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Christmas fabric

40,000,000 Christmas Puddings!

That's a lot of Pudding!

Advent the coming of Jesus Christ; the calendar month leading up to Christmas

angel a spiritual being acting every bit a messenger of God (normally shown every bit a man being with wings)

berry a minor round red fruit on the holly tree oftentimes seen in wreaths

Bethlehem the small town in the Heart Eastward believed to be the birthplace of Jesus Christ

candle a cylinder of wax with a key wick (like string) which burns to produce light

chimney a vertical piping in a business firm that allows smoke and gases to escape from a fireplace (Father Christmas is believed to enter a house through its chimney)

Christ the title of Jesus (likewise used every bit His name)

Christmas the annual Christian festival celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ (Christmas Day is on 25 December in the Western World, and on vii January in the Eastern World)

Christmas cake a rich fruit cake covered with white icing, eaten at Christmas

Christmas card a greeting carte du jour that people send to friends and family at Christmastime

Christmas carol a religious song or popular hymn that people sing at Christmas

Christmas Day 25 December/seven January, the altogether of Jesus Christ

Christmas Eve the evening or day before Christmas Day (24 December)

Christmas holidays the holiday period for about a week before and afterward Christmas Day Also called the Christmas Season or Christmastime

Christmas present a gift or present given at Christmas

Christmas tree an evergreen tree (often a spruce) that people decorate with lights and ornaments at Christmas

cracker a busy paper tube that makes a abrupt noise ("crack!") and releases a small toy when two people pull it apart

decorations something put up in or on the firm or added to a Christmas tree for dazzler; ornaments

egg-nog a traditional Christmas drink fabricated of alcohol with beaten eggs and milk

Father Christmas an imaginary beingness who brings presents for children on the night before Christmas Day (also known as Santa Claus) – traditionally pictured as an old man with a ruddy conform and white beard

fireplace where people lite a fire in their homes for warmth; Santa is believed to downwards them.

frankincense a glue used for incense, one of the gifts that the iii wise men gave to Jesus

gilded a yellow precious metal, one of the gifts that the three wise men gave to Jesus

holly an evergreen plant with prickly nighttime greenish leaves and red berries

Jesus the name of Christ, the central figure of Christianity (believed by Christians to be the Son of God)

Joseph the husband of Mary (the mother of Jesus)

Magi Some other name for the Eastern wise men who brought gifts for the baby Jesus

manger a wooden box for horse or cattle food (Mary used as a cradle/bed for Jesus)

Mary the female parent of Jesus

mistletoe a white-berried plant that grows on other trees, traditionally used as a Christmas decoration. It was too considered sacred by the Druids

myrrh a gum used for perfume or incense, 1 of the gifts that the three wise men gave to Jesus

the Nativity the nascence of Jesus Christ

nativity play a play that people perform at Christmas telling of the birth of Jesus

ornament an object that adds dazzler to something; a decoration

poinsettia traditional red or white Christmas plant with big colourful leaves

reindeer a deer with large antlers found in some cold climates (believed to pull the sleigh for Santa Claus or Father Christmas)

Santa Claus an imaginary being who brings presents for children on the nighttime before Christmas Day (also known equally Father Christmas) - traditionally an old man with a red suit and white beard

shepherd a person who looks after sheep

sleigh a sledge or cart on runners pulled by horses or reindeer over snowfall and ice

stable a small barn or elementary, open building for farm animals

the Star of Bethlehem star that announced the nativity of Jesus and guided the wise men to detect Him

tinsel a ornament consisting of thin strips of shiny metallic foil, traditionally used at Christmas

turkey a bird similar a big chicken, traditionally eaten at Christmas

wreath White Christmas a circular decoration of evergreens or holly, sometimes with candle or bow a Christmas with snow on the ground. Also a famous holiday song and film.

Yule aboriginal Druid mid-winter festival historic by burning a large log of forest

Xmas abbreviation or breezy term for Christmas

25 December is Christmas Twenty-four hours. In Britain, people celebrate this solar day with a great Christmas dinner. The main course of the meal is usually turkey. And the traditional dessert is Christmas pudding. This year more than than 40,000,000 people volition finish their Christmas dinner with Christmas pudding!

Christmas pudding is a rich, boiled pudding fabricated with flour, suet and dried fruit. There are several customs associated with Christmas pudding. By tradition, a silverish coin is subconscious within the pudding when information technology is made. A few holly leaves are placed on top. And before the pudding is cut open and served, brandy is poured over information technology and set alight. Then it is eaten with thick, runny cream.

