Christmas Coloring Pages
Long before anyone hung an ornament, people carried evergreen branches indoors in the middle of winter, a reminder that green things would grow again. I love Christmas but I'm no fan of shopping, so most of what hangs in my house is handmade. The oldest treasures are three crochet snowflakes my great-grandma made, and they've needed restarching a couple of times to keep their shape. For most of December my house is full of crafting, coloring and the smell of cinnamon.
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Well Known Christmas Stories
A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol in a matter of weeks in 1843, and it changed how many people think about Christmas. Ebenezer Scrooge starts out grumpy about the whole holiday, until three ghosts visit him in one very long night.
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‘Twas the Night Before Christmas
This poem first appeared in a newspaper in 1823 with no author's name on it, and it gave us Santa's sleigh, the eight reindeer and the trip down the chimney. Its real title is "A Visit from St. Nicholas", and people still argue about who wrote it.
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Frosty the Snowman
Frosty began as a song in 1950, and the story is simple. Some children build a snowman, put an old silk hat on his head, and he comes to life. The hat is the magic, and when the sun gets too hot Frosty promises he'll be back again someday.
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Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Rudolph was invented in 1939 as a story booklet that a department store handed out to shoppers, and the song came ten years later. On a foggy Christmas Eve his glowing nose is exactly what Santa needs to guide the sleigh.
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The Nisse of Denmark
On Christmas Eve, Danish families set out a bowl of porridge with a pat of butter on top for the nisse, a small farm helper who looks after the house and animals all year. Forget it, and he might tie the cows' tails together.
The Nutcracker
The Nutcracker is a ballet that first opened in Russia in 1892, with music by Tchaikovsky. On Christmas Eve a girl named Clara gets a wooden nutcracker that comes to life, and he leads her toy soldiers against the Mouse King before turning into a prince.
The Snow Queen
In this fairy tale a splinter from a broken magic mirror lands in a boy's eye and turns his heart cold. His friend Gerda sets out across the winter to find him, because the Snow Queen has carried him off to her palace of ice.
Wee Snowman
Cole is a wee snowman made from three snowballs who looks down one day and discovers he has a very big carrot nose. A dog and a crow think it's hilarious, and Cole is sure he'll feel ugly forever, until a girl with a spare woolly hat comes bounding out of the house.