Advent Calendar 16 Dec: Christmas at School
What did you or your ancestors do to celebrate Christmas at school? Were you ever in a Christmas Pageant?
We would have "holiday parties" at school (usually a potluck lunch thing) but never Christmas events and we never had the traditional pageant either. Honestly, when I was little I was so wrapped up in my birthday, Christmas and going on vacation from school to really pay attention to any holiday activities that were going on (I went to a non-traditional school until high school so participating in most of the events and goings-on was optional and therefore, easy to ignore). We did do "gingerbread parties" at school where we would make gingerbread houses. I remember one year I made a candy "security camera" for my gingerbread house and a reporter from the local paper was there and thought it was so cute that I got a mention in my local paper. I think I was about five or six and it was my first time "in print." I still have the article somewhere... I don't know that my parents or ancestors did much for Christmas at school, if they did I've never heard about it (yet).
We would have "holiday parties" at school (usually a potluck lunch thing) but never Christmas events and we never had the traditional pageant either. Honestly, when I was little I was so wrapped up in my birthday, Christmas and going on vacation from school to really pay attention to any holiday activities that were going on (I went to a non-traditional school until high school so participating in most of the events and goings-on was optional and therefore, easy to ignore). We did do "gingerbread parties" at school where we would make gingerbread houses. I remember one year I made a candy "security camera" for my gingerbread house and a reporter from the local paper was there and thought it was so cute that I got a mention in my local paper. I think I was about five or six and it was my first time "in print." I still have the article somewhere... I don't know that my parents or ancestors did much for Christmas at school, if they did I've never heard about it (yet).
Christmas parties were always fun for the mothers and teachers to pull off. I never heard of "potluck" parties, but that sounds great. Different times, and different places. Thanks.
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