Christmas - December 25

Christmas is the most important holiday in the Western Christian community. On this day we celebrate the birth of Jesus, the father of Christianity.

The holiday was set in 354, by Pope Liberius, who declared December 25 to be the birthday of Jesus.

The story of the birth of Jesus has two versions in the New Testament: one appears in the Gospel according to Matthew, and the other in the Gospel according to Luke.

According to Luke the Virgin Mary revealed that she was pregnant by an angel, and that she was conceived by the Holy Spirit, without sexual contact. The emperor Augustus who ruled the Roman Empire at that time ordered registration in the census, so Miriam and her husband Joseph left their home in Nazareth and went to sleep with Joseph's family in Bethlehem. They could not find a vacant room in the inn to sleep in, so they spent the night in the family's stable. That night a girl picks up Jesus in a manger. The birth of Jesus in Bethlehem, the city of David's origin, was the fulfillment of the prophecy of the prophet Isaiah.

According to Matthew, after Jesus was born in Bethlehem (the book does not detail his parents' journey from Nazareth to Bethlehem), the three ancient sages came to visit the family. After the visit they came to Jerusalem and told King Herod that they had seen a star, which tells of the birth of a great king. They followed the star to Bethlehem, arriving at the place where Mary and Joseph were staying. They gave Jesus gifts - gold, myrrh and frankincense, and warned his parents against Herod's intentions to murder all the children in Bethlehem who were under the age of two, because of his fear of the birth of a child to compete for his chair. The family fled to Egypt and returned to Israel after Herod died. They settled in Nazareth because they feared Herod's son, Archelaus.

Nativity Scene: a Christmas custom is to design the scene of Jesus' birth in a barn with sculpted figures of Christ, His parents and possibly also with the ancient sages.

Among the main customs of the holiday:

Christmas tree decoration - a fir tree decorated with lights and ornaments.

Home decoration with green vegetation and mistletoe, many houses in North and South America also decorate the houses and courtyards from the outside.

Giving presents in the name of Santa Claus who arrives in a sleigh at night mounted on reindeer and places the presents under the fir tree.

Sancta Nicolas car in Haifa, near Santa Claus house

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Animated gifs of Christmas

Merry Christmas Greeting cards

Christmas Coloring pages

Christmas Sudoku for kids

A children's printable sudoku games with drawings of Christmas symbols. On each page you will find in the row below various drawings that you will need to embed in the game table. Cut out the drawings and paste on the table in the appropriate place.

All shapes should appear in each column and row, but no shape should appear twice in a column or row.

Good luck!

PS- To save paper and help our planet, you can print on used pages, on the blank side ♥

Easy and medium levels

 

Coloring pages of Christmas

Christmas​​ coloring Pages.   Coloring pages for Christmas​. Here are some coloring pages for Christmas: Christmas trees, Santa Claus, Reindeers, gifts. To print the coloring page of Christmas, click on the coloring page and then Ctrl + P. The printable coloring sheets of Christmas are for free and you can come back to print and color again and again. Below you will find Christmas coloring pages which you can paint for your enjoyment. Choose the coloring page of Christmas you want to paint, print and paint for your enjoyment. Have fun and Merry Christmas!

Angels coloring pages

Merry Christmas Fanny Dolly

Happy CHristmas Fanny Dolly

Santa Claus

Cute deer

Cat and Christmas Tree

Christmas Ball Ornament- Amazon

Fireplace and gifts

Santa Claus 

Teddy bear and gifts

Sudoku games for children- Christmas theme

Christmas worksheets - English reading and writing

Worksheets and coloring pages for Christmas. The pages are suitable for children in pre-school kindergarten and for children in the lower grades. The theme that the worksheets focus on is Christmas and they practice reading and writing the most prominent symbols of Christmas and winter, Christmas clothes and food.

PS- To save paper and help our planet, you can print on used pages, on the blank side ♥

write the words under the pictures

Complete the words

write the words under the pictures

Cut and glue

CVC words- write the words under the pictures

CVC words- write the words under the pictures

Christmas writing and spelling

Christmas writing and spelling

Christmas writing and spelling

The list of words that appear on the worksheets: cat, pie, Christmas tree, candy, hat, yarn, star, gift, snowman, mistletoe, fireplace, Christmas ball, sock, sleigh, glove, Santa Claus, Ginger cookie, Happy Christmas, dog, rat, cup, box, bag, tag, boy, pot, bow, mad, sun, bed, run, sad, kid, mug, fire, sofa, moon, girl, deer, milk, cake, bear, oven, candle, elf, 

Boxing Day - December 26

Boxing Day is a secular holiday celebrated on the day after Christmas, December 26, and its tradition is to give Christmas presents to people in low socioeconomic status, that is, to those who cannot afford to give Christmas presents. . Boxing Day is especially common in the UK and in countries that were once part of the British Empire. The name boxing comes from the word "boxing" - packaging, after the holiday gift packaging.

The origin of the holiday is in Britain, at a time when the servants would work throughout the Christmas in the service of the nobles, prepare and serve them the meals, clean after them, etc.), and only a day after Christmas would they receive leave and gifts from the masters. Christmas presents were called "Christmas boxes".

Another possible explanation for the origin of the holiday is a story according to which on this day priests broke the boxes for collecting donations in the churches and distributed the money to the poor.

Nowadays it is customary on Boxing Day to give annual donations to charity, and in addition, in the UK in particular, it is a day of many discounts and promotions in stores, so it has become a day of shopping.

How to celebrate Boxing Day?

You can donate to charities or charities or just buy a gift for someone you love, and you can also take advantage of this day to shop at sites abroad that give significant discounts like asos, amazon, ebay, Aliexpress etc.

December 26 is also Kwanzaa Day

Eggnog Day - December 24

Eggnog is a drink that is based on milk and eggs and is usually drunk in the US and Canada during the Christmas season, which lasts from the end of November to the end of December.

This Egg liqueur is a rich milk drink, full of cream, sweetened and frothy spiced with nutmeg or cinnamon, which is sometimes prepared with distilled spirits such as brandy, rum, whiskey or bourbon.

The egg liqueur evolved from Posset, a medieval European drink made from hot milk mixed with wine or ale to which spices are added. The drink was common only among the nobility because of its expensive ingredients that prevented the villagers from drinking it. In the cities the common people had no milk, and only the aristocracy could obtain it.

The first time the name "Egg Nog" was used was in 1775, when the clergyman and philologist Jonathan Butcher of Maryland wrote a poem about him that was surprisingly not published until 30 years after his death.

And this is the song he wrote:

“Fog-drams in the morn,

or better still eggnogg.

At night hot-suppings,

and at mid-day, grogg.

My palate can regale”

The first printed use of the term was in 1788 in a New Jersey newspaper on March 26, which referred to a young man drinking a glass of eggnog.

In the early 19th century, the drink came to the United States. Because of the taxes on brandy and wine, they used to make the bromine drink from the Caribbean. The drink soon became the popular Christmas drink in the United States.

Beginning in the 1960s, a commercial version of the alcoholic beverage, or a non-alcoholic version, began to be sold. During this time they began to serve the drink cold.

How to celebrate Eggnog Day?

You can make an eggnog at home, or buy it. If you have passed the age limit for alcohol, you can add alcohol to it.

December 24 is also Micronesia's Independence Day

Worksheets for Christmas

Christmas worksheets - English reading and writing - Suitable for beginning reading, CVC words

Christmas Sudoku for kids -Cut and Glue

Christmas Math Worksheets - count and color 0-10

PS- To save paper and help our planet, you can print on used pages, on the blank side ♥