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Two Christmas Books

By Headmistress | Published: December 8, 2015

According to The Bookman, mid 1890s edition, “…In “Beasley’s Christmas Party,” Tarkington wrote another Christmas carol as lovely as McCutcheon’s Mr Bingle.”  Naturally, I had to look these both up.  I was alternately charmed and horrified by Mr. and Mrs. Bingle.  Here’s a charming bit: Mr. Bingle “The Bingles were singularly nephewless, nieceless, cousinless. There […]

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Christmas Reading

By Headmistress | Published: December 6, 2015

The Rose and the Ring The classic Christmas story The Rose and the Ring was written by Thackeray in Rome for the little daughter of the American sculptor William Story. The Blue Bird: a Fairy Play in Six Acts by Maeterlinck The Blue Bird for Children The Wonderful Adventures of Tyltyl and Mytyl in Search […]

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Vintage Paper Christmas Tree

By Headmistress | Published: December 6, 2014
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Decorate a Paper Christmas Tree

By Headmistress | Published: December 1, 2014

Alternative suggestion: use a hole punch to make Christmas balls of different coloured papers. Or print out this predecorated tree and colour and cut it out for a simpler version:   Or this one, which has Bethlehem themed ornaments.   Um, plus elephants. Because elephants are cute.  

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Christmas Poinsettia to Colour, Cut and Paste.

By Headmistress | Published: November 28, 2014

From The Instructor, Volume 29 By Frederick A. Owen, 1919 Colour, cut, paste the flower in the pot. Make several and put them up in a row along the bottom of a window, or along a bookcase, or the mantle. Keep some white and make some red and practice patterns. Put glitter on them, or […]

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