It becomes that person's responsibility to pass it along, like a hot potato, the next year. Wrap up your most egregious or inexplicable Christmas present from last year (sad-eyed ceramic cat, anyone?) for an unsuspecting family member. The box rotates like that until it has made the rounds of all the friends, ending up back with Anna, complete with personal notes from her pals and their gifts to her. The first friend takes out a gift, puts in three of her own, adds to the note, and ships everything on to the next. Anna Baldwin, a reader from Arlee, Mont., does this with her three best friends from college: She fills a box with locally made, low-cost items-one for each friend-and a personal note, and mails it off.
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Include a recipe card for Pineapple Upside-Down Cake and instructions for how to use the item to make a dinner of Chicken Noodle Soup with a side of pears followed by Pineapple Upside-Down Cake with milk. If they drop their prize in another's drinking glass, they become their Queen (or King). The prize finder is the King (or Queen) and gets to wear a paper or toy crown. The 'blind' family member under the table says who gets each piece so there's no cheating if the bean is seen while cutting. The youngest family member goes under the table and the eldest cuts each piece. This marks the day the 3 kings finally reached the baby Jesus and is celebrated by eating a Galette de Roi or a King's Cake with a bean or prize baked inside. Use your gifts as a Christmas cool down leading to Jan 6th, Three King's Day. Traditionally the 12 days of Christmas start on Christmas and go to Jan 5th. Turtle Doves on the dining room table centerpiece, Drums worked into the mantle garland, Calling birds used as door knob hangers, milk pails used as votive holders, ladies shoes worked into the door wreath, lords boots on the stair banister garland, etc.) Instead of working the ornaments into the tree, work them into the whole house's decorations. The Christmas morning scavenger hunt can buy parents a bit more sleep in time! Make sure they count up all the ornaments they find! Work the ornaments into the christmas tree after the children go to sleep on Christmas eve. Print a word or picture scavenger hunt list for the "Ornaments" version. Make a gift basket out of the "Gag Groceries" or "Treats" version Use the "Treats" or "Toys" version as stocking stuffers or secret santa gifts leading up to Christmas (All items pictured below are from the Dollar Tree) I used the variations interchangeably to suit my needs. Note: In the version collected by John Jacob Niles, it was nine pipers piping, ten ladies dancing, eleven lords a-leaping, and twelve fiddlers fiddling. Adults and Teens will like "Treats" and older adults will enjoy the "Ornaments".įirst here's the Original list from the song:ĭay nine: Nine ladies dancing OR Nine Pipers Pipingĭay ten: Ten lords a-leaping OR Ten ladies dancingĭay eleven: Eleven pipers piping OR Eleven lords a leapingĭay twelve: Twelve drummers drumming OR Twelve Fiddlers fiddling
"Toys" work well with younger children and "Treats" with older children.
Pick the one you like best or the one that best suits your gift recipient. Here are four versions of the 12 Days of Christmas that you can give as gifts leading up Christmas: "Treats", "Ornaments", "Toys", and "Gag Groceries". The 12 days of Christmas begin or Dec 14th or Dec 25th (depending on how you use them.)
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