Today we went to the museum of the Highwood and we learned about what Christmas was like in the past. We learned that they ate roast beef for their Christmas dinner because there was lots of cows. We learned that they did not have cars so they used sleighs and horses to go places instead. They brought evergreen trees into their house just like we do today. They do this to remind them that the winter will one day end and spring will come.
We learned that they did not have fancy stockings like we do so they used to use the biggest sock they could find to hang up. They might get homemade toys in their stockings. They would ususally get fruit that came on the train in their stocking and it was very special.
She showed us some old toys that were in display cases. The toys used to be homemade or they picked them from catalogs and it took along time for them to get here.
We talked about the Christmas Carol Jingle Bells and she told us that when it say "Bells on Bobtail" that is because they cut the horses tail short and then put bells on them. We sang Jingle Bells and rang little bells while we sang.
They had an exportation center and we got to play old fashion. They had a store and some dress up clothes. At the end she read us a book called a porcupine in a pine tree and we made a craft of a paper candy cane
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