Saint Martin

The city wall had only one entrance and that was a big gate. (We are now building this in the city wall.)

Inside in the wall, there were the houses of the people who lived there.
(Let's put them in now.) Tip: You can make the houses with the children first!

In the city, however, not only people live, but also animals and they need a stable. (The stable is also added.)

Geese live in the stable. (Now we put a goose in it.)

Anyone who wants to enter the city must walk the way through the city gate. (We lay the way to the gate with stones).

Martin is on his way home to the city with his horse. (We're putting Martin and his horse on the way.)
It's freezing cold. Martin has a big coat and because it's so cold, he rushes to get home quickly. But then his horse stops at once. (It stops right in front of the big gate.)
Martin discovers a poor man. He sits there and has broken clothes on and no coat at all. He freezes and is hungry."Please, please give me something to eat, I am so hungry," the man begs. Martin gives him everything he has. The man trembles and freezes so much.
Martin takes his sword and divides his coat in the middle. Martin gives one half to the poor man and kills the other.
The poor man is astonished and before he can say thank you Martin has ridden already further. He wanted to go home very quickly.

Martin goes home and lies down in his bed. (We lay Martin on a house).
At night Martin dreams that the poor man was Jesus. When he wakes up, he decides that he will no longer be a soldier. Martin prefers to help other people.

He puts down his helmet and sword and no longer wants to go back to the king.

When the king's people want to get him, Martin hides in the barn by the geese. He thought no one was looking for him.
BUT: the geese have snatched so loud (I snatched very loudly) that the people of King Martin have discovered.

He didn't go with the king's people. Martin became a priest and helped many people. That's why we celebrate our Martinsfest. To commemorate Martin, we walk through the streets with our lanterns and give people a light in the dark.

At the end of our story, we light a lantern or a table light and sing a lantern song together.

You can leave the built up, then the children can play with it.

You can also build the city walls with the city gate and the houses from Lego stones.

Old man, Saint Martin and the horse

Or you use cuddly animals as laying material.

And here's another variant.