Are you like me and walked in to your library yesterday morning and realized you still had a fall bulletin board up and it is only 3 weeks to Christmas break?
Here is an easy Christmas bulletin board idea. I searched the internet and collected Christmas trivia that was appropriate to my school. I created a lift-the-flap bulletin board with the trivia as an interactive bulletin board for the kids.
Here is the trivia I settled on for my bulletin board:
- What Christmas Ballet is the most famous of all?
- What is Frosty the Snowman’s nose made of?
- Who is Ebenezer?
- What kind of Christmas is Bing Crosby dreaming of?
- All I want for Christmas is my…?
- How do you say Merry Christmas in Spanish?
- How many candles are on an Advent wreath?
- Which president was the first to decorate the White House Christmas tree?
- Which country did the gingerbread house come from?
- The name of Scrooge’s dead business partner is…
- Which ocean is Christmas Island in?
- Which continent is the turkey from?
- Which author wrote a novel that includes the words it is “always winter but never Christmas”?
- What year was the first commercial Christmas card made?
- What is the best selling Christmas song ever?
- Who decided the date for Christmas would be December 25?
- What do traditional Ukranians put on their Christmas tree for good luck?
- Who appeared to tell Mary that she was with child?
- What gifts did the wise men bring to baby Jesus?
- True or false: The Bible says Jesus was born in December.
- True or false: December 25 was the date of a Roman festival.
- Which Old Testament prophet had the most to say about the birth of Christ?
- What is the name of the priest who was told he would not die until he saw the Savior?
- Where did the star first lead the wise men?
Answers:
- The Nutcracker
- A Button
- Scrooge
- White
- Two Front Teeth
- Feliz Navidad
- 5
- Franklin Pierce
- Germany
- Jacob Marley
- Indian Ocean
- North America
- C. S. Lewis – The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe
- 1843
- White Christmas
- Pope Julius I
- Spider’s web
- The angel Gabriel
- Gold, frankincense, and myrrh
- False
- True
- Isaiah
- Simeon
- Jerusalem
What’s your favorite quick bulletin board idea?