Christmas carols games puzzles

These puzzles are great for family time and make great gifts. This Christmas-themed jigsaw can be purchased if you are a fan. These jigsaws make great gifts and make great holiday gifts! Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment.

Share this: Twitter Facebook. Like this: Like Loading Christmas Themed Crossword Puzzles Printable. Three years later I ran across the puzzle again during "clean up" day in my office.

I was surprised to find it hiding under a pile of papers on my desk. The Original Puzzle was in the same spot I had dropped it back in , but now layers of other papers had long since covered it up.

Amused, I tried solving the puzzle again. I didn't do any better, but like before I was taken by its charm. By chance, was the year the Internet was just beginning to come into its own. Indeed, I had just recently opened my dance studio's new web site. I was looking for content to post to draw visitors to the new web site.

I knew that dance students are no different than any other kind of student - they like challenges of all kinds! So I decided to scan the Original Puzzle into my computer and put it on the Internet.

I wanted to share the Original Puzzle with my dance students during the Christmas Holidays. About two years after I first published the Original Puzzle at www. At this point, the puzzle went 'viral'. People from all across the planet began writing to ask for the answers. One request was from a Catholic nun stationed at the Vatican! I could not have been more amazed by this development. My goofy puzzle had become popular across the world. These days people continue to run across the Puzzle thanks again to search engines like Google.

This puzzle has been at the top of any Google Search involving " Christmas Carol Puzzles " for many years now. Around Christmas time , this becomes a much-visited page.

When people wrote me for answers, they would often add anecdotes of their own. They were so grateful to find a wholesome activity that kept their kids happy and entertained for an entire morning! Below is an example of two letters I received from school teachers. Archer, First of all, thank you so much for posting all these wonderful Christmas Carol Puzzles for us to enjoy! I first printed them off in either or and have had my 4th and 5th music students do them every year since.

We always enjoy working on them. For some reason, I never printed off the Top 40 answer list though! We just figured them out ourselves. This year I went back to your site to try and find a couple answers and was amazed and pleased with the growth it's made. How wonderful! I've now printed off all of the puzzles and will be using them again and again over the years although probably in a rotation - is WAY too many for little minds to play with.

My students have even gotten so excited about them that they write their answers on separate papers as to take the puzzles home to share with their families.

My fellow teachers and staff members ask for copies every year as well. It's become a great tradition for the upper elementary students at Pinconning Area Schools in Pinconning MI Having said all that, I am in need of some answers!

I have a list of an additional 45 that you requested to get the full answers. Thank you so much for your time and for sharing these with us! About 2 years ago I found these and was delighted.

I decided to make a game with them for my teenagers. I printed the picture puzzles and the song list the long version and after I solved most of them - I attached a song title to every gift, then placed them all under the tree. On Christmas morning I gave each of the kids the picture puzzles that matched their gifts and then they had to not only solve their puzzle, but root around under the tree to find the gift that matched. They had a blast. Thanks again!

As you can see, for years now this puzzle has been a popular activity for teachers looking for something creative to use and amuse in the days before Christmas Vacation. If you are a teacher, don't worry. Your kids are safe here. There are no pop-ups, no politics, no religious agendas, no ads, no hidden links to other Internet sites, no cookies, no viruses, no spyware.

There is no evil, just fun. In addition to school teachers, I am frequently contacted by people looking for activities to share with their church groups, office Christmas get-togethers, and family gatherings. Let me assure you this puzzle is an excellent a game to play at Christmas Parties because it can involve many people at once. Depending on how many copies you print, individuals can solve the riddles on their own. If you have a large group, you can divide them into teams.

Let them race to see which team wins! Please feel free to print out the entire puzzle. It is my gift. You may share it as many times as you like. It is my hope that your group has as much fun solving the puzzle as I had creating it. That said, I do have one request - please add my name! I like to receive credit for my work. That is all I ask. Thank you! Rick Archer , December So how does this puzzle work?

The idea is to look at a picture and guess the title of the Christmas Carol. So take a guess A Rebus is a term which means " a representation of words in the form of pictures or symbols, often presented as a puzzle ". That term explains this puzzle perfectly. The Christmas Puzzle is a series of clues using pictures that hint at the names of both famous and obscure Christmas Carol titles.

However, as you delve into the Long Puzzle , you will discover the complexity begins to rival a tough crossword puzzle. You better bring your thinking cap plus a little patience or you will be in trouble. This is the Original Puzzle I first saw in To see a larger version plus the various copies it inspired, click here My first experience with the Christmas Puzzle dates back to One night at the studio about a week before Christmas, Marla handed me a sheet of paper with 24 blurry images.

She said they were clues that represented well-known Christmas Carols. The idea was to guess the name of the Christmas Carol from the picture.

Quite frankly, I did poorly on the test. In a way, that's good. If it had been too easy I would have quickly forgotten about it. Unfortunately, my memory of Christmas Carol titles was so bad I could only get about half of the riddles. I realized that if I could have remembered more names, I would have done better. Every title I was able to remember was included in the puzzle. I wracked my brain, but could not come up with any more!

