- Christmas is an annual Christian holiday held on December 25th celebrating the birth of Jesus.
- Christmas trees are also known as the Yule-tree.
- Christmas trees are evergreen trees, usually either a fir tree, pine tree or spruce tree.
- It is believed that decorating Christmas trees originated in 16th century Germany when Christians would bring decorated trees into their homes.
- Some people say the Christmas season officially begins when Santa arrives at the end of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade.
- Did you ever wonder where X-Mas came from? X means Christ in Greek so to shorten the word Christmas we sometimes use X-Mas.
- In 1836 Alabama became the first state in the US to declare Christmas a legal holiday.
- Oklahoma became the last state to declare Christmas a legal holiday in 1907.
- In June of 1870 Christmas became a federal holiday in the US.
- Christmas trees were first decorated with foods such as apples, nuts and dates.
- In the 18th century Christmas trees began being decorated with candles.
- Electric Christmas tree lights were first used in 1895.
- Did you know that giving presents were once banned by the Catholic Church. It was believed that gift giving was connected to paganism.
- If you received all the gifts from the song “The Twelve Days of Christmas” you would have 364 presents.
- Do you know why we say the Twelve Days of Christmas? It is believed that it took the 3 kings 12 days to find baby Jesus.
- The song Jingle Bells was written by James Pierpont in 1857. It was originally called “One Horse Open Sleigh” and was made for Thanksgiving.
- Many years ago in England a traditional Christmas dinner included a pig head served with mustard.
- The tradition of naughty children getting a lump of coal in their stocking comes from Italy.
- Did you know that tinsel was once made of real silver! It was invented in Germany in 1610.
- There are two islands named Christmas. Christmas Island (formerly Kiritimati) in the Pacific Ocean and Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean.
Thats it for now! We hope you enjoy!!!