Alphabet Game - CHRISTMAS

[Dorothy Donn]

Q = Quince - a fruit that might be used in Christmas cooking, such as in jams or jellies, often served with cheese as part of a festive platter.

[Michele]

R = Roasting as in 🎵 Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire.🎵

[Ann Seeber]

S = Stocking - we hang empty stockings for Santa or his helpers to fill on Christmas Eve. And if you find one filled with coal instead of gifts you know that person has been deemed "naughty."

Edited December 9, 2023 by Ann Seeber

[Julie Magerka]

3 hours ago, Ann Seeber said:

S = Stocking - we hang empty stockings for Santa or his helpers to fill on Christmas Eve. And if you find one filled with coal instead of gifts you know that person has been deemed "naughty."

When I was young, my stocking always had a piece of coal at the bottom of it! My father had a ready supply of it in his shop. He was a blacksmith/welder who used a forge fuelled by coal. It's such a precious memory.

[Julie Magerka]

T = twigs (and branches) used for decorating

[Julie Magerka]

5 hours ago, Michele said:

R = Roasting as in 🎵 Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire.🎵

Never done that, have you? But it would be fun.

[Lynda DiGregor]

S-Scrooge

[Michele]

10 minutes ago, Julie Magerka said:

Never done that, have you? But it would be fun.

I never have, but during the holidays as a kid, I remember street vendors in NYC doing it. I imagine some still do.

[Anne Lamp]

U = Unwrapping presents   Years ago we opened presents on  Christmas Eve at my Grandparents house where the whole family gathered.  One tradition was to make a pile of all the wrapping paper and get a picture of the youngest baby or  child in the middle of the pile.

[Bonnie Ballentine]

V = Vixen

[Emerald Jay]

W - wishes

[Lynda DiGregor]

X-Xristos  The Greek word for Christ also referred to as Christos

[Bonnie Ballentine]

Y = Yorkshire Pudding

[Dorothy Donn]

Z = Zamboni While not directly related to Christmas, is often seen during the season at ice skating rinks, smoothing the ice for skaters.

Image enclosed;  The fourth Zamboni ever built — they simply called it "No. 4" — sits enshrined in the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame in Eveleth, Minnesota, along with its creator and inventor, Frank Zamboni. It stands, fully restored, as a symbol of the integral part this ice-resurfacing machine has played in professional hockey, as well as ice-skating shows and in ice rinks around the country.

 

[Sharla]

A = Adorn

[Corrie Kinkel]

11 hours ago, Dorothy Donn said:

Z = Zamboni While not directly related to Christmas, is often seen during the season at ice skating rinks, smoothing the ice for skaters.

Image enclosed;  The fourth Zamboni ever built — they simply called it "No. 4" — sits enshrined in the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame in Eveleth, Minnesota, along with its creator and inventor, Frank Zamboni. It stands, fully restored, as a symbol of the integral part this ice-resurfacing machine has played in professional hockey, as well as ice-skating shows and in ice rinks around the country.

 

Not only in the States, here in the Netherlands those machines are used too. We are a nation of speedskating not so much on icehockey and we have and are hosting a lot world speedskating events.

[Corrie Kinkel]

B = Bows to decorate gifts, the tree etc.

[Julie Magerka]

C = candles that used to be put on trees

[Bonnie Ballentine]

A = Advent calendar 

[Emerald Jay]

D - Dashing (through the snow)

[Bonnie Ballentine]

E = Emmanuel

[Julie Magerka]

F = feasting (which we are fortunate to be able to do)

[Julie Magerka]

On 12/9/2023 at 9:32 AM, Michele said:

I never have, but during the holidays as a kid, I remember street vendors in NYC doing it. I imagine some still do.

Any time I've visited the Big Apple in the colder weatheer, I've always bought a bag of fresh-roasted chestnuts. But it's been quite a while since the last time.

[Bonnie Ballentine]

G = garland

[Ann Seeber]

H = Happy