Decorations can be bought in shops, twinkling tinsel, baubles and angels, stars and Christmas figurines. Paper and paste ornaments made by the children at school are also popular.

These decorations are again recycled year after year and often children have favourites remembered each Christmas when the family gathers around to decorate the tree.

Christmas Eve is an exciting time for families. The Christmas Tree will have been placed and decorated in the family home often a week or more before. Children usually help decorate the tree.

Everyone is getting very excited, it's only two or three sleeps, (depending in which part of the world you live.) before we take off around the world in just one night!

'Crikey It's Christmas!' There's work to be done

I'm off to the lands of the hot shining sun

Stable the reindeer ! Hitch up the Roos !

Take off these stinky hot, Black shiny shoes !

Where are my board shorts? Where is my hat?

Where is my sunscreen? Where is my map?

Aah! here it is, in with the Esky,

Where's those cold drinks?

Hope those Roos won't be pesky.

I'm taking off soon, Hope you all have been good