Despite my embarrassment, I thought the puzzle was very creative. I was surprised how much fun it was trying to solve the rebuses even though I wasn't very good at it.

As I said earlier, I did not create the Original Puzzle. At first, my version of the puzzle built on the anonymous work known as the "". The Original Puzzle contained 24 clues referring to the best-known Christmas Carols.

The artwork of the Original Puzzle was simple and the clues were very clever. I was impressed. After improving on the artwork a bit, I posted an updated version of the Puzzle in My version had been on the Internet for anyone to see since then. From , not one person stepped forward to claim authorship.

Then in , two women on back to back days claimed authorship. However, a panel of three people looked at the work and concluded the version I have named the "Original Puzzle" was indeed the original.

I lost track of my copy of the Original Puzzle. In fact, I completely forgot about it after my brief encounter in I took the copy home and tossed it on my junk desk. I would not see it again until three years later. One day in October , I decided it was time to clean up my junk desk.

You see, I have two desks - one desk I work at and another 'Junk Desk' where I throw things to look at later. As you might gather, 'later' can mean anywhere from next week to next century. My junk desk was about to collapse under the weight of all the papers I had thrown on it over the years.

I don't remember what caused me to risk my life and begin delving through the pile, but about halfway through the mess, I finally reached the layer of papers. If you know me, you would understand that looking for anything in my office resembles an archeological search. Once half the mound of papers was removed, I noticed the copy of the puzzle that Marla Jennings had given me. That piece of paper was laying right where I had left it three years earlier.

I picked it up and examined it. I remembered that after work that night in , I had brought home the copy Marla Jennings had given me. No doubt I tossed it on the junk desk and forgotten about it. Soon enough, as more papers fell on that desk, the puzzle had disappeared.

Out of sight, out of mind. I smiled when I saw the Original Puzzle again. Aha, an old friend! Curious, I tried solving some of the riddles again. As I racked my brain, I still didn't do very well. I didn't do any better the second time than I did the first for the same reason - I couldn't remember enough titles. Nonetheless I was hooked again. I recalled how much fun I had trying to solve the puzzle the first time. I love solving puzzles!

Crossword, jigsaw, sudoku, logic, chess, word jumble - you name it, I like it! In the quiet of my office, as I studied the Rebus puzzle, I realized for the second time just how cute and clever it was. That is when I had an idea. Why not share it with my friends at the dance studio? By coincidence, just one year earlier October I had taken my dance studio's website online. Over the past year, I was always looking for something to generate more interest in my SSQQ web site.

The idea was to post things of interest on my website to draw my dance students to visit the website as often as possible. I learned early on that the website was good for business. The more people visited the website, the more likely they were to continue to take dance classes.

For example, I would always post pictures from each Halloween Party. Not surprisingly, once my students saw how good the pictures were from one year, the pictures convinced them to join the fun the following year. This was not a complicated concept. Unfortunately, it isn't easy to come up with material quite as dramatic as Halloween pictures on a year-round basis.

I was always on the lookout for something new to lure my students back to the web site. Now as I stared at this cute little Christmas puzzle that I had just rediscovered, I decided to publish the pictures on my website as a Christmas challenge for my dance students.

Since the Christmas Season was just around the corner, why not give it a try? This way maybe they wouldn't forget my dance studio completely during the Holidays. The Holidays are rough on the dance studio business since people are too busy to take lessons, but maybe I could use the Puzzle to lure them to our Christmas Party.

It was worth a try. So I scanned the pictures into my computer. That is when I made a sad discovery. Before There was one big problem. When I looked at the pictures on my computer screen, I realized the scanned pictures were in pretty sad shape!

Most of the pictures were blurry and badly in need of some touch-up work. Given the poor condition of the copy that Marla Jennings handed me, it was fairly obvious this sheet had probably been faxed a few million times around the world before it reached my hands. Then I evaluated t he artwork. It wasn't very good. In fact, it was awful. There was a boy singing a christmas carol at my door last night. I offer them free to anyone who wishes to use them. Use these riddles at you next holiday party to add some fun.

Inspiring christmas carol worksheet answers worksheet images. We have 9 great pictures of can you name the christmas carol riddles worksheet. Why is santa really good at karate? What is black and white and green and black and white? A great collection of christmas riddles, for the holiday season, to get those brain cells working and to lift the holiday spirit. This christmas carol challenge is a great way to get students' brains working hard and thinking outside of the box.

Solution in order to make it feasible for teachers to use these problems in their classwork, no solutions are publicly visible, so students cannot simply look up the answers.

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With the names of twenty top Christmas songs to guess, this game can be played with any number of players. Pro Tip: Give away a Christmas ornament prize to the winner of your party game! Browse our Christmas Carol category and pick out a keepsake to represent your favorite song. Sign up for our emails to join our exclusive rewards program.