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December 26th, St. Stephen’s Day, is known as Boxing Day in many countries. It’s named for the Christmas box some employers give to their employees, or the donation box outside churches. In Ireland, it’s also the Day of the Wren. Straw-costumed Wrenboys parade through town, singing and dancing, and collecting money for charity.
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Did you receive any presents over the holidays? Today is Thank You Note Day, so write an old-fashioned letter to say thanks! It’s also National Whiners Day, so if you didn’t get what you wanted, go ahead and complain. Just don’t expect any sympathy! It’s Candy Cane Day too, so eat a festive treat!
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Sometimes extreme cold gives you a runny nose. Cold-induced rhinitis can cause your nose to drip a cup of fluid a day! When you inhale, your nose has to make the air warm and wet to avoid irritating your lung cells. Secretions create humidity, but sometimes your nose just makes more than necessary.
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A fun holiday activity is making a gingerbread house. The cookie walls and decorations made from icing and candy look too beautiful to eat. But you’d have a hard time eating the biggest gingerbread house. It was built in Texas in 2013 and was 60 feet long. You’d have to live in it instead!
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Christmas tradition says a star overhead marked the location where Jesus was born. The Bible describes how wise men followed a star to Bethlehem. Some people think the star was really a UFO! They also think Jesus was an alien who could shift shapes. Whatever you believe, Merry Christmas!
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A popular Christmas gift for kids years ago used to be a chemistry set. But those sets could be dangerous! They contained poisonous cyanide to dissolve gold, blowtorches to make glass test tubes, radioactive uranium to practice measuring radiation, and carcinogenic asbestos to dust for fingerprints. Now some chemistry sets don’t even contain chemicals!
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Today is Christmas, a festival celebrated by billions of people to commemorate the birth of Jesus Christ. We don’t know the date Jesus was actually born, but Christmas has been December 25th since the year 336. It is marked with gift giving and Santa Claus, Christmas trees and lights, church services, songs and gatherings.
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The World Surf League is in charge of measuring the height of sea swells, for 2 surfers who are trying to claim a world record, for riding the biggest wave. British Tom Butler, and Russian Andrew Karr, both surfed a massive wave in Nazare Portugal, estimated to be over 100 feet high!
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The Columbus Zoo and Aquarium in Ohio, needs help naming their new baby elephant. You can vote for a name on the zoo’s website, choosing Darcy, Ellie, Lizzie, or Kobie. The Asian elephant calf was born to mom Phoebe, earlier this month. Baby elephants weigh about 200 pounds at birth!
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Under many Christmas trees, you’ll find a Nativity scene, with baby Jesus, Mary and Joseph, and the 3 Wise Men. But there’s also a Hipster version! Mary and Joseph are taking selfies, there are 3 Delivery Men on Segways bearing packages, the sheep is wearing a sweater, and the cow is 100% organic.
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