THE BIBLE
BEFORE LARRY, MOE, AND CURLY THERE WERE THESE BIBLICAL CHARACTERS WHO TRAVELED FAR TO MEET BABY JESUS.
THREE WISE MEN
WHILE YOU WERE "DREAMING OF A WHITE CHRISTMAS" THESE GLISTENED, WHILE CHILDREN LISTENED.
TREETOPS
YOU'LL SHOOT YOUR EYE OUT THEY SAID ABOUT THIS TOY IN "A CHRISTMAS STORY".
RED RYDER BB GUN
THE "IT" TOY OF 1996 HAD CHILDREN *AND* THE TOY LAUGHING.
TICKLE ME ELMO
THIS HANUKKAH TOY WAS USED AS A DECOY AFTER THE TORAH WAS OUTLAWED.
DREIDEL
IN THIS LITTLE TOWN, JOSEPH WAS BORN AND RAISED.
BETHLEHEM
FROSTY WAS A JOLLY SOUL THEY SAY, BUT HE WOULDN'T COME TO LIFE UNTIL HE HAD THIS.
A MAGIC HAT
IN THE 1946 CHRISTMAS CLASSIC "IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE" - GEORGE PROMISES THIS TO HIS SOON TO BE WIFE MARY.
THE MOON
THIS POPULAR GAME, ORIGINALLY CALLED "PRETZEL", HAD FOLKS LOOKING LIKE ONE AS THEY PLAYED.
TWISTER
FROM SIDE TO SIDE YOU LIGHT THE CANDLES, BUT *THIS* SIDE IS WHERE YOU START.
RIGHT SIDE
THIS RULER OF JUDEA BECAME THREATENED WHEN JESUS WAS BORN AND SENT TO HAVE HIM KILLED.
KING HEROD
THIS FAMED FEMALE SINGER WAS THE FIRST TO RECORD FRANK SINATRA'S HIT SONG "HAVE YOURSELF A MERRY LITTLE CHRISTMAS".
JUDY GARLAND
IN "RUDOLPH THE RED NOSED REINDEER" HERMY THE ELF DREAMED WANTED TO TRADE IN TOY-MAKING FOR THIS NEW PROFESSION.
DENTIST
MAKE A PICTURE AND SHAKE. THIS WAS THE TOY OF THE BABY BOOM ERA RELEASED IN 1960.
ETCH A SKETCH
THIS U.S. PRESIDENT BECAME THE FIRST IN OFFICE TO LIGHT A MENORAH.
BILL CLINTON
JESUS HAD MANY NAMES IN THE BIBLE. THIS ONE MEANS "GOD IS WITH US".
EMMANUEL
ON THE 8TH DAY OF CHRISTMAS MY TRUE LOVE GAVE TO ME...
8 MAIDS OF MILKING
THE MAYOR OF "WHOVILLE" GIFTS THIS MEAN PRESENT TO THE GRINCH IN AN ATTEMPT TO EMBARRASS HIM.
AN ELECTRIC RAZOR
BABYLAND GENERAL HOSPITAL WAS THE BIRTHPLACE OF THESE POPULAR LINE OF TOYS IN THE 1980S.
CABBAGE PATCH KIDS
THIS HOLIDAY BEGINS ON THE DAY AFTER CHRISTMAS AND LASTS FOR 7 DAYS.
KWANZAA
LATER IN LIFE, JESUS MET BY HIS COUSIN JOHN, WAS BAPTIZED HERE.
RIVER JORDAN
HE STINK, STANK, AND STUNK - AND ALSO HAD THESE IN HIS TEETH.
TERMITES
NOBODY LIKES A SCROOGE - EXCEPT FOR THIS MAN, WHO WAS ONCE HIS PARTNER.
JACOB MARLEY
THIS TOY CREATED IN 1952 DREW INSPIRATION FROM YOUR YOUR KITCHEN AND BECAME EVEN MORE POPULAR AFTER APPEARING IN DISNEY'S FIRST EVER PIXAR MOVIE.
MR. POTATO HEAD
INSTEAD OF GIFTS, JEWISH CHILDREN ORIGINALLY WERE GIVEN SMALL AMOUNTS OF MONEY AS THEIR HANUKKAH GIFT - IN YIDDISH KNOWN AS THIS.
GELT