Christmas Ornament Con't

Christmas ornaments are decorations (usually made of glass, metal, wood or ceramics) that are used to decorate a Christmas tree.

Ornaments take many different forms, from a simple round ball to highly artistic designs, Like those of Christopher Radko. Ornaments are usually reused year after year, and most add to their collection annually. Family collections often contain a combination of commercially produced ornaments and decorations created by family members.

Santa Claus is a commonly used figure. Snowmen, Candy canes, fruit, animals and snowflake imagery are also very popular choices

Lucretia P. Hale's story "The Peterkins' Christmas-Tree" offers a short catalog of the sorts of ornaments used in the 1870s:

“There was every kind of gilt hanging-thing, from gilt pea-pods to butterflies on springs. There were shining flags and lanterns, and bird-cages, and nests with birds sitting on them, baskets of fruit, gilt apples, and bunches of grapes."

Christmas Ornament Articles

The phrase Christmas tree ornament comes to us from the root word ornament which is an accessory used to beautify, enrich, or improve the appearance or general effect of an object. To decorate a tree with a Christmas ornament is an adornment or embellishment. They are ornamental by nature and lend beauty or attractiveness to the Christmas trees. Just watch the excitement of the children when they come down to the tree on Christmas Morning to find it surrounded by Christmas gifts, delivered by Santa during the night.

The Christmas tree is a German tradition, started as early as 700 A.D. In the 1800s the tradition of a Christmas tree was widespread in Germany, then moved to England and then to America through Pennsylvanian German immigrants.

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