Christmas in the UK

1. !!REINDEER!!
PRANCER
DONNER
THESE ARE THE NAMES OF
SANTAS REINDEER. THERE IS A
TRADITION WHERE WE LEAVE
OUT CARROTS AND WATER FOR
THE REINDEERS.THEY USUALLY
EAT THEM ALL.

2. A Christmas cake
may be light or
dark, crumbly- If a Christmas
moist to sticky- cake is covered
`wet, spongy to in icing, it is
heavy, leavened quite common
or unleavened, for it to be
shaped round, decorated -
square or oblong models of
as whole cakes, houses, of fir
trees or of Santa
Part of Christmas cake recipe Claus may be in
the array of
You need to begin this cake the night
decorations.
before you want to bake it. All you do is
weigh out the dried fruit and mixed peel,
place it in a mixing bowl and mix in the
brandy as evenly and thoroughly as
possible. Cover the bowl with a clean tea
cloth and leave the fruit aside to absorb
the brandy for 12 hours.
Next day pre-heat the oven to gas mark 1,
275°F (140°C).

3. They look like socks

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5. Christmas Pudding
When it’s Christmas we have
Christmas pudding, we pour brandy
over the pudding and set it on fire.
It’s traditionally eaten on Christmas
Day. Christmas pudding comes from
Medieval England. It originated as a
14th centaury porridge.

6. At Holt Farm Junior School
we have a Christmas bazaar
every year. At the Christmas
bazaar you can win all
different prizes from raffles
and tombola's.
Children also take
part in making stuff
for the Christmas
bazaar’s at HFJS.

7. There are many, many types of traditional
Christmas plants, for example the top left
is holly and the top right is mistletoe, the
bottom left is a Christmas tree and the
bottom right are poinsettia's. Mistletoe is
used over 2 peoples heads , and that
means they have to kiss. Holly is a
traditional British Christmas plant, as it is
usually placed on top of a item of food
such as Christmas pudding.

8. When Jesus was
born everyone
gave him a
present so that's
why we have
Christmas and
Christmas
presents.

9. Christmas
crackers are only
Christmas crackers represented on
Christmas day
because it is a
special time of
In a Christmas cracker there is a year.
toy if u want to get the toy you
have to pull it from each side
then it makes a noise and then
The traditional
the sweet comes out. way to hold a
cracker is to cross
your arms and
pull it as hard as
Christmas crackers are invented you can.
by a man named Thomas Smith
in 1846.
When Thomas Smith died his two sons
A Christmas cracker is a bright tube and
took over and done all of the patterns and
they have twisted ends on them they also
also the business.
have a lot of patterns on them.

10. Snowmen
When snow comes down
normally people would
build snowmen or they
would probably throw
snowballs.
There is a snowmen called Frosty and there is a song of Frosty the
snowmen.
There is no snow or ice in the Christmas story
told in the Bible.

11. Mistletoe is a tradition in the UK. There is an old
legend that if you kiss under the mistletoe it
would lead to a long happy marriage.

12. Dashing through the snow
In a one horse open sleigh
O'er the fields we go
Laughing all the way
Bells on bob tails ring
Making spirits bright
What fun it is to laugh and sing
A sleighing song tonight JINGLE
Oh, jingle bells, jingle bells BELLS
Jingle all the way
Oh, what fun it is to ride
In a one horse open sleigh
Jingle bells, jingle bells
Jingle all the way
Oh, what fun it is to ride
In a one horse open sleigh

14. Father
Christmas
Father Christmas is also known as Santa he comes
to our houses on the 24th while we are asleep. He
comes down our chimney to deliver our presents.

15. A christmas carol is a
novel wrote by Charles
dickens. Is about a man
called Ebenezer scrooge
he is a horrible man but
on christmas eve he is
visted by three ghosts.
Charles dickens

16. The traditional Christmas decorations colours are red and green. The
green represents the continuance of life through the winter and the
Christian belief in eternal life through Jesus. The red represents the
blood that Jesus shed at his Crucifixion.
Most people put there Christmas decorations up around a fortnight
before Christmas Eve. In the weeks leading up to Christmas , people
hang the decorations up, which are usually made out of coloured paper
or foil. Christmas decorations were invented in the Victorian times by a
man named Saint Boniface.
The practice of putting up special decorations
at Christmas has a long history. From pre-
Christian times, people in the Roman Empire
brought branches from evergreen plants
indoors in the winter. Decorating with
greenery was also part of Jewish tradition :
"Now on the first day you shall take for
yourselves the foliage of beautiful trees, palm
branches and boughs of leafy trees and
willows of the brook, and you shall rejoice
before the LORD your God for seven days. "

17. We have Christmas
plays some people call it
a nativity this tells us
about the birth of Jesus.
People act out how it
happened.

18. Decorations you can have:
•A bright reindeer or more with a
slay.
•Santa (Father Christmas)
•Lights/ Rainbow light bulbs
•Light up Santa/elf/snowman
•Light up present
•Ginger bread men
• CHRISTMAS TREES!!

19. AT CHRISTMAS DAY , WE EAT
CHRISTMAS DINNER ON THAT DAY,
AND TO CELEBRATE THE BIRTH OF
JESUS , THE SON OF GOD. AND LOVE
THE CHRISTMAS TURKEY FOR JESUS.

20. Christingle
On Christmas eve christingle services
are held at churches.
Everyone is given an orange and children are
often given special packs of sweets, a candle
and a ribbon.
While at the service you are told slowly and
patently
How to decorate your orange.
This is what the decoration represents.
an orange representing the world;
a red ribbon around it representing the blood of Jesus;
dolly mixtures, dried fruits or sweets skewered on cocktail sticks pushed into the orange,
representing the fruits of the earth and the four seasons
a lit candle pushed into the centre of the orange, representing Jesus Christ.

21. Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer Rudolph has a red nose and is the
had a very shiny nose.
And if you ever saw him,
leader of the reindeers.
you would even say it glows.
All of the other reindeer
used to laugh and call him names.
They never let poor Rudolph
join in any reindeer games.
Then one foggy Christmas Eve
Santa came to say:
"Rudolph with your nose so bright,
won't you guide my sleigh tonight?"
Then all the reindeer loved him
as they shouted out with glee,
Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer,
you'll go down in history!

22. AT CHURCH
At Christmas time people like to go to church for special services.
Most people will go to church at Christmas to read about the Christmas story or go to a special
Sunday school but of the time people watch a play put on by children.
Away in a manger, no crib for a bed,
The little Lord Jesus laid down his sweet head.
The stars in the bright sky looked down where he lay,
The little Lord Jesus asleep on the hay.
The cattle are lowing, the baby awakes,
But little Lord Jesus no crying he makes.
I love thee, Lord Jesus! Look down from the sky,
And stay by my side until morning is nigh.
Be near me Lord Jesus
I ask thee to stay.
Close by me forever,
And love my I pray.
Bless all the dear children,
In thy tender care.
And take them to heaven,
To be with thee there.