CoaL CandY Recipe For Kids

Coal candy or Candy coal is a type of candy in the USA, Canada, Spain and Italy associated with Christmas and the tradition of giving lumps of coal in place of presents in the Christmas stockings of naughty children. In Japan it´s called "kaitaname".
Ingredients: 
1 package double Oreos, a package of cream cheese and powdered Sugar. 
        Steps: 
1. Put the Oreos into the blender or food processer to grind finely into crumbs. 
2. Pour Oreo crumbs into a bowl and mix in the whole pack of cream cheese; you can use your hands to mix them. 
3. Once ingredients are combined, roll into balls, place on a baking sheet and put them in the fridge for about 15 minutes
4. Remove from fridge, sprinkle with powdered sugar, and ENJOY! :)

The Christmas Star & The 3 Magi

"The Appearance of the Star" by Giovanni Da Modena (1412)
The german astronomer Johannes Kepler proposed in 1604 that The Christmas Star followed by the 3 Wise Men to Bethlehem, was a conjunction of Mars, Jupiter and Saturn in 7 B.C.
Image: Grant Mathews
Joe Raymond  /  AP
Grant Mathews, a Notre Dame astrophysicist, points at a computer generated demonstration of the night sky around the time of the birth of Jesus Christ: an unusual alignment of the sun, Jupiter, the Moon and Saturn aligned in the constellation Aries while Venus and Mars were in adjacent constellations.
Mathews believes The Three Magi were Zoroastrian astrologers who would have recognized the planetary alignment as a sign a powerful leader was born.

A Christmas Silhouette Animation by Lotte Reiniger