Christmas for Children: The Story, Customs and Tradition
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Here is a collection of information about Christmas written for children. It covers Christmas customs, the Christmas story, historical and geographical information plus links to sites where you can write to Santa, find recipes and find more information.
Carol Rainbow
Long time educator made redundant last year so spending time writing, teaching English and doing any work offered...Wife, mum, grandma...doggie walker, swimmer, reader, listener to music...Techie sort of person...Happy :-)I just love life basically :-D
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Christmas for Children - Carol Rainbow
Christmas for Children - The Story, Customs and Tradition
Here is a collection of information about Christmas. It covers Christmas customs, the Christmas story, historical and geographical information plus links to sites where you can write to Santa, find recipes and find more information.
This picture was uploaded by Harshlight on a Creative Commons License CC-BY 2.0 and can be seen at http://www.flickr.com/photos/harshlight/4242635153/sizes/s/in/photostream/ . Used with thanks.
Christmas for Children – The Story, Customs and Tradition
Published by Carol Rainbow at Smashwords
Copyright 2011
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Contents
The Christmas Story
What Happened?
The Star and the Magi
The Shepherds
The Bible version of the Christmas Story
Advent
The Origins of some Christmas Customs
Christmas Carols
The Story of the Christmas Tree
Christmas Tree Decorations
The Legend of Tinsel
Nativity Plays
Pantomime
Mistletoe Holly and Ivy
Door Wreaths and Garlands
The Yule Log
The Glastonbury Thorn
Why Evergreens?
Saturnalia
Candles
Christmas Cards
The Robin Redbreast
The Miracle of the Poinsettia
Christmas Crackers
Christmas Food
Christmas Pudding
Mince Pies
Christmas Customs
Christmas Customs in the UK and Europe
Christmas Customs in Poland
Festival of the Star
Christmas in Mexico
Christmas Customs in Sweden
Saint Nicholas
Santa Claus
Father Christmas
‘Twas the Night before Christmas
The story of Papa Panov
Baboushka
Find out More – Things to do
The Message
Traditional Rhyme
How many Gifts?
A Christmas Gift
Instant Messages
Christmas cards, labels and wrapping paper
Good links for kids
Acknowledgements
Message from the Author
From the same Author
A Christmas Quiz – the answers
The Cover Photograph
The Christmas Story
What Happened?
A very long time ago in the town of Nazareth Mary was sitting alone in her house when an angel visited her and told her that she was going to have a baby that she would call Jesus. This baby would be God's son.
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Not long after Mary had to go with Joseph on a long journey back to where Joseph's family had been born. They had to go there to pay a tax and be counted. This was a long hard journey and Mary got very tired.
They tried to stop and rest in an inn, but all of the inns were full up. All that they could find to rest in was a stable. In that stable baby