关于描写圣诞节的英语作文(汇编20篇)

Winter is cold. Let’s play the snowball and make snowman.

The snowman is big . I like to play snowball. I am on the snow. The snow is cold. I have a scarf and coat. So I am not cold. I like the Christmas. Because I can see santa clus in Christmas . Christmas tree is beautiful. The presents are on the Christmas tree.

I like winter. Do you like winter?

1 A cheery Christmas and the New Year hold lots of happiness for you!

2 A Christmas greeting and good wishes to you who is thought about all the year through. Have a beautiful Christmas and a happy New Year.

3 A Christmas greeting to cheer you from your daughters.

4 A Christmas greeting to cheer you, my good friend.

5 A Christmas wish from your nephew.

6 A holiday wish from your son Tom.

7 A Merry Christmas and a wonderful New Year.

8 A merry Christmas from all of your students.

9 A merry yuletide!

10 A present from me is on the way. Hope youll like it.

11 A special card from your grandson.

12 A wish for a truly merry Christmas and may the joy of Christmas linger in your heart all the year!

13 At Christmas and always, may peace and love fill your heart, beauty fill your world, and contentment and joy fill your days.

14 Beautiful dream comes true.

15 Best of luck in the year to come.

16 Best wishes for a wonderful new year.

17 Best wishes from Mark, Janet and the kids.

18 Best wishes on this holiday season.

19 Bring you Good wishes of happiness. This Christmas and on the coming year.

20 Christmas comes but once a year. But when it comes it brings good cheer.

21 Christmas greetings and best wishes!

22 Christmas is the most human and kindly of season, as the month of June with sunshine and the balmy breath of roses.

23 Christmas should be a time of banked-up fines, the scent of flowers and wine, good talk, good memories and loyalties renewed. But if all else is lacking - love will do.

24 Christmas time is here. I hope you have a wonderful New Year. May every day hold happy hours for you.

25 Dont forget to hang up the sock!

因为每年六一都会有不同的惊喜，你喜欢过儿童节吗?

儿童节英语作文篇1

Dear Mary，

We shall go to Chongqing Museum to visit the spaceship Yang Liwei took in the space on Childrens Day. We are going to take the number 464 bus there at 8：30 a.m.out side the school gate.

May I borrow your English novel “ Under the Moon ” for a week? Please bring it to me that day if you will.

儿童节英语作文篇2

During the Childrens Days when we were young, we sometimes were taken out by parents, or we young kids went together by ourselves, running to the very places with lots of fun and buying plenty of things for a whole day. If my parents took me to, I would choose climbing hills as i loved to.we usually chose to climbing tall ones,because it would be so meaningful.some would like to invite friends home to have a party to celebrate the Childrens Day.

Anyhow, it was fun each time.

儿童节英语作文篇3

Childrens day is coming. I decided to do many things on that day.

First of all. That day we will get up early, came to the school, because we now is a junior high school student, so the school wont for us as the primary that give us after 61, although just top junior high school of time, but a little habits, half year after will probably already accustomed to junior middle school life. 61 will be here soon, and now we are facing tests sports add try. Also is in the June 1 day, I hope we can take an examination of teenager years is a good grades

Rabbit mammals Lagomorpha, herbivorous invertebrates, mammals. Head a little like a rat ear according to different varieties, large and small, upper lip middle division, is a typical three petal mouths, adorable. The rabbit who is gentle, lovable, is a popular animal. The tail is short and upturned, forelimb is shorter than the hind legs, be good at jumping, running very fast. Pet rabbits like sticky, hare afraid. Color is generally white, grey, withered grass, brown red, black and color.

兔兔类哺乳动物,无脊椎动物,食草哺乳动物。头有点像一只老鼠的耳朵根据不同的品种,或大或小,上唇中间分裂,是典型的三瓣嘴,可爱。兔子是谁温柔,可爱,是一个很受欢迎的动物。尾巴是短的,前肢比后腿短,善于跳跃,跑得很快。宠物兔子像粘稠的,兔子害怕。颜色通常是白色,灰色,枯萎的草,棕色红色,黑色和颜色。

Autumn garden is beautiful, is fragrant, is happy, is happy.

