About Karen Riedl

webmaster of Countyfairgrounds.net , CountyFairsUSA.net, and HalloweenEventsUSA.com. I love, knitting, organic food, running, web techie (well about 75% of the time) , and my dogs Freddie and Scamp, Tucson and the Rocky Mountains.

Christmas Craft Ideas for Kids

Christmas crafts being one of the most widely celebrated holidays is around the corner. It's time to paint the air with the red, green and golden color, have fun with families and friends, and also enjoy the merriment and the cold weather that the season holds. It's time for the kids Christmas crafts! As the [...]

2023-10-24T14:49:36+00:00November 29th, 2014|Christmas Crafts, Kid's Christmas Crafts|0 Comments

Snow and Snowflakes Trivia

Scientists snowflakes say snow is precipitation in the form of ice crystals, originating in clouds when temperatures are below freezing point and the water vapor in the atmosphere directly condenses into ice without passing through the liquid stage. And once an ice crystal has formed, it absorbs and freezes additional water vapor from the surrounding [...]

2023-10-25T11:56:13+00:00December 11th, 2013|Dean Martin, Let it Snow, Snow, Snowflake, Snowmen|0 Comments

All About Santa’s Suit

In an earlier post, we talked about Santas suit being typically garbed in a white fur-trimmed red jacket and pants with matching hat, black boots and broad-buckled belt. We said that this prototype Santa suit, which became world famous through the Coke commercials featuring artist Haddon Sundblum’s lifelike paintings, was first originally seen in the [...]

Winter Wonderland

Whether or not there is snow this Christmas, why not theme your Yuletide celebrations with a traditional American winter wonderland motif. If there is snow, build a snowman outside your house along your front yard. It’s easy and it’s fun especially if you do it with the kids. Dress up your snowman and accessorize it. [...]

Christmas Cookies

Christmas cookies are cookies cut and decorated into an assortment of shapes traditionally associated with Christmas like candy canes, snowmen, holly leaves, Christmas trees, Santa Claus, reindeer, Christmas presents, snow flakes and Christmas stars. Order Christmas Gluten Free Sugar Cookies Of course, a cookie, by definition, can be any of a variety of [...]

2023-10-25T12:00:41+00:00December 1st, 2013|Cookies, history|0 Comments

Lets Play Secret Santa

Liven up your school, office, neighborhood or even family Christmas party with a traditional “Secret Santa” game. If you are hosting, begin by getting the participants to agree on the price range, typically $10 - $20. Be considerate to those on a tight budget and do not encourage anything too expensive. Next, ask the group [...]

Why Hang the Christmas Stocking?

“The christmas stockings were hung by the chimney with care, in hopes that Saint Nicholas soon would be there," reads the passage from that timeless “A Visit from Saint Nicholas” poem that people my age used to recite out loud in school come Christmas time. So indeed, hanging stockings over the chimney has long been [...]

Christmas Wreath History

In the Christmas USA, one of the traditional Christmas Wreath practices we still like to observe is hanging around our homes wreaths made with real or artificial evergreen branches which are decorated with bows, leaves, flowers, fruits, nuts and other ornaments. The places where we commonly hang such wreaths are on the doors, walls and [...]

2023-10-24T17:38:01+00:00November 19th, 2013|Advent Wreath, History|0 Comments

Santa’s Reindeer

At his home somewhere at the North Pole, Santas reindeer Clause has a stable where he keeps his team of flying reindeer which he uses to pull his sleigh through the air whenever he delivers gifts to all the nice little boys and little girls on Christmas eve. Literature professor Clement C. Moore's 1823 poem [...]

Different Types of Christmas Trees

A Christmas trees is a designed shrub, usually an all time natural conifer such as brighten, or maple or fir, generally associated with the party of Xmas. The Xmas shrub is one of the most well known and respected Xmas customs. Each year, a thousand live plants are purchased and designed .Evergreen coniferous plants stand [...]

2023-10-25T12:06:14+00:00November 10th, 2013|Types of|0 Comments
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