on Christmas Traditions: The Christmas tree
Tree Christmas, an imposing and majestic he is the king of Christmas . It 's the joy of children and adults. It does not matter whether natural or artificial, 2 m 50 cm high is a real attraction for us. lights on lights, colored balls, stars, ribbons, they make the frame in its ancient tradition.
Surfing the net, there are so many stories concerning the origin of the Christmas tree. Certainly one thing is certain that it was a pagan tradition absorbed later by Christianity, and news about the birth indeed occur in northern Europe, specifically Germany.
In fact, history tells us that it was decorated in 1570 in Bremen a tree with apples, walnuts, dates and paper flowers. The city of Riga instead proclaims his seat as the birth of the first Christmas tree in history in 1510.
Among the many legends and stories that I read on this topic I chose one in particular and this is what I want to tell ... ..
certainly a legend, but that will make us dream and feel a little 'magic of Christmas.
"... .. In a country village, a boy went in search of an oak log burning in the fireplace as he wanted the tradition of Christmas Eve. Loitering in the woods never to find again the road home, as a heavy snow began to fall. To escape the cold weather shelter under the only tree that had branches thick was a fir tree. The boy fell asleep, tired and exhausted beneath the branches of the fir tree. And ... .... touched down at the tree branches to form a sort of refuge, to protect it from snow. Only the next morning when he awoke and was found to all the villagers became aware of the wonderful show that the tree had created. Its branches were covered with ice crystals and glistening with the sunlight that was just ... so ... The tree became the symbol of Christmas .
Well! I told him that there was a legend but we want to dream for a few days and return children who still believe in fairy tales?
Like every anniversary has a message also has a tree: light ... ... you remember the story I told before ... ... "the sunrise (light) has pointed out to the people the tree of the village in all its splendor ... .. "
Soft Light, colorful, cascading intermittently but certainly with its own meaning: there is a light for all of us!
Who was driving the night of December 24 pastors to the cave of the little boy? A light to a star. Here, the tree with its lights is like a star. That only comes on for all of us. Imagine the tree then as a star in our homes through the streets of the city that lights up the joy, the desire to stay together, the desire to celebrate and more intense, and more lights on their head.
To this was added to the traditional pleasure of making the angle of the tree presents. Here it is then transformed into the guardian of packages and parcels, to be rejected strictly on the night of Dec. 24. You see then that our tree has become so the light of all thoughts turned into gifts!!
Well, what else say sbizzarriamoci and therefore we create our own unique Christmas tree, equal to anyone else, let us pause to look at and kidnapped by the mysterious magic that only the twinkle of his small lights can to create.
few days our children will be home for Christmas holidays. We plan to spend some time with them doing some work he creative stimuli anhée their imagination and certainly have fun with you. My kids love to paint cut paste .... short when it comes to mess something are always the first ....
This time I thought of a really easy project .... materials can also be recovered items in the house etc. ... etc. ....
The equipment required is:
- cardboard (even recovery - boxes of cookies - cereals etc. ....)
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pencil - acrylic paints (white and beige)
- brushes
- string (wool - tape, .....)
- decorations (small pine cones, beads, Christmas decorations, etc. ....)
- red ribbon (ribbon, o. ...)
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glue - scissors
on the card that you draw shapes recovered at will ... (I did the heart, but can also be stars, or trees in your imagination and your children)
Cut the shapes with scissors and give it a coat of white acrylic on both sides (the first one and then the 'etc.) allow to dry well on both sides and repeat.
Let dry at this point with a "bucatrice" for instance those used for drilling the sheets in the office (if you can not make small cuts on the cutter) performed a series of holes on all sides of the shape it into a center to hang after the decoration
Place a piece of string in the center hole
and then on all sides of the gauge
contaminated with the brush and the color beige, the shape ... dates of the strokes of color in a disorderly manner. And 'this is good for children ....
At this point do a small bow with red ribbon, attach a small pine cone, or a button, or aperlina and here is our little heart ready for our tree appesso
Happy holidays to all
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