Christmas for Kids
Saturday, 12.23.06 @ 12:06AM 
It doesn’t happen often here, but it’s Christmas, so I’ve got an entirely kid-friendly post today. I think adults will enjoy these links and jokes also. Safe for work, too! That is, unless you are supposed to be working. These links would also be the kind you could share with your relatives. You might think twice before luring them into reading this site everyday, because I'll be returning to my regular over-18 material after Christmas.
Last year I featured a picture of Princess in her elf costume in a Christmas post, so this year it’s Gothgrrl’s turn. Here she is in her Santa Claus getup.
Follow along with Santa’s holiday activities and memories on Santa's Holiday Blog. You’ll especially love this story from Santa’s childhood.
Forbes Magazine had to take Santa Claus off their list of the Richest Fictional Characters (where he had the #1 slot). Go here to find out why!
Peruse the history of Santa Claus with the Santa Claus Timeline. (via the Presurfer)
Help Santa get in shape with these exercise games: the sprint, long jump, hurdles, and ski jump in Winter Workout. Its fun! (via Ursi’s Blog)
Shake up this Christmas Snowglobe!
Or you can make your own, with this generator from Glass Giant. (via the Generator Blog)
Here's another way to make your own snowglobe, with your choice of colors! Give it a shake!
Click Here To Get A Snowglobe
Jacqie Lawson has a great selection of nice ecards. This one is called the Sugar Plum Fairy.
This is a good one to share with someone, maybe even the kids: Christmas Zoom.
Direct the band in this Christmas flash greeting by clicking on or off each character. Both funny and addictive!
Norad tracks Santa
. Bookmark this for the kids for December 24th. The downloads page has a lot of fun stuff.
Looks like Santa’s going green this year! US Transportation Secretary Peters Certifies World’s First Hydrogen Powered Santa Sleigh To Fly Through U.S. Airspace This Holiday Season.
There's still time to email Santa throught the North Pole website. For a fast response, try this site. (Thanks, Wendy!)
The classic Elf Snowball game. Try NOT to hit Santa. (Thanks, Dawn!)
Decorate your virtual Christmas tree!
An old, but seriously beautiful Christmas ecard. Clicking one of the animations will lead you from page to page, just be sure to give it some load time.
Help Santa deliver gifts in the game Santa’s Deed. Its harder than it seems! But its rather artfully animated. (via Ursi’s Blog)
Everything you didn’t know about the TV special Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. Fascinating reading!
Decorate a Christmas tree and play a game, too with Grow Ornament. I can’t explain it to you since I don’t really understand it myself.
What happens when a tree ornament comes to life on Christmas Eve? You’ll enjoy finding out in Santa’s Christmas Flight! (Thanks, Linda!)
Solve the puzzles in Alfie’s North Pole Adventure. (via Ursi’s Blog)
You know how some people sing the wrong words to Christmas carols? Thats called a mondegreen. Here’s a list of the funniest ones.
White Christmas by the Drifters, performed by Santa and his reindeer. A classic!
KIDS ON CHRISTMAS
At a nativity play our young granddaughter Charlotte watched the three kings deliver gold, frankincense and myrrh and asked: "Is the Franky Scents like aftershave?"
We took our grandchildren with some of their pals to a carol service. One of them asked: "Where's Carol?"
Last Christmas my son said thoughtfully: "I hate to think what Father Christmas spends on Sellotape."
A friend’s two little girls were looking at a picture of the Virgin Mary holding Baby Jesus. "That's Mary," said the older girl, "and that's her baby Jesus in her arms."
"Where's Jesus's dad then?" asked her little sister.
"Oh he is the one taking the picture," replied her sister.
I asked my young grandson what he would like Santa to bring him. He produced a rather long list. When I commented on the length of it, he replied: "It's just in case this is the last year I believe in him."
Jane, my three-yearold, showed me a drawing that included red squiggles which she said were rhubarb.
I must have looked confused as she added scornfully: "Rhubarb the Red-Nosed Reindeer!"