Although Christmas celebrates the nativity of Jesus Christ, two of these customs remind us of His expiry. The holly leaves are a reminder of Christ'south "Crown of Thorns". And it is said that the flames from the brandy correspond the Passion. And the argent coin hidden in the pudding? The person that finds it is guaranteed to receive great wellness, wealth and happiness!

Vocabulary

brandy a strong alcoholic spirit made from vino

crown the round headdress that a king or queen wears

dessert sweet course at the terminate of a meal

flour powder from grain, used to brand staff of life, cakes etc.

holly shrub with prickly green leaves and ruddy berries

the Passion the suffering and expiry of Jesus Christ

pudding a steamed dish fabricated with suet and flour

suet fat from the insides of cows, sheep, etc

thorn abrupt, spiky part of a plant'due south stem (like a rose)

turkey a large bird, similar a large chicken

Annotation: "pudding" can be countable or uncountable. When it's countable, we think of the private pudding(southward). When it's uncountable, we think of the food in general. Did you lot notice its countable/uncountable use in the title to this article?

• twoscore,000,000 Christmas Puddings! [countable]

• That's a lot of Pudding! [uncountable]

Traditional Christmas Expressions

• Merry Christmas! · Happy Christmas! (British)

• Happy Holidays! · Seasons Greetings!

• Merry Christmas and a Happy New year's day!

Abroad in a Manger

(Christmas Carol)

Abroad in a manger, no crib for a bed,
The little Lord Jesus laid downwardly his sweet head.
The stars in the brilliant sky looked down where he lay,
The picayune Lord Jesus comatose in the hay.
The cattle are lowing, the baby awakes,
Simply little Lord Jesus no crying he makes.
I dear Thee, Lord Jesus, look down from the sky
And stay by my cradle 'til morn is most.
Exist near me, Lord Jesus, I ask Thee to stay
Close by me forever, and love me, I pray.
Bless all the dear children in Thy tender care,
And take us to heaven, to live with Thee at that place.

manger (noun) a box for food for horses or cows
crib (noun) cot; small bed for a baby
hay (substantive) dry grass for animals to eat
cattle (noun) cows
low (verb) to moo; to make the racket of a cow
awake (awoke, awoken) (verb) to wake up; to waken;
to wake up; to cease sleeping
cradle (substantive) cot; modest bed for a baby
'til (preposition) until; till; up to that time
virtually (adjective) near; close; imminent; not far
thee (pronoun) you lot (Center English language Language)
bless (verb) to give God'south dearest or make holy

Christmas Quiz

1. He'southward sometime, fat and likes to wear red dress. He brings children their presents on Christmas Day.

two. It'southward cold and white and falls from the sky.

iii. This is the proper name of a Christmas carol. Silent what?

4. What is the name of the day before Christmas Twenty-four hours?

5. What is Santa Claus' favorite color?

6. Many people go at that place on Christmas Twenty-four hour period. They go at that place to pray, and to sing carols.

7. Information technology's green and brown. People put presents under it and open them on Christmas 24-hour interval.

eight. On Christmas Day, we say Happy Christmas! What's another discussion for Happy?

9. Y'all can meet and hear this in a church. People ring it.

ten. On Jan start, we say Happy New _________.

eleven. What kind of fauna is Rudolph? Rudolph the red-nosed what?

12. This is something you make with snow. It looks similar a human being.

13. How does Santa Claus enter a house? He comes down a what?

fourteen. Many people consume this delicious bird roasted on Christmas Day.

15. You lot can see this at night high in the sky.

16. What flavour does Christmas come up in?

17. Children (and adults) receive these on Christmas Day.

18. Who helps Santa Claus with his piece of work?

nineteen. In what calendar month does Christmas fall?

twenty. This is something the mailman brings at Christmastime. He puts it through the alphabetic character box.

21. It's sweetness. We eat it on Christmas Day.

Christmas Party Games

Pass The Parcel...

Put a special gift into a box for the classroom (It may be a new book, chalk etc.) Wrap it in may different layers of wrapping paper.  Accept the children sit down in a circumvolve and pass the package around to the music.  When the music stops have the child unwrap one layer of paper and follow the instructions given (i.e., sing a song).   Continue on playing music until all layers accept been unwrapped.  Have the final person share with the group.

