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 
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.
The SteadFast Soldier by Hans Christian Andersen
Walt Disney used the Piano Concerto Nº 2 by the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich
Christmas Tree Light Up: Rockefeller Center, Manhattan - New York City (USA)
This aproximately 75 year old Norway spruce tree, measuring 76 foot and weighting 12 tons, made the 70-mile trip to N.Y city on a tractor-trailer from Conneticut last month.
It is decorated with 45,000 multi-colored LED lights and a 9 ½-foot-wide Swarovski star on its top.
The lighting up is part of a tradition started in 1933.
Trafalgar Square (London): Christmas Tree
This Christmas tree is usually over 20 metres tall and it´s typically a 50-60 years old Norway spruce, sent to Great Britain by ship.
It is a present to the people of Britain by the city of Oslo (Norway) since 1947, as sign of gratitude for the british support during the Second World War.
Arabian Night: The NutCracker by Pyotr Ilych Tchaikovsky
Walt Disney used this music in his FANTASIA film
Christmas Tongue Twisters
Eleven elves licked eleven little licorice lollipops
Santa's seven sleighs slid sideways
Santas Sleigh Glides In The Sky
Santa's sleigh slides on slick snow
Why Do PeopLe Kiss Underneath the MistLeToe?
Balder, Norse god of the Summer sun, dreamt that he was going to die. His mother, Frigga, said that if he died so will everything on Earth. To ensure her son's safety, Frigga went to all of the elements, animals and plants and asked them not to kill her son.
But Balder's only enemy, Loki, made a poisoned dart with mistletoe and tricked Balder´s blind brother Hoder into shooting the arrow killing the Summer god.
For three days, all the elements tried their hardest to bring Balder back to life, but failed.
But the tears that Frigga cried for her dead son changed the red mistletoe berries to white, raising her son from the dead. Frigga then kissed everyone who walked underneath it out of gratitude.
But the tears that Frigga cried for her dead son changed the red mistletoe berries to white, raising her son from the dead. Frigga then kissed everyone who walked underneath it out of gratitude.
In South Africa it´s called "bird lime" and voëlent in Afrikaans.
The sticky juice of the berries was used as adhesive to catch small animals or birds: ripe fruits were chewed until sticky, then rubbed between the palms of the hands to form long sticky strands which were coiled around small thin tree branches.
Christmas Jokes...
JINGLE BELLS
BATMAN SMELLS
ROBIN LAID AN EGG
THE BATMOBIL
HAS LOST A WHEEL
AND THE JOKER GOT AWAY
The Twelve Days of Chirstmas
The twelve days in the song start on Christmas Day (December 25th) or in some traditions on Boxing Day (December 26th) and end January 5th, the day before Epiphany .
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