With much ceremony I sat down with my four-year-old son to write his first letter to Santa. I asked if there was anything special he would like Santa's elves to make for him. He told me: "Just write down EVERYTHING."
My granddaughter seemed to lose interest in opening her Advent calendar after the first day. Then her mum found out that she'd already opened all the boxes to eat the chocs and closed them up again.
When my daughter went to see Santa, he asked what her name was. She said: "Angela. What's yours?"
Without thinking, he replied: "Bill..."
At my grandson's nativity play, the third wise man brought the house down when he marched up to the manger and bellowed: "Frank sent this!"
My daughter was playing Mary and forgot her lines so she ad-libbed, telling Joseph: 'I'm having a baby - oh, and it's not yours...'
At the carol concert my little son's strident voice could clearly be heard singing: "While shepherds washed their socks so bright..."
When my grand-daughter Molly, aged five, visited Santa, he asked what she would like. She said: " I can't tell you. It's a secret."
I was at my friend's house when her six-year-old son poked his head round the door and said: "Mum, you know I wanted a bike for Christmas? Well I don't need it now. I just found one behind your wardrobe!"
My son asked me to make him a costume for the Christmas play, but I was surprised when he said he was a leopard in it. I assumed it was some kind of Lion King or Jungle Book theme. Next day I checked with his teacher who looked bemused and said it was a traditional nativity play. He was a shepherd.
I took a friend's small son to visit Santa. Tom asked Santa: "Are you from Lapland?"
"Yes I am," replied Santa.
Tom said: "Those tissues on your table are from Tesco. Did you bring them with you or buy them here?"
My four-year-old granddaughter was telling me all about the gifts given to baby Jesus by the Wise Men. I asked what the shepherds took. She thought for a bit then asked: "Was it pies?"
My nine-year-old son was learning the world's capital cities.
"What's Istanbul the capital of ?" he asked me.
Hinting at Turkey, I said: "We eat a lot of it at Christmas."
"Greece," he replied.
So much for my cooking, then.
When I took my three-year old niece to the pet shop to get a whistle as a Christmas gift for my disobedient dog, she stared wide-eyed and asked: "Will he be able to blow it?"
In my granddaughter's nativity play, the crib collapsed as Mary placed the baby Jesus in it. Quick as a flash the headmistress stepped up and asked: "Is there a carpenter in the house? Besides Joseph?"
My daughter Katie was chattering away for ages to Santa but he didn't seem to be understanding what it was that she wanted for Christmas. Jumping off his knee, she chirped: "I know. I'll come back tomorrow with the Argos catalogue!"
My three-year-old son was learning the Christmas story at nursery school ready for the nativity play. He came home and told me very proudly that: "Jesus was born in a stabiliser."
At my grandson's school Nativity play, when the innkeeper opened the curtain to show Mary and Joseph in the stable, a little voice in the audience shouted: "Where's the TV, Mum?"
I asked my four-year-old nephew if he wanted to go with me to see Santa Claus at a local store. I thought he would jump at the chance but he said: "No, I'm going to watch TV. We can see Santa Claus when he comes down the chimney with my toys on Christmas Eve."
How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss
Thought for today: Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall. ~Larry Wilde
Reader Comments (12)
Happy holidays Miss C.
On that note, how about Jeff Tracy? He owns an island in the Pacific, has built massive recue vehicles including a space rocket and a space station.
Have a WONDERFUL Christmas Miss C, and a VERY Happy New Year.
Merry Christmas to the kid in you and me too!!!
Tracy has to share that with five sons, one wacky pseudo-Polynesian single parent family, and a rather geeky fellow of dubious intentions with regards to the sons, and probably had to sleep with some English baroness to get the money...
F-A-B
*and yes, I own the model of Tracy Island*
FreeThinker
http://freethoughtguy.blogspot.com
John
Have a great Christmas! :)
Thanks for the ecard. Enjoy your one-handed coffee! I'm happy to hoist my pot up the old-fashioned way. It's about the only exercise I get.