Many people see Christmas shopping as a chore which has to be endured. There are large crowds and goods are often more expensive than throughout the year. This commercial side of Christmas is bound to continue. However, shopping can be such fun at Christmas time. The decorations and music in the shops are wonderful and the buskers fill the streets with their music. The scents and sounds of Christmas are everywhere.
Things to do
- Go shopping for presents.
- Iron linen ready for parties.
- Make serviette rings or holders.
- Sing a song...
Christmas is Coming - Traditional English
Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat;
Please to put a penny in the old man's hat;
Please to put a penny in the old man's hat.
If you have no penny, a ha'penny will do;
If you have no ha'penny then God bless you;
If you have no ha'penny then God bless you.
- Read a poem...
Those Christmas Shoppers - C.J. Dennis
Here they come - the Christmas shoppers!
Harried "Mums" and weary "Poppers" -
Here they plod on suffering feet,
All the family complete.
Eager urchin, wide-eyed maiden,
Each with many a parcel laden;
Lagging, loitering; on once more,
Int yet another store.
Way, make way for Christmas shoppers!
Bane of tortured traffic "coppers" -
Dashing out to beat the light;
Dashing back in sudden fright.
Popper meets a friend, and beckons.
"Won't be long, Mum. Coupla secon's."
Mum says "Well, then, hurry - thro.
We've still a dozen shops to do."...
- Find the rest of this poem and have fun reading it aloud to friends or family.
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