Top Fun Facts About Christmas For Kids

Christmas is a magical time for kids. During this time of the year, all the families get together and enjoy the traditions of Christmas and children are showered with love and gifts. However,there is a lot more to Christmas than just gifts and decorating the house. It’s an age-old celebration with centuries of traditions. Let’s use this opportunity to increase our knowledge and teach the kids some really fun and strange facts about this wonderful Holiday.

1) The Dutch Santa

In the Netherlands, Sinterklaas (the Dutch version of Santa Claus) arrives from Spain, not from the North Pole. Another strange thing about this is that the helpers are not adorable hard-working elves: they are black-faced boys and girls who can steal your kids if they misbehave, and bring them to back Spain for punishment.

2) Rudolph the Reindeer was a Marketing Gimmick

The Montgomery Ward department store created Rudolph the Reindeer as a marketing gimmick to encourage children to buy their Christmas coloring books.

3) Rudolph’s original nose was not Red

The original Rudolph did not have a red nose. In that day and age, red noses were seen as an indicator of chronic alcoholism and Montgomery Ward didn’t want him to look like a drunkard.

4) Christmas was not supposed to be on Dec 25th

Though Christmas celebrates the birth of Jesus Christ, there is no mention of December 25 in the Bible. The popular theory is that the date was picked because it coincided with the pagan festival of Saturnalia, which honored the agricultural god Saturn by gift-giving.

5) How does Poor Santa Delivers all the gifts in one Night

Santa stretches time like a rubber band, in order to deliver all the gifts in one night. Given that Santa only has has 36 hours to deliver gifts (adding the time differences), his average speed would need to be approximately 600 miles per second. Larry Silverberg, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at North Carolina State University, suggests that Santa uses relativity clouds to get the work done. Relativity clouds, based on relative physics, allow Santa to stretch time like a rubber band which gives him months to deliver gifts, while only a few minutes pass for the rest of us.

6) Origin Of Christmas Tree

The origin of Christmas trees goes all the way back to ancient Egyptians and Romans, who marked the winter solstice with evergreens as a reminder of spring. However, it wasn’t until Prince Albert of Germany introduced the tree to his new wife, Queen Victoria of England, that the tradition actually started.

7) Thank Your Postman next time around

Between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day last year, the U.S. Postal Service delivered an estimated 850 million packages — in addition to 15 billion pieces of mail.

8) Christmas Holiday

Christmas as a “day off” is a recent innovation. As late as 1850, December 25 was not a legal holiday in New England, so stores were open, business were open, and children were expected to attend school.

9) Is Christmas really a Family Holiday ?

Christmas is only recently a “family” holiday. Christmas was originally celebrated as an adult form of “trick or treat,” but with the “treat” consisting of booze and the threatened “trick” consisting of destruction of property.

10) Who Celebrates Christmas

Christmas is no longer a christian holiday. In fact, about 90% of US celebrates Christmas while only 51% of those people who celebrate attend church.

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