Autumn garden has a variety of chrysanthemums, there are fragrant sweet-scented osmanthus.

Chrysanthemum color is very much, there are red, yellow, red - chrysanthemum not only the color, the variety is also very much, look! Some like a little girl long fluttering, and some like the poodles hair, Scrolls, and some like a small pompon, soft - the chrysanthemum in the garden there is a cluster of piles, and some of a basin of pots, and some are blossoming, they are contests!

Autumn garden, more fragrant than the chrysanthemum, that is sweet-scented osmanthus. A blossoming sweet-scented osmanthus, small, yellow, that shares of the fragrance blowing with the wind, it intoxicated. Whenever I walk through the osmanthus tree before, could not help but stopped, I think a lot of people will say: What is the use of incense? I think sweet and fragrant osmanthus not only give you a good mood, it also has a Quality, is to work together. You see, a sweet-scented osmanthus gently fall down, another sweet-scented osmanthus and quietly bloom, a steady stream of aroma. How much like our motherland, 56 ethnic prosperity, endless!

I love the colorful chrysanthemums and fragrant sweet-scented osmanthus, they add a vibrant landscape to the autumn garden!

I love the spring, because she is full of life; I love the summer, because she is hot, full of passion; I love autumn, because she has the joy of harvest; but I love the winter, because she contains a fascinating charm.

Winter morning, a eyes open, you can see the balcony of the window glass condensed out of a large fog, like chrysanthemum, like Liu, like a lake ... ... beautiful very. See here, I suddenly get up from the bed, dressed, went straight downstairs.

Just a go out, a chill hit the head, I can not help but shiver! The weather is really cold ah, even the sun in the sky are hiding in the clouds refused to come out. The air is free from a few strands and not too thick fog, as if wearing a gentle chiffon. Milky white morning fog is like a real thing, reaching a grasp, but nothing, they are like a group of white elf in amusement to you. After a little while, the fog gradually scattered. The sun also jumped out from the clouds, all around the moment a bit bright.

With the rise of the sun, everything around it seemed so bright! Some of the water on the road had condensed into a thin layer of ice. I leaned over and stretched out my hand, and there was a slippery, cool, hard feeling over my body. I quickly stood up, looking at the roadside trees, bare branches on the already no green embellishment, looks no longer as full of vitality in the past, full of vitality. Waves of cold wind blowing, the branches of the trees slightly swing, as if a chatter. They at the foot of a small amount of leaves, has long been the wind without a trace, the only remaining some of the soil has been absorbed. Touch the trunk, a rough, hard feeling hit, the same in the winter under the invasion becomes cool.

In the twinkling of an eye, the sun has risen completely. This winter morning gradually in the past, that the slightest chill is also more and more light.

I love the winter morning, because she has a kind of unspeakable, fascinating charm - which is unmatched by other seasons.

True friends always come to you when their help is in need.They try their best to help you without thinking what they can get from it. This invariably wins them love and respect from otbers, for they devote themselves to the happiness of others.

Up to the time of my writing this article, Aero has been helping me with my selecting the courses with great effort. He is a friendly and zealous guy. I think he has been liked by others since long ago because of his characteristics. He is always brisk,enthusiastic, energetic and he is smiling no matter when or where you see him. However, I like him for some other reason.It seems that between us there is a special way to communicate and its not the usual way through which we communicate such as words and gestures. He has always been a friend of mine be cause I like the way he acts and lives and the way we communicate.

One morning a week ago, he came to me and asked if he could be of help. Actually I had been worrying about my course of this semester for days since I hadnt got any English courses yet! Still I was totally caught off guard by Aeros offer though he had always been kind. I thought it was my own business and it had never occurred to me that some other individual would offer to help with my selecting the courses. So I declined his kindness.  The very next day, I got a cough and it later turned out to be a four-day high fever. In those days, I was extremely weak and lay in bed all day long and hardly had any strength even to eat. I lost the power to keep an eye on the possible vacancies of the English courses ever since I got a high fever. I began to regret declining Aeros offer. Just at that moment, Aero called,asking about my health and told me to have a good rest, saying that he would shoulder the responsibility of selecting my English courses for me. Now I am writing this article as the homework of this writing course and Id like to re emphasize that it is all due to my friends effort that I have finally made it.

