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A Visit from St Nicholas Coloring Pages
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Classic Christmas Story Coloring Pages
The Night Before Christmas coloring pages are a great way to bring this classic christmas story to life with students.
Use the The Night Before Christmas coloring pages to augment reading assignments, or as props for a display board project to tell the story to the class.
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A Visit from St Nicholas Coloring Pages
The A Visit from St Nicholas / Night Before Christmas coloring pages depict various scenes in the poem. Each page contains captions for that specific
scene. These pages are great visual aids as you read a "longer text" version of this favorite Christmas poem / story.
- Not a creature was stiring, Not even a mouse
- The Stockings were hung, By the chimney with care
- While visions of sugarplums, Danced through their heads
- Had just settled our brains, For a long winter's nap
- I Sprang from my bed to see what was the matter
- Away to the window, I flew like a flash
- I knew in a moment it must be St Nick
- But a miniature sleigh and eight tiny Reindeer
- And he whistled, and shouted, and called them by name !
- On Comet, On Cupid, On Donner and Blitzen
- Now dash away, dash away, dash away all!
- When they meet with an obstacle, Mount to the Sky,
- With the sleigh full of toys, and St Nicholas, too.
- The prancing and pawing of each little hoof.
- Down the chimney St. Nicholas came with a bound.
- He was dressed all in fur, from his head to his foot,
- And he looked like a peddler, just opening his pack
- His eyes how they twinkled! His dimples how merry!
- His cheeks were like Roses, His nose like a Cherry.
- The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth,
- That shook, when he laughed, like a bowl full of jelly.
- And I laughed when I saw him, in spite of myself.
- And filled all the stockings, then turned with a jerk.
- And giving a nod, up the chimney he rose.
- Happy Christmas to all and to all a good night.
The poem, "The Night Before Christmas" has been called "arguably the best-known verses ever written by an American", is largely responsible for the
conception of Santa Claus from the mid-nineteenth century to today. The verse includes a description of Santa's physical appearance, the night of his visit,
his mode of transportation, the number and names of his reindeer, as well as the tradition that he brings toys to children.
Prior to the publication of "The Night Before Christmas", American ideas about St. Nicholas and other Christmastide visitors varied considerably.
The poem also influenced ideas and cultural norms about St. Nicholas and Santa Claus beyond the United States, to the rest of the English-speaking world and beyond.
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