Posting this for myself. It came from a message board and I want to be able to pin this into pinterest to do next year. The message board is a private one so I can’t pin from there. This is from Alyshia and I’d like to do some variation of this next year!
Night One:
Tonight’s the first night, and this is where it all starts.
Know that each of these gifts comes straight from our hearts.
Now each night going forward, we’ll bring gifts to your door,
The twelve days of Christmas, not one less or one more.
Beware of this warning- your friends will be here,
But you better not look , or we will all disappear.
Then all of your gifts that we’ve carefully planned,
On some other front porch they will surprisingly land.
Now in the song, it’s a partridge and pear
but when I looked, my trees were all bare!
So I ran to the store at a hurried pace.
Pears, the had plenty, but no birds in the place!
GIFT: canned pears
Night Two:
Tonight calls for 2 turtle doves,
but they are extremely hard to find!
So here are turtles and doves -
The chocolate candy kind!
GIFT: uh, turtles…
Night Three:
Hens are chickens
If they are French, or not!
Here is chicken soup
to heat in the pot!
GIFT: ok, some are straight forward…
Night Four:
The calling birds have all flown away.
They’re visiting South to see the view.
Instead of a call, they left these few things,
a package of mini eggs – their gift to you!
GIFT: ok, reeeeally straight forward…
Night Five:
Only 5 golden rings?
How about one more?
of golden doughnuts
I bought from the store!
GIFT: you, got that, right?
Night Six:
Six geese a-laying some eggs quite unique.
I looked at them close and what do you think?
They are made of some chocolate candy!
Here are six for you, isn’t that dandy?
GIFT: kinder eggs
Night Seven:
The seven swans were swimming and having such fun,
that when I called them, they wouldn’t come out, not one!
I called until my face, it turned blue,
So instead made these “swan” eggs for you!
GIFT: I melted white chocolate and put a yellow m&ms in them to look like fried eggs.
Night Eight:
Eight maids were milking
Their beautiful cows
when they suddenly realized,
the milk was all brown!
GIFT: er, chocolate milk….
Night Nine:
Nine ladies dancing was a beautiful sight,
I applauded so loud, it gave them a fright!
They ran away in a hurry, but left behinds these treats!
I hope you enjoy it even though it was underneath their feet.
GIFT: I don’t remember…
Night Ten:
Ten Lords a-leaping.
Who could reach the stars first?
To send back to us
These delicious starburst!
GIFT: uh, starburst…
Night Eleven:
Eleven pipers piping came to my door,
As I jumped up to answer it,
the pan fell to the floor.
I stood among the cookie crumbs
and wondered what to do.
The day was late, the time was short,
I had no gift for you.
I bent and swept the cookies up
into a small dustpan.
A friend like you, I told myself,
would surely understand.
GIFT: cookies wrapped up on a dustpan.
Night Twelve:
Twelve drummers drumming
I think would be too loud!
So I thought about some drumsticks
but ones not for making sound…
GIFT: ice cream drumsticks.
And here’s another one:
This glad Christmas season is so full of fun.
We’re happy to share with your family, then run.
How grateful we are that you’re playing our game.
You’ll now find that Christmas won’t be the same.
The song that we sing twelve days in a row
Won’t get tiresome with treats from friends you know.
But to keep up the mystery and the fun,
You won’t know who we are until we’re all done!
Each night we’ll bring something
Please don’t watch for us coming.
If you catch us too soon,
It will spoil the fun that’s coming!
Tonight calls for a partridge for your pear tree,
But partridges are tough catches, you see.
Now, how about some canned pears, instead of the bird.
They taste very good, or so we have heard.
Tonight we have turtles & doves coming your way.
Eat all the chocolate you may.
Because in your family you have quite a few,
We’ve left on your doorstep more than just two.
Hens are chickens
If they are French or not!
Here is chicken soup
To heat in a pot.
Four calling birds, we can’t pay the fare,
For all we have is a purse full of air.
As Christmas approaches, and calls you must make,
Don’t use these gold coins or the phone you may break.
Only five golden rings?
There really are more
Of gold pineapple rings
I got from the store.
Six geese-a-laying– an interesting sight.
One of them squawked and they all took flight.
What they left in their nest, you’ll just have to look,
But with these you won’t want to cook.
The 7th day of Christmas and we are half way done,
Remember no peeking or you’ll spoil the fun.
On this day of Christmas, how nice it would be,
If seven swans a swimming your family could see.
But no swans could be found for you on this day, So we’re leaving bubble bath help finish your day.
On the eighth day of Christmas, we’re busy as a bee.
Eight maids-a-milking, no where do we see.
“Brown” cows were found in a barn instead, So, here’s some chocolate drink to have before you go to bed.
Nine ladies dancing would be too big a crowd,
Besides their music is way too loud.
We have for you the canes that they used,
Their sizes are so small, aren’t you amused?
Ten lords a leaping would be an awesome gift,
But they got stuck while jumping through a white snowdrift.
While we can’t leave you snow,
this can be saved to use tomorrow!
{Just wait and see…}
Those eleven pipers piping reminds us of our plumber,
To leave him on the doorstep would be a real bummer.
Now make your water piping hot, and fill your cups with care.
We’re giving you some hot chocolate we know you’ll love to share.
We simply can’t believe this game is almost through.
We’ve had a jolly time bringing these gifts to you.
With only one more night, don’t you wish you knew,
Just exactly who we are and why we’re doing this for you?
Christmas Eve has arrived, and on this our last night,
One dozen drummers would be a grand sight.
But the noise of their drums would hurt your head,
So eat all these cookies we bring you instead.
The thing to now remember, if you’ve had lots of fun
When next December rolls around you make the nightly runs.
Make sure you pick your family with tender, loving care
‘Cause its fun to get to spoil them at this special time of year.
And so we wish you a joyous Noel,
We know that you’re hoping our name we will tell.
But our name stays a secret, we just cannot share.
It wouldn’t be right, no it wouldn’t, so there!
Merry Christmas!
Day one: can of pears Day eight: chocolate drink
Day two: turtle & Dove candies Day nine: candy canes
Day three: can of chicken soup Day ten: bag of mini marshmallows
Day four: gold chocolate coins Day eleven: box of hot cocoa
Day five: can of pineapple rings Day twelve: dozen home baked
Day six: plastic eggs filled with cookies
chocolate
Day seven: bubble bath
Be back soon with pictures from the last two weeks.
What an heirloom for our family! I love that this is made for families to display and for children to play with- it is beautiful, sturdy and meant to hand down for generations. As you can see below, the children have been playing with it. This makes me so happy!