I was really grateful to him when he called and offered to help and it is hard to express my gratitude with words.  All I want to say about it is that at that moment, I realized that he had offered to help not because it made him feel he was important but because he meant business. Hes a man of integrity. I am proud of having such a friend.

Ive been through many things since childhood, and the most memorable thing happened on Christmas day several years ago.

I heard that Santa Claus would give the lovely baby a gift on Christmas day. I went to bed early that night and hoped that when I woke up in the morning of the second day, there would be a dream assembly toy at the head of my bed. Second day open eyes, wow! I really have a pillow next to the toy box.

"Mom, mom! Santa came over last night really gave me a toy." "I was so happy that I ran out of my bedroom with my toys in my arms without socks," I shouted to my mother. My mother smiled and said: "as long as the babys good, Santa will give him a gift."

"The Santa Claus from what place in? I had no chimney, the window is so high, will not hurt him? How did he know that I love the toy?" I asked very much puzzled.

"Santa Claus not only plays tricks, but also guesses," he said."

"Oh, that came over Santa and on TV like?" I asked.

"Silly boy, ha ha ha ha," my sister laughed angrily. "What Santa Claus is there?" she said. "Thats my mother on your bedside."."

"No, no! Its Santa Claus! Not Mommy!"." I excused myself, looking at my mother for help. My mother only smiled but did not reply.

Finally, in my strong request, my mother was forced to say, "she sent me," I suddenly realized. I remember it so much now that I remember it for a long time.

今天爸爸给我买了一只可爱的小鸡，全身长着桔黄色的茸毛，我给它起名叫“小黄”。小黄两只小眼睛一眨一眨的，像小星星一样，它的爪子还没有长得那么坚硬有力，让小黄显得更加可爱。小黄最喜欢做的事情就是趴在我的脚上睡觉。毛茸茸的、软软的身体，让我感觉到脚暖和极了。

Today, my father bought me a lovely chicken, covered with orange hair, I called it "yellow". Miss Huangs two small eyes blink and act like a little star. Its claws are not so strong and strong as to make Xiao Huang look more lovely. Xiao Huangs favorite thing to do is to sleep on my feet. The fluffy, soft body made my feet warm.

看着它睡得香甜，我不忍心动一下，生怕惊醒它，当我挪动我的脚时，它还恋恋不舍地追随我的脚。到了晚上小黄还是唧唧的叫着，要我陪它。于是我做了一个脚的模型，周围放了温水瓶，这样小黄就安心入梦了，看着它睡着了，我也安心地睡觉了。

It looked at sleep soundly, I could not bear to heart, afraid of waking it, when I move my feet, it is unable to part my feet to follow. In the evening, Xiao Huang still chirped and asked me to accompany him. So I made a foot model, surrounded by warm water bottle, so his yellow dream, watching it fall asleep, I also sleep at ease.

小黄还喜欢跑来跑去和我捉迷藏，有一次，我找了半天，也没找到它，后来，在我的澡盆里发现了小黄。它在里面怎么飞，也飞不出它自己不小心蹦进去的澡盆了。看着它，我笑了，小心翼翼地把它拿出来了。我的小鸡“小黄”可爱吧！

Huang also love to run and hide and seek, once, I am looking for a long time, did not find it later, Huang was found in my bathtub. It can fly inside, also can not fly out of its own in the bathtub was accidentally jumped. Looking at it, I smiled and took it out carefully. My chicken "Yellow Daisy" is cute!

[描写动物的英语作文（含翻译）

I have a few small goldfish, they are lively and lovely, I like them very much. Small goldfish small and exquisite, there is a pair of grapes like big eyes, maple-shaped tail, the back of the fin fins to it that gold body fitted with a beautiful big fan.

