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It is Christmas Time!

What do you know about Christmas?

Can you tell a friend about this

Christmas photo?

Do you know any

facts about
Christmas?
What is Christmas?

Christmas is a festival.

It is celebrated in lots of places

around the world.

Many Christians celebrate Christmas to

remember the birth of Jesus.

Christmas can be celebrated

in lots of different ways.

Do you celebrate Christmas?

When is Christmas?

Christmas is usually celebrated in December.

Many people celebrate Christmas Day on the

25th of December.

Some people celebrate the weeks before

Christmas during a time called Advent.

I have an advent calendar!

Each day I open a little door
on the calendar to count the
days until Christmas Day.
Christian Celebrations

As part of Christmas celebrations, some

people go to church.

Church services often include a retelling of

the story of the birth of Jesus.

Christmas carols are sung. These are special

songs often based on the Christmas story.

My family go to church for Midnight

Mass on Christmas Eve.
Nativity
The story of the birth of Jesus is sometimes
called the Nativity.

It describes baby Jesus being born in a

stable in Bethlehem.

Nativity sets showing the story events are

sometimes displayed.

At Christmas time, children sometimes

perform in Nativity shows.

Can you guess which character I am

playing in my Nativity show?
Decorations

Many people like to decorate their homes as

part of Christmas celebrations.

Churches, shops and schools are often decorated

too.

Christmas trees can be displayed and

decorated with lights, tinsel and baubles.

What can you see at the top of

this Christmas tree?
Cards and Presents

Lots of people like to send

Christmas cards to their
friends and family.

People often give Christmas presents to

their friends and family too.

We are writing some Christmas cards

for our friends. Do you like to send
Christmas cards?
Father Christmas
Father Christmas flies around the world
on Christmas Eve, delivering presents
to children.

Father Christmas is also known as Santa,

Papa Noel or Saint Nicholas.

Some families like to visit Father Christmas

and his elves.

It is traditional for children to write letters to Father Christmas.

Have you ever been to visit Father Christmas?

Christmas Dinner
Lots of different foods are eaten during
Christmas celebrations.

Some people like to get together with their family and

friends to have a Christmas dinner.

Christmas dinner may include roast turkey, nut roast,

Brussels sprouts, Yorkshire puddings, roast vegetables,
stuffing and gravy.

My favourite part of Christmas

dinner is the roast vegetables!
Christmas Foods I made some gingerbread
cookies! What is your
These are some other foods that are sometimes favourite food?
eaten during Christmas celebrations.

gingerbread Christmas
Christmas cake
cookies pudding

chocolate log mince pies candy canes

Christmas Traditions What Christmas traditions do
you like to do?
Lots of people have their own Christmas
traditions that they like to do each year.

pulling Christmas visits from a wearing Christmas

crackers cheeky elf pyjamas

wearing Christmas seeing Christmas

carol singing
jumpers lights
Fun Facts
Each year, the country of Norway sends a
Christmas tree to be displayed in Trafalgar
Square in London.

The first Christmas card was sent in 1843

in London.

Electric Christmas lights were first used to decorate

trees in the late 1800s. Before this, candles were used.

The Christmas carol, ‘Jingle Can you tell a friend

Bells’, was the first song to something you found out
be played in space. about Christmas?