What are the most common Christmas tree decorations?

We all have our perspective about the design and the art of having the theme of Christmas. We have a lot preparation for these decorations. But, Christmas trees are one of the most common Christmas decorations around the world.

We have a lot of requirements for our own Christmas trees but there are certain general for these has been as traditional. Aside from that your Christmas tree must be a pine tree, here are the most common Christmas tree decorations:

Christmas Balls. These is one of the most important if you are decorating your own Christmas tree. Christmas balls have been traditional as a decoration for Christmas trees and it comes out with many different colours.

As the size of the sphere, it comes from the smallest to the largest size that your Christmas tree can fit to itself. It comes from different colours depending on the theme of your Christmas decorations, like blue, white, green, and the most common is red.

Unlike other Christmas balls, there are some in the market that goes with some designs but the general colour is still applied. Fancies are added to them, changing their colours and styles giving them a brighter and artistic decoration to fit your own Christmas tree.

Candy canes. Candies are preferably for Christmas decorations as it is also somewhat general and traditional. But the most common candy as a Christmas decorations is the candy mint cane though others still decorate their own with other candies, chocolates and other sweetness.

Candy canes come with its mint flavour candy forming a cane with stripes of red and white through its body. These are commonly sold in some candy shops and stores and often used to eat and not to decorate. But people still used to decorate as it is very attractive to children as they love sweet foods.

Christmas lights. For its main purpose, Christmas lights are serve to give light and beauty to anything for Christmas. It is one of the most common Christmas decoration and so for the Christmas tree. Christmas trees and its decorations are useless if there are no lights with it. That is why Christmas trees have to fill it up so that it can be more entertaining and attractive even if it is in dark.

Christmas lights is a set of small lights arranged in one long thread and produces different colours such as blue, green, red, yellow, white, etc. These lights are also producing a rhythmic sequence that is very attractive to our eyes especially in the dark. This will make the tree glowing like it was decorated by stars above twinkling in each branches of the Christmas tree.

Toys. Just like candies, toys give beauty to your Christmas tree as it is also a source of different colours and style. Toys are also attractive to children which they are the most entertained person by a Christmas tree. They are light and can come with great styles and colours. People are not those familiars that toy are used as a decoration but for some it has been an honour especially for the children to hang their favourite toy around a very special tree.

Gifts. Though not part of the a Christmas tree, gifts are considered as a Christmas tree decoration as it give some style to the tree. Gifts are places under the tree as if they are to be shed. They are not hang around the tree because gifts are too heavy and big.

Gifts may come from sizes from small to large with forms such as sphere or a box depending on the thing inside. It is not required to hang around a tree because it may block the other decorations as well as the tree. Unlike small gifts with the same size of other Christmas tree decorations, they can be hang up around the branches as they can be fitted to the tree.

Christmas party early set

It was a good day for God gave me so much blessings. Thanks to Him things are good.

Christmas is on its way and we are just counting days. Recently we have agreed that our class should organize a Christmas party with one of our professor. It was my classmate that made the discussion to a meeting of organizing a Christmas party. It was too early but it is better that it makes more time to prepare for it.

We discuss most about the food and other stuffs are quite. Traditionally, here in the Philippines we always celebrating Christmas parties just as simple as it is. Feast, games and fun stuffs, exchange gifts, and other entertainment and programs. I might suggest that we could actually do an activity that can ensure the true meaning of Christmas which is "love and sharing."

We prepare feast for us to eat best seasonal food that you could eat just a time in year. We prepare games and stuffs for fun and entertainment. We prepare programs for further entertainment. We prepare and perform exchange gifts just to show the value of sharing during Christmas. But, the love and respect that our beloved God was born in that day was always missing.

We can have fun for those stuffs but why do we celebrate Christmas at all? It is because of Him reminding us for His greatness. We should be aware of these things at all, but as time goes by it was not practiced at all. We should not forget this despite of our own or group desires during Christmas. Maybe we could offer the celebration for praising, worshiping and thanking Him for all He have done to us.

Show the real value of  true Christmas,

Share love and forget over tragic pasts,

Remind yourself for the greatness that He was born,

Believe in Him and you will never be alone

Let celebrate and welcome the Lord for He shall be praise!

What are the most common Christmas decorations?

Traditionally, people start to decorate things during Christmas season. In this way, we can really feel the essence of Christmas everywhere as the whole world participates that they decorate things around.

There are lot of Christmas decorations people love to use and other appreciate about it. They are very common for us but others may seem to be different that they used different kind of resources and materials but still the content and meaning is the same and that is to celebrate the Christmas season.

There are many different decorations for Christmas season nowadays, but the common Christmas decorations will never be fades as it is the original and traditional Christmas decorations for Christmas season.

Christmas Tree. This is the most common Christmas decoration in the world as it become popular now that people love to place Christmas trees inside and outside their residence. Christmas trees may also be decorated as it is a big place for other Christmas decorations like Christmas balls, Christmas lights, candy canes, toys, star, Christmas figures, etc. Generally, a Christmas tree is composes of a pine tree decorated with other Christmas decorations, gifts and toys under the tree and a bright star on the top of the tree.

Christmas Lantern. Here in the Philippines, Christmas lantern is the most common decoration that you can see around houses in every community. This has been a tradition for us Filipino to have a Christmas lantern which symbolizes hope and light. Christmas lanterns are beautiful with different colourful lights on it and forms a shape of a star. It may also come from the simplest which is in a star shape form(commonly) with no Christmas light to the most beautiful which in large size and many Christmas lights.