Santa Claus Scramble...

Write the messages S-A-North-T-A C-L-A-U-South on individual index cards.   Exercise this 4 times, making four sets, or forty cards.  Identify the cards in a brownish paper bag.  To play - have the players dissever into two teams on opposite sides of the room.  Pass the bag that contains the letters.  The teams alternate in picking a letter.  The showtime team to combine their messages to spell SANTA CLAUS wins!

Candy Relay...

Divide the kids into teams and have them form lines.  Give the get-go player in each line a pair of mittens.  Give everyone a piece of wrapped processed.   At a signal, the get-go actor in each squad puts on the mittens, unwraps the candy, and pops information technology into their oral cavity, the second actor does the same, and then on, downwards the line.   The team that finishes showtime wins.

Santa Snowball Toss...

Cover the bottom and sides of a rectangular cardboard box with structure paper. On a piece of paper, draw a Santa face with a large oral fissure. Paint or color the face with markers.  Glue information technology to the box and cut out the big oral fissure. Cover vi big cotton balls with plastic wrap. To play, Place Santa against a wall. Give each histrion vi tries at throwing balls into Santa's rima oris. Run across who feeds Santa the most.

Snowman Game...

Give everyone a slice of newspaper and a pen/pencil and tell them nosotros're going to draw a snowman but with their eyes closed.  The results are hilarious.

INSTRUCTIONS DICTATION:

First, draw three the 3 circles on peak of each other like a snowman.
Draw the 3 buttons.
Draw the optics, nose, rima oris.
Draw a hat.
Draw stick arms.
Then they tin can open their eyes.  You tin vote who did the all-time.

Christmas Art

Gingerbread People...

Take Children make gingerbread people cutting out of chocolate-brown construction paper. Add together yarn and raisins for face up, wearing apparel and decorations.

Christmas Chain...

Have the children make paper chains with enough links to make one for each day leading upward to Christmas. Adhere the bondage to a paper bong.

Add the post-obit verse:

How many days till Christmas?
Information technology's very hard to tell
Take off a link every night
When the Sandman casts his spell.
And Christmas Eve volition be hither
By the fourth dimension y'all reach the bong.

The children have off i link every nighttime to count down the days until Christmas.

Christmas Angel...

Make the body out of a triangle and a circle for her head. Fold a java filter in half and glue on a sheet of blackness construction newspaper. And then gum the body then the head. Make a face on the head: eyes closed, oval nose sideways and oval mouth. Add together decoration on the bottom of her dress and past her bodice. Use a glitter pen for her halo.

Bells...

Cover styrofoam cups with tin foil.  Attach a string/thread upwards through the center of the bell.  Hang them around the room.

Christmas Trees...

Cutting out Christmas copse from green construction newspaper.  Hole dial the top of the tree. Have the children decorate the tree with pieces of yarn, glitter, and fruit loops.   Be sure to decorate both sides before hanging upward.

Christmas Songs And Fingerplays

Here'due south a Lilliputian Candle...

(I'one thousand a Little Teapot)

Here'due south a little candle dressed
in white,
Wearing a lid of xanthous lite.
When the night is dark,
then you will see
Just how bright this light can be.
Hither's a petty candle straight
and tall,
Shining it's light upon the states all.
When the night is dark,
then you will come across
Just how brilliant this light tin be.
Here'due south a fiddling candle burning vivid.
Keeping us safe all through the night.
When the night is nighttime,
then you will see
Just how bright this light tin be!

Sometime St. Nicholas...

(Onetime McDonald Had a Farm)

Quondam St. Nicholas had a tree
(course tree with arms)
Ho, ho, ho, ho, ho!
And on that tree he had some horns (accident horns)
Ho, ho, ho, ho, ho!
With a toot, toot here and a toot,
toot in that location
Here a toot, At that place a toot,
Everywhere a toot, toot!
lights – flash, flash
processed – yum-yum
drums – babel
bells – ring-band
stars – twinkle, twinkle
snowflakes – palpitate, flutter

Reindeer Pokey...

(The Hokey Pokey)

You put your antlers in.
You put your antlers out.
You put you antlers in and yous shake them all about.
You practice the Reindeer Pokey and yous turn yourself around.
That's what it'southward all near!
You put your hooves in....
You put your scarlet nose in....
You put your fluffy tail in...
Y'all put your reindeer body in...

