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• Introduction and General History of the Christmas season with links.
• German Christmas and Winter Traditions and Moravian Christmas Traditions in Indiana
• Teaching activities and exercises for immediate classroom use! Also the legal issue of teaching about holidays.
  
• The season of Advent, calendars, decorations and other related feast days before and after Christmas Day.
• Christmas Customs & their Pagan Origins: Nikolaus & his helpers, the Xmas tree, pre-Christian and Germanic roots.
  
• The Legend of St. Nikolaus: Nikolaustag, the historical Nikolaus and the development of the Santa Claus figure.
  
• Christmas Markets in Germany and also in Chicago and other American cities and towns.
  
• The Christmas Tree - Tannenbaum, arts and crafts, decorations, pickles, and symbols like the Christmas Rose
  
• A traditional German Christmas Meal, the story of Gingerbread and links to Xmas recipes, customs, food & drink.
  
• A Christmas Play plus songs, poems and texts. Stille Nacht - Silent Night: the origin of the song and the text.
  
• The Story of the Nutcracker plus traditional arts/crafts, crib sets, smokers, pyramids, gifts, etc.
• Other Online Christmas resources. My links to comprehensive, international, multimedia sites, postcards, etc. It's all here!
  
• German resource - Wissenwertes und Brauchtum A-Z from Christkindls Weihnachtsseiten

In Weihnachtszeiten In Weihnachtszeiten reis' ich gern Und bin dem Kinderjubel fern Und geh' in Wald und Schnee allein. Und manchmal, doch nicht jedes Jahr, Trifft meine gute Stunde ein, Dass ich von allem, was da war, Auf einen Augenblick gesunde Und irgendwo im Wald für eine Stunde Der Kindheit Duft erfühle tief im Sinn Und wieder Knabe bin. Hermann Hesse

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