christmas classics – A Nifty Idea Of A Christmas Party With Retro Stuff Collections by Roy Walker

Retailer find their ways to market products, they would come up with something new for attracting the customers. But this time round the year, the new is actually quite old. The retro –style is gaining popularity again. As rightly said history repeats itself. This flash back to the classics is not only evident in the home décor or in their wardrobes but is also as an interesting theme for the Christmas parties.

People get together for celebrating Christmas; this gives them the chance to be together at least towards that part of the year. People travel miles to reunite with their families and friend – just to celebrate Christmas. You can make this Christmas as special as you want however, incorporating the retro-style of celebrating Christmas might get some beautiful memories back. For the children in the family it would anyway be a new concept and for the elderly many memories would be touched. If you are one of them who are looking forward to have Christmas the retro style this year, the following suggestions would help you get back to the 50’s.

Retro – Christmas Lunch

Retro – Christmas Lunch is quite a traditional lunch. Turkey is served; pudding with custard as the topping; Mince pies. The entire family would dress up nicely and sit together for the retro- Christmas lunch. The table would be decorated with beautiful red candles as center piece. The family would sit around to enjoy the lunch with fresh juices or wine. There could be drinks that are especially retro styled – snow ball classic cocktails.

Retro- Styled Christmas decorations

The traditional Christmas tree is the first choice, though you could go for the artificial tinsel trees if you want to avoid the pain of arranging for a real one. The artificial once could also be managed in retro – style from the 1960’s. Whichever tree that you chose could be decorated only with lights and the shiny balls. People at times also prefer to display there Christmas greeting cards as well. Shiny balls represent the 50s; 60 and 70s clearly. The use of baubles relatively reflects a more modern decoration style. Icicle and bauble with intended or crushed in look are the kinds available.

Retro- Styled Christmas Present

The type of presents presented in the 50’s; 60’s and 70’s would defiantly be different from what people would like to exchange as the Christmas gifts. However, the style of putting the gifts under the Christmas tree remains the same. The gifts would be placed under the Christmas tree by the elderly in the family as the children would run to the Christmas tree in the morning hoping that Santa would come and leave gifts for them under the tree. There are so many things that has changed since then, but thankfully some things are good when are unchanged.

As mentioned the retailers are trying to get the retro trend back, with the above suggestion try to have every thing around the Christmas party to be retro in the real sense of the word. For that matter you could have your home décor in the retro style for the year. So stop thinking and enjoy the beauty of good old times in this new modern era.

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Read and Share: The Story of Christmas, by Gwen Ellis, begins the story of Christmas with Zechariah in the temple, meeting with the angel. It wraps up when Joseph and his little family go back to Nazareth from Egypt. It has appealing and friendly illustrations by a guy named Steve Smallman.

It is a pretty atypical book. There isn’t a lot of leeway in writing when your audience wants you to be true to the original (ie, the Bible). All the kid’s Christmas books (setting aside the Christmas tree/ shopping/ winter ones) have the same story with different art, all written to kid’s levels of understanding. What really won this book a place in my heart was its details, like Jesus being a bouncing toddler on Mary’s lap when they leave Egypt. A few more examples? Tiny things like putting the word “only” in the phrase “they bowed down and worshipped God’s only Son and gave Him expensive presents of gold, frankincense, and myrrh.” Or when it explains that when the census in Bethlehem was over, “Mary and Joseph moved into a house.” At the top of each new part of the story it refers you to the part of the Bible it was taken from. Another cool thing about this book is the interaction it encourages between the reader and the child. At the base of every other page is a question about the story aimed at the young child.

They include:

- “What would you do if an angel suddenly appeared right here in front of you?”

- “The name Jesus means ‘savior.’ What does a savior do?”

- “Joseph obeyed God immediately. And God kept his family safe. Why is it good to obey quickly?”

At the end of the book is soft-cornered blocks of the images from the book, that the kids can put in the right order to practice sequencing. But the cool bonus feature of the book is a 17 minute (total) DVD with 6 stories from the life of Jesus, including

- John the Baptist, good because it ties into the Zechariah story from the book

- Jesus is born, a video version of the book’s climax.

- Where is Jesus? from the trip to Jerusalem when he was 12

- Jesus Tempted by Satan, good conversation fodder to talk to kids that He was tempted but chose the right way. Also my kids pointed out that if you tell Satan Scripture, he disappears.

- Jesus’ Life, healings, the loaves and fishes, Jesus weeping over his friend Lazarus.

- Jesus Loves the Children

It has an inscription page in the front that makes it ideal for gift-giving. At our house we have a box of Christmas books and some DVDs and this is totally going to be a keeper. The link above has it on Amazon for less than $10! I found a lot of books in the series that I would be interested in owning also. My kids were really enthralled with the Satan character and that Jesus interacted with him. He was weird-looking; imagine a male character from the time period, in the dress/toga thing, but with a hood. He had normal hands and feet poking out, but inside the hood it was just a flat charcoal grey cloud instead of a face. Every time Jesus rebuked him with Scripture, Satan pantomimed some frustration and then disappeared into a harmless cloud of bubbles.

Teresa Dear is a homeschooling mom of four kids. She and her husband have been married for eleven years. She spends her time educating her children, creating a comfortable home, and studying God’s word.

Follow her difficult journey of spiritual growth, and polish the monuments to what God is teaching her. You can celebrate with her at http://mama4x.blogspot.com.

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