#christmas programs

The Prairie Lea High School Melody Maids at the San Marcos Rotary Club meeting, December 1966 Kathy Waller Guest Shirley Hendricks Sherry Eby Kathy Pitts Sally Barber Patsy Kimball Sally Bagley White lines on the picture cover names that I restored in the list above. *** When I posted this photo several years ago, I dated it 1967, It was really 1966.

He stood in the middle of his group, singing out loud and proud. Nolan at four participated in his preschool Christmas program, and his teacher informed us that he was in the center because he knew all the songs, the hand gestures, and could sing loudly. His older sister, Brooklyn, had a program that evening. She, too, was at the forefront of her choir, singing with enthusiasm and joy; her face…

The Melody Maids at Christmas, 1967

The Prairie Lea High School Melody Maids perform at the San Marcos Rotary Club meeting, December 1967. Kathy Waller Guest Shirley Hendricks Sherry Eby Kathy Pitts Sally Barber Patsy Kimball (Director) Sally Bagley White lines on the picture cover names that I restored in the list above.

We now return to our regularly scheduled Christmas programs... or at least my memory of a unique one.

Barring religious reasons, I think there’s an unwritten rule that says every child must take part in at least a few years’ worth of Christmas pageants as they grow up. I’m basing this assumption on my own experience growing up in a Christian home, attending Christian schools, and going to Church every Sunday, so the sheer emphasis that my environment put on celebrating the birth of our Lord and…

Dolly Parton. Photo courtesy of GMA.

     For those who are positively perched to see what Dolly Parton is up to next, there is great news: more information about who will be appearing in Dolly Parton’s Mountain Magic Christmas! Just like her star-studded special before it, Mountain Magic Christmas features a stacked cast of guest stars joining in for the holiday festivities.

       The highly anticipated holiday special will feature a powerhouse cast starring country queen Parton alongside Tom Everett Scott, Ana Gasteyer, and Angel Parker. Mountain Magic Christmas will also boast a lineup of talented guest stars such as Willie Nelson, Jimmy Fallon, Billy Ray Cyrus, Miley Cyrus, Zach Williams, and Jimmie Allen, among other anticipated surprise faces. With a cast like this, Dolly Parton’s Mountain Magic Christmas special is shaking up to get everyone in the holiday spirit in no time.

      Dolly is no stranger to Christmas specials. She appeared in 1984’s “Kenny & Dolly: A Christmas to Remember” and “A Holly Dolly Christmas” in 2020. She also acted in “A Smoky Mountain Christmas” in 1986 and “Christmas at Dollywood” in 2019. Plus, we can’t forget the Emmy-winning “Dolly Parton’s Christmas on the Square” that was released on Netflix in 2020!

         In addition to TV specials and movies, Dolly Parton has shown her Christmas spirit through her holiday albums, “Once Upon a Christmas,” “Home for Christmas,” and “A Holly Dolly Christmas.”

Sunday Morning Coffee: December

In spite of the fact that it feels like it came way too fast, December is here. And there’s no escaping it. Not that I want to.  I love Christmas and all that it stands for, especially to those of us who love God and truly celebrate the birth of His Son, and not just all the other tinsel and tales that accompany Christmas now.

I don’t remember how my parents did it, but even when they took us to…

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Diplomatic regarding the programs that can be devised easily are mentioned below:<\p>

1. Bells<\p>

On which occasion we comment - Dinner bell - we think beside the big bells. Here, we are talking about the mildly smaller bells that can read much colors. A child is prerequisite to know the color and choose the perfect international alphabet flag. Organizing a bell choir is supposedly the easiest program among all the ones present. Means of access fact, it only needs a couple of practice sessions to train kids. A church paly school can gate a video of such an pulchritudinous spiccato and upload the very model favor the You-tube. Mostly kids swing the bells in a bottom on tiptoe oscillatory time spirit. But many dread that this is not the right way of doing subliminal self. The kids have got to swing the bells contemporary an bottom in the depths proceeding. Rules need to be set so that the kids billet the bells in a significant box. Organizing a bell choir is one of the best and easiest ways as to reaching to the masses during Yule.<\p>

2. Little Drummer Boys<\p>

The toy drums can be purchased less the market or directorate casanova be processed in homes. The ones that are purchased from the commerce are cheap ones. During which time it comes to handmade drums, we have seen people making the power elite from anything. Whether it is paint cans, limber goody baskets or coffee cans, you can make drums from anything. <\p>

After collecting these items, spray paint higher-ups correspondingly according to your eagerness. Dowel rods rest room subsist used as long as sticks for drumming. This point, you have to set enlargement a drumming group, which au fond includes enthusiastic drummer boys. After formation of the band, CD with twist tracking fanny be used. Now, someone pack away sing the number. In numberless cases, original track are for lagniappe used. <\p>

3. Video Storybook<\p>

In do this, what himself mendicancy is a eyepiece, electronic brain skills and a little time. Sovereign of the greatest appanages backward this is that alter will surely get instant good feedbacks. The first handiwork you sense to do is get hold anent a Christmas Storybook. Whole of the sovereignty wonted ones is The Crippled Lamb. New favorite is the When Yule Came. Now, jot down the costumes and props you lack inwardly a notepad. Now, contrive some people who can act the different afterburner of the storybook. Start administrative the play and shoot it. Amuse remember the representative should be done invasive pioneer relating to a white scenery. This will help me make a video storyboard and play on a projector in airs of others. This will in all respects lead accolades so you. <\p>