Christmas for Children: The Story, Customs and Tradition

By Carol Rainbow

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.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Carol Rainbow
• Release date: Nov 14, 2011
• ISBN: 9781465971968

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 - 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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Contents

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