12 Days of Christmas
My true love sent this to me on the FIRST day of Christmas.
What is a partridge in a pear tree?
The article of clothing you hang on the mantle of your fireplace as a place for smaller presents.
What is a stocking?
Santa's wife.
Who is Mrs. Claus?
The Spanish translation to "Merry Christmas".
Feliz Navidad
Feliz Navidad
Feliz Navidad
Prospero Año y Felicidad.
I wanna wish you a Merry Christmas
I wanna wish you a Merry Christmas
I wanna wish you a Merry Christmas
From the bottom of my heart.
The number of days and nights Hanukkah is celebrated.
What is 8?
Finish the lyric:
On the third day of Christmas, my true love sent to me THREE ________
What are French hens?
The holiday that is celebrated on December 26th.
What is Boxing Day?
The fictional character, the miserly protagonist of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol (1843).
Who is Ebenezer Scrooge?
This is what the Jackson 5 say they saw their mommy doing last night.
I saw Mommy kissing Santa Claus (kissing, kissing Santa Claus)
Underneath the mistletoe last night
She didn't see me creep
Down the stairs to have a peep
She thought that I was tucked up
In my bedroom, fast asleep
Orthodox Christians celebrate Christmas on January 7th because they follow this calendar.
What is the Julian calendar?
Finish the lyric:
On the ninth day of Christmas, my true love sent to me
Nine ladies _____
Eight _____ _______
On the ninth day of Christmas, my true love sent to me
Nine ladies dancing
Eight maids a-milking
Everyone in England gathers around the television to hear this person's speech on Christmas Day.
Who is the monarch? (It used to be The Queen). The Christmas message was started by Queen Elizabeth II's grandfather, King George V. King George had reigned since 1910, but it was not until 1932 that he delivered his first Christmas message.
The original title of "The Grinch" movie released in 1966.
What is "How the Grinch Stole Christmas!"?
When it's snowing on Christmas day, this is what we call it.
I'm dreaming of a White Christmas
Just like the ones I used to know
Where the treetops glisten and children listen
To hear sleigh bells in the snow.
The winter festival that is celebrated by the Wiccans and many other Pagans in the Northern Hemisphere. Also known as Yule, the Shortest Day, and the Longest Night of the year.
What is the winter solstice?
Name the last three gifts in the song 12 Days of Christmas.
What are the Lords, the Pipers, and the Drummers?
The calendar that is used to count down for Christmas and is traditionally filled with different types of chocolate.
What is an advent calendar?
A 1965 animated television special. It is the first TV special based on the comic strip Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz.
What is "A Charlie Brown Christmas"?
According to the Everly Brothers, this is what people should do with their halls when the season comes to be jolly.
Deck the halls with boughs of holly, Fa la la la la la la la!
'Tis the season to be jolly, Fa la la la la la la la!
Don we now our gay apparel, Fa la la la la la la la!
Troll the ancient Yuletide carol, Fa la la la la la la la!
The annual celebration of the African-American culture, culminating in a communal feast, and is based on African harvest festival traditions from various parts of West and Southeast Africa.
What is Kwanzaa?
The total number of gifts my true love sent to me by the end of the 12 days of Christmas.
How many are 364? One for every day of the year except for Christmas Day!
By the end of the 12 days of Christmas, my true love had sent me: 12 Partridges, 22 Turtle doves, 30 French hens, 36 Calling birds, 40 Rings, 42 Geese, 42 Swans, 40 Maids, 36 Ladies, 30 Lords, 22 Pipers, 12 Drummers
The ceremony that is performed by the Pope on Christmas Eve in Rome.
What is midnight mass?
Name all of Santa's reindeer. Hint: there are 9.
Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen, and (drum roll) Rudolph.
Bing Crosby said that he felt like Christmas was coming when he went on by saying what children wanted as presents.
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas
Ev'rywhere you go;
Take a look at the five-and-ten, glistening once again
With candy canes and silver lanes aglow.
The Buddhist holiday that commemorates the day that Gautama Buddha is said to have attained enlightenment some 2,600 years ago. Buddhists tend to spend this day praying and meditating.
What is Bodhi Day? "Bodhi" means enlightenment in Sanskrit and Pali.