[Gutenberg 12974] • Christmas Entertainments

CHRISTMAS ENTERTAINMENTS

CONTAINING

FANCY DRILLS, ACROSTICS, MOTION SONGS, TABLEAUX, SHORT PLAYS, RECITATIONS IN COSTUME

FOR CHILDREN OF FIVE TO FIFTEEN YEARS

with

*Full Christmas History and Table of Contents.

CONTENTS.

NEW SONGS TO OLD TUNES:

Time for Santa Claus

M. Nora Boylan

Santa Claus is Coming

Maud L. Betts

Old Santa Claus

M. Nora Boylan

FANCY DRILLS:

A Christmas-bell Drill

Ella M. Powers

The Snow Brigade

Marian Loder

Christmas Stockings

A.S. Webber

ACROSTICS:

Christmas Children

M. Nora Boylan

Santa Claus

W.S.C.

Charity

Jay Bee

Merry Christmas

M.D. Sterling

MOTION SONGS:

A Christmas Lullaby

Dance of the Snowflakes

Alice E. Allen

Little Snowflakes

Ella M. Powers

Christmas Stories

Lettie Sterling

TABLEAUX:

Christmas Pictures

RECITATIONS IN COSTUME:

The Brownie Men

M. Nora Boylan

Winter's Children

J.D. Moore

Santa Claus

Julia C.R. Dorr

Father Christmas' Message

J.A. Atkinson

SHORT PLAYS:

Mr. St. Nicholas

Alice M. Kellogg

Christmas Offerings by Children

Ella M. Powers

from Other Lands

A Christmas Reunion

M.D. Sterling

Christmas Waits

Katherine West

A Christmas Party

Lizzie M. Hadley

RECITATIONS FOR THE PRIMARY GRADE:

Santa's Helpers

M. Nora Boylan

Christmas Eve

Eugene Field

Santa Claus's Visit

Susie M. Best

To Santa Claus

Jennie D. Moore

What I Should Like

Jennie D. Moore

A Gentle Reminder

Alice W. Rollins

Christmas Time

M.N.B.

Christmas Wishes

C. Phillips

Christmas Morn

M.N.B.

My Christmas Secrets

S.C. Peabody

Kriss Kringle

Susie M. Best

A Message

Ella M. Powers

The Mousie

M.N.B.

A Letter from Santa Claus

William Howard

The Christmas We Like

Ella M. Powers

Saint Nick

M.N.B.

Merry, Merry Christmas

Carine L. Rose

Christmas Questions

Wolstan Dixey

A Catastrophe

Susie M. Best

RECITATIONS FOR THE GRAMMAR GRADE:

A Christmas Gift

Mabel L. Pray

A Christmas Thought

Lucy Larcom

The Merry Christmas Eve

Charles Kingsley

The Christmas Stocking

Charles H. Pearson

Christmas Hymn

Eugene Field

Bells Across the Snow

F.R. Havergal

Christmas Eve

Frank E. Brown

The Little Christmas Tree

Susan Coolidge

The Russian Santa Claus

Lizzie M. Hadley

A Christmas Garden

A Christmas Carol

J.R. Lowell

The Power of Christmas

Peace on Earth

S.T. Coleridge

The Christmas Tree

Old English Christmases

Holly and Ivy

Eugene Field

Holiday Chimes

Christmas Dolls

Elizabeth J. Rook

Red Pepper

A. Constance Smedley

A Game of Letters

Elizabeth J. Rook

Under the Christmas Tree

Arthur Guiterman

Christmas History

Etymology

Celebration

Date of celebration

Using the Julian calendar

Commemorating Jesus’ birth

Decorations

Music and carols

Food

Cards

Stamps

Gift giving

Legendary gift-bringing figures

History&lt