Christmas lights. With its different colours and changing light schemes it become one of the most popular Christmas decorations. Christmas lights are often seen on Christmas trees as it adds glamour and beauty to it and also gives a light during night times. Not all Christmas light are used in Christmas trees but it is also used as a decoration for houses and other things. You can see a lot of examples everywhere that they feel there houses a farm of Christmas lights that gives a bright and colourful decoration for the Christmas season.

Christmas figures. What I am talking about Christmas figures are those of Santa Claus, rain deer, snowman, etc who become figures and now considered one of the most common Christmas decoration during Christmas season. Wearing a red suit, boots and a hat, Santa Claus with his long white beard and a chant of “Ho! Ho! Ho! Merry Christmas!” is the most popular icon for Christmas season. Others also decorate his rain deers and with his snow sleigh and a sock full of gifts.

Snowman is one also icon for the Christmas season as it represents a snow during winter. With its natural body of two snow balls (shape like the number 8), a carrot for the nose, two branches of trees for the arms, two things for the eyes and a nice hat you can make a very good-looking Snowman. Snowman is often decorated outside the house so that others may see it with the part of the snow.

How do you know that Christmas season is already started?

People around the world are very excited about this season of joy, love and sharing. They are very excited that is why they are also having their preparations for this great event.

There are lot of things to prepare when the Christmas season starts because Christmas is something you must to prepare for. People get busy in their own way preparing but how do you know that it is already started?

People get tracked of days or eyeing their calendars just to monitor the date of the Christmas season. Here are things or signs that Christmas season had already started?

Months ending with –ber. When you are tracking the date or eyeing the calendar, you should know already that when the months go ends with –ber it is considered as the start of the Christmas season.

People may not consider it but some really appreciate and are excited that months ending with –ber is the start of the Christmas season. Though, other signs may not be present at the month of September but some are started.

Climate change. When the month of September starts, the climate also started to change. Actually, the month of September is an end for a season and a start for another season.

The climate started to change that the wind starts to go breezy or it gets cold sometimes. You can observer by yourself that it goes windy sometimes and some leaves of the trees started to fall. That is the time that snow may started to fall.

When the snow starts to fall, it is much obvious to us that Christmas season is already starting. Generally, other people just consider that the Christmas season is started when the climate started to change and when snows started to rain.

Decorations. People love to decorate on Christmas season as if they are competing with other decorations. Christmas season is just another colourful celebration for us that we used to decorate traditional decorations or making new and highly seasonable decorations that makes us more unique and famous.

Decorations like Christmas trees, Santa Claus, raindeers, Christmas lights and others as you may see around that was already scattered, is a fine sign that Christmas season is already started.

Christmas signature. When I say Christmas signatures, I am referring for those entertainments like Christmas songs, Christmas shows, Christmas movies, etc. Obviously, these signatures releases exclusively when Christmas seasons started.

People sings joyful Christmas songs around but Christmas shows and movies are much earlier to prepare. It must be prepared earlier and must be release during Christmas season. People love to watch and entertain themselves by these entertainments as it become traditional to us who are celebrating the birth of Our Lord, Jesus Christ.

What things you’d never forget to do on Christmas day?

Christmas day is the one of the best holidays over a whole year. Since it was one of the best, it means Christmas day needs a lot of preparations and also has the biggest celebrations. People get themselves busy to prepare for this once-in-a-year celebration.

They prepare many things like for decorations there were Christmas trees (consider the decoration for it), Christmas lights, Christmas figures, etc. Of course you cannot forget the food for this holiday like hams, turkeys, etc. For this holiday, gift is a must as this holiday is a season of sharing, love and joy.

After a long preparation for this big event, people don’t forget things during this time. These things are the most common during Christmas day:

Exchange gifts. An Exchange is a process like barter or shall we say buy and sell. But from the word gift itself, the person just involves gifts during the process.

As the season of sharing, people don’t forget to exchange gifts with others. Everyone here is Santa for you will be giving a lot of gifts to others. These gifts depends on yourself, whether your claim it as a material thing or nonmaterial thing.

People don’t forget to exchange gifs with others as it becomes a practice for this season. We all know about Santa Claus as he give gifts to children and these practice was adopted to these season that is why people don’t forget to share anything with others as exchange gifts.

Eat. Eating during the Christmas day is one of the most things you never forget to do for yourself. We know that Christmas season is also a celebration for our King, and we also know that celebrations can’t loss any feast on the table.

There are foods that are traditionally eaten by a lot of people during Christmas day. Every region has its own unique delicious cuisines that are served during this event. People don’t forget to eat during a celebration as it is one of requirements for our daily needs.

Wake up. It has been a practice and become a tradition to us to wake up 12:00 midnight during this day. Here in the Philippines the day before Christmas day is called “Bisperas ng Pasko” were lot of people wake up before midnight.

There is also a practice of a countdown after waking up and prepared for the Christmas day. Usually, families are gathered after waking up to count down to 12 and to welcome the Christmas day, the day of the birth of our King, Jesus Christ.

Say “Merry Christmas!”. This is the most obvious thing you can’t forget to do during Christmas day. It’s like a celebration for everyone’s birthday as they greet each other “Happy Birthday!” and giving gifts and cards to everyone.

It has also become a tradition to say “Merry Christmas!” to everyone as from the word itself, merry, means joy and happiness. Others say “Happy Holidays!” just for another term but they make no difference as they mean a happy holiday season to everyone.

People really love this day that’s why this is the most unforgettable holiday experience to everyone. Merry Christmas!