❓ Christmas Trivia for Kids

✅ Ho ho ho! — Santa’s famous belly laugh is “Ho ho ho!”

✅ Red and white — Most pictures of Santa show a red suit with white fur.

✅ Reindeer — Santa’s reindeer fly his sleigh around the world.

✅ The North Pole — Santa’s home and toy workshop are at the North Pole.

✅ Stockings — Stockings are filled with small gifts and treats.

✅ Elves — Elves work in Santa’s workshop all year.

✅ Milk and cookies — Many families also leave carrots for the reindeer.

✅ December 25 — Christmas Eve is the night before, December 24.

✅ A star or an angel — The star reminds many people of the star of Bethlehem.

✅ A snowman — Coal or buttons are often used for the eyes and mouth.

✅ Candy cane — Candy canes are often hung on Christmas trees.

✅ Down the chimney — In “’Twas the Night Before Christmas,” he comes down the chimney.

✅ Cookie dough — Gingerbread cookies are flavored with ginger and cinnamon.

✅ Rudolph — Rudolph’s nose lights the way on a foggy night.

✅ Presents — Families open presents on Christmas morning or Christmas Eve.

✅ Holly — Holly stays green all winter.

✅ 9 — Eight from the poem plus Rudolph make nine.

✅ Sparkle — The eight are Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner and Blitzen.

✅ A partridge in a pear tree — Each day adds a new gift to the list.

✅ The Grinch — Dr. Seuss published the story in 1957.

✅ Mistletoe — Mistletoe is often hung in doorways.

✅ Germany — Germans decorated trees as early as the 1500s.

✅ Boxing Day — Boxing Day is December 26.

✅ Poinsettia — Poinsettias come from Mexico.

✅ Father Christmas — Santa Claus comes from the Dutch “Sinterklaas.”

✅ A Visit from St. Nicholas — It was first published in 1823.

✅ A big log burned at Christmas, or a cake shaped like one — The cake version is called a bûche de Noël in France.

✅ Jingle Bells — “Jingle Bells” was first written for Thanksgiving!

✅ Christmas — One door is opened each day from December 1.

✅ Frosty — “Frosty the Snowman” was written in 1950.

✅ Milk, eggs, sugar and spices — Nutmeg is the classic spice on top.

✅ Bethlehem — The story is told in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke.

✅ Norway — Norway has sent the tree every year since 1947 as a thank-you for help in World War II.

✅ 1939 — Robert L. May wrote it for the Montgomery Ward stores.

✅ Gold, frankincense and myrrh — The story is in the Gospel of Matthew.

✅ Alabama — Christmas became a federal holiday in 1870.

✅ Tchaikovsky — It premiered in St. Petersburg in 1892.

✅ Saint Nicholas — Nicholas was a bishop in what is now Turkey, famous for secret gifts.

✅ Jingle Bells — Gemini 6 astronauts played it on a harmonica and bells.

✅ Las Posadas — Las Posadas runs from December 16 to 24.

✅ 364 — Add up every gift on every day and you get 364.

✅ Christmas (from the Latin for “birth”) — It comes from the Latin “natalis,” meaning birth.

✅ Ebenezer Scrooge — “A Christmas Carol” was published in 1843.

✅ Mexico — It is named after Joel Poinsett, the first US ambassador to Mexico.

✅ Nuremberg — Nuremberg’s Christkindlesmarkt is one of the oldest in the world.

✅ 13 — One arrives each night for the 13 nights before Christmas.

✅ NORAD — It started in 1955 after a misprinted phone number in a newspaper ad.