Christmas Stories and Fables!
This magical household figure moves from room to room, helping Santa by making sure children are being good.
What is Elf on the Shelf?
The lyrics to this timeless Christmas song describe a wintery ride in a one-horse open sleigh, but never once mention the word “Christmas.”
What is Jingle Bells?
This was originally written as a Thanksgiving song.
Will Ferrell played the oversized North Pole adoptee who sets off to find his father in this 2003 Christmas classic.
What is Elf?
These classic Christmas sweets begin as striped loaves before a machine pulls and twists it into thin, hook-shaped treats.
What are candy canes?
Children leave _______ and ____ for Santa, and _______ of his reindeer on Christmas Eve.
Cookies, milk and carrots
BONUS:
Draw Frosty the Snowman complete with:
Corn cob pipe
button nose
two eyes made out of coal
You have 30 seconds
DOUBLE POINTS
DOUBLE POINTS!
This 2004 animated Christmas feature was an adaptation of an illustrated storybook by Chris Van Allsburg. This movie starred Tom Hanks.
What is Polar Express?
A tradition that started during the Great Depression, was real treat for kids to have this fruit placed into their Christmas stocking on Christmas Eve.
What are oranges?
Children who misbehave may find a lump of this black rock in their stockings on Christmas morning.
What is coal?
Finish the words to the Christmas poem Twas' The Night Before Christmas
He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle,
And away they all flew like the down of a thistle.
But I heard him exclaim, ere he drove out of sight,
HAPPY CHRISTMAS TO ALL, ___ __ ___ _ ____ _____!
And to all a good night!
In “Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer,” Grandma had been drinking too much of this festive holiday beverage.
What is eggnog?
This “Home Alone” character fends off a pair of robbers by building slapstick traps in his house.
DOUBLE POINTS if you know his first and last names.
Who is Kevin McAlister
What is the name of this festive drink made from eggs, cream, spices and rum?
Eggnog
BONUS:
Dance along to Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy from the Nutcracker as best as you can for 30 seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zV1qLYukTH8
DOUBLE POINTS
This dark fairy tale about a brother, a sister, and a witch they meet in the woods, was the inspiration for gingerbread houses.
What is Hansel and Gretel?
Fill in the missing lyrics
Chestnuts roasting on an open fire
____ _____ nipping at your nose
Who is Jack Frost?
Jim Carrey’s grumpy green gremlin lays siege to this town in the 2000 film “How the Grinch Stole Christmas.”
What is Whoville?
BONUS:
Do your best drawing of a gingerbread house.
You have 30 seconds.
DOUBLE POINTS.
This type of calendar contains pockets filled with treats, one for each day of December through Christmas Day.
What is advent calendar?
These three words are what best describe the Grinch, “and I quote.”
What is "Stink, Stank, and Stunk"?
The song Mele Kalikimaka is about Christmas in which place?
Hint: It is a state of the United States?
What is Hawaii?
There is an ongoing debate online about whether this action flick starring Bruce Willis and Alan Rickman that takes place at Nakatomi towers is actually a Christmas film.
What is Die Hard?
In “We Wish You a Merry Christmas”, the carolers threaten to stay put until they receive this proper English dish.
What is figgy pudding?
In the “Twelve Days of Christmas”, The singer’s true love gives them five of these on day 5.
What are golden rings?