12 Days of Christmas
This is the gift on day 3
What is "3 French Hens"?
This is how many inches of snow are in 3 1/4 feet
What is 39 inches?
3(12) + 1/4(12) = 36 + 3 = 39 inches
This is the temperature rain turns to snow
What is 32 degrees F
This is how many inches tall a Christmas tree is that is 9 feet tall
What is 108 inches?
12" * 9 = 108 inches
In the song "Frosty the Snowman" this is what his eyes are made out of
What is coal?
This is the gift on day 7
What is "7 Swans a Swimming" ?
This is how many feet are in 122 inches of snow
What is 10 1/6 feet of snow?
122/12 = 10 2/12 = 10 1/6 feet
The low temperatures for York, Maine for the week between Christmas and New Year are the following: -4, 0, 8, -5, 14, 11, -1. This is the average low temperature for the week
What is 3.2 or 3 degrees?
You want to hang Christmas lights around the perimeter of the roof of your house. The width of your house is 22 feet, the length of your house is 31 feet. This is how many feet of lights you will need in total.
What is 106 feet?
Perimeter = 22 + 22 + 31 + 31 = 106 feet total
This is the only number in "Jingle Bells"
What is one?
This is the gift on day 1
What is "A Partridge in a Pear Tree" ?
In December it snowed a total of 18 inches, in January it snowed a total of 54 inches, in February it snowed twice as much as in December. This is how many feet total it snowed between December and February.
What is 9 feet?
18 + 54 + 2(18)
18 + 54 + 36 = 108 inches
108 / 12 = 9 feet
This is the temperature that water turns to ice
What is 32 degrees F?
White Christmas lights are 50 bulbs per strand, multi-colored lights are 75 bulbs per strand. You want a total of 225 bulbs on your tree, can you achieve this with both types of lights and just 4 strands?
Yes, 3 white bulb strands = 3(5) = 150
1 multi colored strand = 75 bulbs
150 + 75 = 225 bulbs total
In the carol "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" this is the number of times he checks his list
What is twice or 2?
This is the gift on day 9
What is "Nine Ladies Dancing" ?
It snows 1.25 inches every day in January. It snows 1.5 inches every day in February. This is the month where it snows the least
What is January?
31 * 1.25 = 38.75 inches
28 * 1.5 = 42 inches
This is the difference between the boiling point of water and the freezing point of water
What is 68 degrees?
100= boiling point of water
32 = freezing point of water
100 - 32 = 68 degrees difference
You want to wrap a box that has the following dimensions: 8" long, 11" wide and 15" high. This is the total surface area that you will need to cover
What is 746 inches?
8 * 11= 88 * 2 = 176
8 * 15=120 * 2 = 240
11 * 15 = 165 * 2 = 330
176 + 240 + 330 = 746 inches
This is the number of times that "La" is sung after "Fa" in the carol "Deck The Halls"
What is 8?
This is the gift on day 12
What is "12 Drummers Drumming" ?
Snow melts at a rate of 2.5 inches per day in April. If you received 6.75 feet of snow over the months of January through March, this is how many days it will take it to all melt
What is 32.4 days?
6.75 feet = 81 inches
81/2.5 = 32.4 days
The temperature was -7 at 7am, it rose 11 degrees by noon, it rose another 5 degrees by 5 pm and dropped 21 degrees in the next 3 hours. This is the temperature at 8 pm
What is -12 degrees?
This is the gift box with the largest volume:
a cube with side lengths of 9 mm
or
a rectangular prism with a length of 8 mm, height of 5 mm and a width of 18 mm
What is a cube ?
V = L * H * W
V = 8 * 5 * 18 = 720 mm cubed
These are the names of all the reindeer in the song "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer"
What are: Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen & Rudolph