Little goldfish eat very special. Once, I put a few fish food thrown into the water, a few fish met, quickly swim up to compete for fish food. I thought they would swallow up immediately, but their actions surprised me: grab the food of the fish first in the food in his mouth, and then spit out the food, and then swim up to catch it with the mouth, and finally The food completely swallowed it in the stomach. Where is the food, it is clear in the game it!

Little goldfish sleep more interesting! One night on the night I secretly got out of bed, by the outside of the faint light to see the small goldfish, found that small goldfish motionless, eyes also greatly open. I thought: they will not die! So knocked on the fish tank, a few small goldfish but quickly wandered. I suddenly realized, remembered the previous mother told me: "fish is no eyelids."

One morning, when I had breakfast, I went to see them. There are many small goldfish feces floating in the fish tank, the water has been turbid, and that they change the water. I carefully put the fish tank to the pool side, want to catch the fish ready to clean the basin. I was about to reach into the fish tank, my mother immediately stopped me: "Go and wash your hands, your hands have the taste of hand cream, will kill the fish!" I quickly wash your hands, and then stroked the sleeves, Began to catch fish. Hey! Fish really flexible, while fled to the east, while the channeling west, but how can not escape my palm. I was proud of it, "rip" it slipped away, I spent a lot of effort, and finally all the fish into the basin of water. And then the fish tank in the dirty water drained, and rinse, and finally the pot of fish and water poured into the fish tank.

Small goldfish really interesting! I think, as long as careful observation, after their own will find the little goldfish more special.

The significant inscription found on an old key "If I rest, I rust" would be an excellent motto for those who are afflicted with the slightest taint of idleness. Even the most industrious might adopt it with advantage to serve as a reminder that, if one allows his faculties to rest, like the iron in the unused key, they will soon show signs of rust and, ultimately, cannot do the work required of them.

在一把旧钥匙上发现了一则意义深远的铭文——如果我休息，我就会生锈。对于那些懒散而烦恼的人来说，这将是至理名言。甚至最为勤勉的人也以此作为警示：如果一个人有才能而不用，就像废弃钥匙上的铁一样，这些才能就会很快生锈，并最终无法完成安排给自己的工作。

Those who would attain the heights reached and kept by great men must keep their faculties polished by constant use, so that they may unlock the doors of knowledge, the gate that guard the entrances to the professions, to science, art, literature, agriculture --- every department of human endeavor.

有些人想取得伟人所获得并保持的成就，他们就必须不断运用自身才能，以便开启知识的大门，即那些通往人类努力探求的各个领域的大门，这些领域包括各种职业：科学，艺术，文学，农业等。

Industry keeps bright the key that opens the treasury of achievement. If Hugh Miller, after toiling all day in a quarry, had devoted his evenings to rest and recreation, he would never have become a famous geologist. The celebrated mathematician, Edmund Stone, would never have published a mathematical dictionary, never have found the key to science of mathematics, if he had given his spare moments to idleness. Had the little Scotch lad, Ferguson, allowed the busy brain to go to sleep while he tended sheep on the hillside instead of calculating the position of the stars by a string of beads, he would never have become a famous astronomer

勤奋使开启成功宝库的钥匙保持光亮。如果休米勒在采石场劳作一天后，晚上的时光用来休息消遣的话，他就不会成为名垂青史的地质学家。著名数学家爱德蒙斯通如果闲暇时无所事事，就不会出版数学词典，也不会发现开启数学之门的钥匙。如果苏格兰青年弗格森在山坡上放羊时，让他那思维活跃的大脑处于休息状态，而不是借助一串珠子计算星星的位置，他就不会成为著名的天文学家。

Labor vanquishes all --- not inconstant, spasmodic, or ill-directed labor, but faithful, unremitting, daily effort toward a well-directed purpose. Just as truly as eternal vigilance is the price of liberty, so is eternal industry the price of noble and enduring success.

劳动征服一切。这里所指的劳动不是断断续续的，间歇性的或方向偏差的劳动，而是坚定的，不懈的，方向正确的每日劳动。正如要想拥有自由就要时刻保持警惕一样，要想取得伟大的，持久的成功，就必须坚持不懈地努力。

Although my hometown is in the middle of the countryside, but there elegant environment, ma of farmland, green, relaxed and happy making a person!

