Christmas Scavenger Hunt
You are to answer the following questions on a separate paper or type
your answers into a word processing program. You may have to read to
find your answer.
http://www.christmasgifts.org/us.html
1. If you are in Texas what city do you travel to when you join a Tex-Mex posada?
http://www.santas.net/americanchristmas.htm
2. When did Santa Clause come into being in the US?
3. What author wrote about Santa Claus in 1809 that caused him to become real important to us.
4. Santa has two homes in the United States. Where are they located?
http://www.kidsdomain.com/holiday/xmas/around/unitedstates.html
5. What are two icons that the United States created as new traditions?
6. Name an American Christmas Legend. There are two choices.
Find from here about wreaths.
7. The two key ingredients that the colonists used to decorate their holiday wreaths were?
http://www.ingestandimbibe.com/Articles/fruitcake.html
8. What country gave us the fruitcake?
http://www.holidayfires.com/rudolph.php
9. Who is the ninth reindeer?
10. Who invented this reindeer and for what company?
http://www.holidayfires.com/cromwellbans.php
11. What year was Christmas abolished, by whom and why?
http://www.whitehouse.gov/president/holiday/whtree/
12. Who was the first president thought to put up a Christmas tree in the White House?
http://www.santas.net/howmerrychristmasissaid.htm
13. Write two ways you can say Merry Christmas, other than Spanish and English.
http://www.inspiringteachers.com/inspirations/christmas_jokes/
14. Answer this riddle?
Q. What do snowmen eat for lunch?
http://www.realchristmastrees.org/
You may have to click on other links bar "Trees" to answer some of the questions.
15.
On this site enter our zip code (68850) into "Find My Tree Now" What town closest to Lexington grows Christmas trees for cutting?
16. Should you add anything to the water when you put up your Christmas tree?
17. What kind of Christmas tree did the White House select?
18. Give two ways that a real Christmas tree is recycled.
http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/poinsettia/
You may have to click on other links on this site to answer the questions.
19. Who brought the poinsettia into Mexico City?
20. Are poinsettias poisonous?
21. Who grows the most poinsettias in the US and what percent do they grow?
22. How is the cost of a poinsettia determined?
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