I'yard A Little Pine Tree...

(I'yard A Little Teapot)

I'm a piddling pine tree – as you tin come across,
All the other pine trees
are bigger than me.
Perchance when I grow up-and so I'll exist
A great big merry Christmas tree!

Where Is Santa...

(Are you sleeping?)

Where is Santa? Where is Santa?
Hither I am!  Here I am!
Merry, merry Christmas
Merry, merry Christmas
Ho, Ho, Ho!  Ho, Ho, Ho!

I'm A Little Christmas Tree...

I'm a little Christmas Tree
Shining, shining merrily!
A star at my head
Gifts at my feet
And on all my branches
Candy and so sweetness!

Who Makes Christmas Fun?

Frosty, Frosty are y'all the one
Who makes Christmas so much fun?
Oh, no, no, no.  Information technology's not me
Who makes Christmas so merry!
I sing and play each snowy day
But with the sun, I melt away!

Rudolph, Rudolph are yous the 1
Who makes Christmas then much fun?
Oh no, no, no.  It's non me
Who makes Christmas so merry!
On Christmas Eve, I light the way
Merely home I go with Santa's sleigh
Santa, Santa, are you lot the one
Who makes Christmas so much fun?
Oh, no, no, no. Information technology'south not me
Who makes  Christmas so merry!
I do bring gifts to girls and boys
Merely Christmas is much more
than toys!
Christmas is peace, laughter and fun
And sharing dearest with everyone!

Christmas Bells...

(The Muffin Man)

Oh, do you hear the Christmas bells,
The Christmas bells,
the Christmas bells?
Oh, do yous hear the Christmas bells
That ring out loud & clear?
Oh, tin you meet our Christmas tree,
Our Christmas tree,
our Christmas tree?
Oh, tin can you meet our Christmas tree?
It fills the room with cheer.
Oh, do you smell the gingerbread,
The gingerbread, the gingerbread?
Oh, do y'all smell the gingerbread?
I'm glad Christmas is hither.

Nosotros'll Decorate The Tree...

 (The Farmer in the Dell)

We'll decorate the tree,
We'll decorate the tree.
Heigh-ho, it'southward Christmastime,
We'll decorate the tree.
The presents we will wrap,
The presents nosotros will wrap.
Heigh-ho, it's Christmastime,
The presents we will wrap.
Carols we will sing,
Carols we will sing.
Heigh-ho, information technology's Christmastime,
Carols we volition sing.

Christmas Colors...

(Three Blind Mice)

Cherry, green, white; red, green, white,
Christmas colors, Christmas colors.
Red is the color on holly wreaths,
Green is the color of Christmas trees,
White is the color from stars so bright.
Carmine, green, white; red, greenish, white.

Permit'due south All...

(We Wish You A Merry Christmas)

Let'southward all do a little clapping,
Permit's all practice a picayune clapping,
Let's all do a little clapping,
And spread Christmas cheer.
2.Jumping, three.Twirling,
4.Stretching, 5.Bending

There Was A Homo...

(BINGO)

At that place was a human in a big red suit and
Santa was his name-O
S - a - northward - t -a, S - a -due north - t - a,
Southward - a - n - t - a
and Santa was his name-O

Christmas Presents...

Encounter all the presents
past the Christmas tree.
(Easily in sweeping motion.)
Some for you lot
(Betoken to children.)
And some for me.
(Point to cocky.)
Long ones,
(Easily spread wide apart.)
Alpine ones,
(Measure from the floor.)
Curt ones, as well.
(Easily close together.)
And hither is a round one
(Make circumvolve with arms.)
Wrapped in blue.
Isn't it fun to look and come across
All the presents by the Christmas tree?
(Nod.)

A Shy Santa...

Isn't it the strangest thing,
That Santa is so shy?
(hide face with hands)
We tin never, never catch him,
(brand fingers run)
No matter how we attempt.
It isn't any use to watch,
(agree hand to optics and wait)
Because my parents said,
"Santa Claus will only come
When children are in bed!"
(shake finger)

Gingerbread Man...

Stir a basin of gingerbread
(stir as in bowl)
Smooth and spicy brown
Roll  it with a rolling pivot
up and upwards and down
(Pretend to roll)
With a cookie cutter,
(pretend to cut out)
brand some piddling men.
Put them in the oven
(place in oven)
till half past ten!

Compiled past Erin Bouma

solisrourt1999.blogspot.com

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