Walk on the path of the field, breathing the fresh air, the grass is green and luxuriant., at the foot of the flowers smile. This beautiful scene, let me nervous mood ease up.

Come to my house along the quiet and tastefully laid out and the path. Sitting in a small yard, the first thing you encounter is a few lush poplar tree. They are tall, like a guard to protect our home, thank you, lovely poplar. Through the gap of poplar and is layered terraces, green seedlings are thriving, the farmer uncle of the field are weeding them sweating in the hot sun. To the autumn harvest, they are hard-working, I silently raised an admiration of love.

Yard was clear the left side of the lotus pond, lotus leaves with a blooming lotus flower, lotus leaf strips under small fish in the chase; Hiding in the lotus lotus seed, how to pick a flower! "Little Eva hold boat, white lotus back. Dont understand Tibetan, duckweed open." Bai juyis "pool" emerge in my mind. How I want to do a small bai juyis Eva, to enjoy the lotus pond in boundless fragrance.

Garden on the right side is the kitchen, the kitchen has a thick bamboo forest. Cicadas do not know where, only to hear "see, see" a cry.

Looked up at the sky cbsi, look down at yard before the clear brook, to listen to the song of the birds cry, is really "people in the middle", home feels good!

我的家乡虽然在偏僻的农村，但那儿环境优雅，漫山遍野的农田，绿油油的，令人心旷神怡!

漫步在田间的小路上，呼吸着新鲜的空气，脚下小草青翠欲滴，花儿眉开眼笑。这美好的情景，让我紧张的心情一下子舒缓起来。

顺着幽雅的小路来到我家。坐在小院里，首先映入眼帘的是院边几棵郁郁葱葱的杨树。它们高大挺拔，像一个个卫士保护着我们的家园，谢谢你们，可爱的杨树。透过杨树的空隙望去，是层层叠叠的梯田，绿油油的秧苗正在茁壮成长，田间的农民伯伯正在除草，他们在炎炎的烈日下挥汗如雨。为了秋季的丰收，他们不辞辛劳，我的心里默默地升起一股敬佩之情。

庭院左侧是清澈的荷塘，荷叶上顶着一朵朵盛开的荷花，荷叶下一条条小鱼在追逐嬉戏;荷花里藏着一朵朵莲子，多么想摘一朵呀!“小娃撑小艇，偷采白莲回。不解藏踪迹，浮萍一道开。”白居易笔下的《池上》浮现在我的脑海里。我多想做一次白居易笔下的小娃，去尽情享受荷塘里无边的清香。

庭院右侧是厨房，厨房后有一片茂密的竹林。蝉不知在哪里，只听见“知了，知了”一片叫声。

抬头仰望瓦蓝的天空，低头看看院落前清澈的小溪，侧耳倾听鸟儿的啼叫，真是“人在画中游”啊，家乡给人的感觉真好!

My family has a smart, sensitive kitten, my grandmother gave me, I called it Cong Cong.

Cong Maos hair is black, the hair on the limbs is yellow, long beard, sensitive ears, as well as a pair of pearl-like bright eyes, very lovable.

Cat and mouse is a matter of course, Cong Cong found the mouse, the pounce up, with the front jaws to seize the mouse, hold down the fixed, then eat the mouse.

My family Cong Cong is a clever cat, but also a small lazy cat, sometimes just a good cat, and sometimes only greedy cat ... ...

I put it in my arms, like holding a piece of cotton as soft, really comfortable. It was so cute that he was sleeping in my hands motionless.

I really like this kitten. Its my playmate, its my pet.

Last summer my classmates and I went to visit the the Great Wall it was a memorable trip the bus ride our morning after breakfast.

Hair spent nearly an hour. The Great Wall is one of the great wonders of the world the the Great Wall has a history of two thousand years about 8850 kilometers about 10 meters high 8 meters wide such walls isdifficult to build in the absence of modern machines so the work has Hand made. The ancient emperor built the the Great Wall in order to protect the Chinese now the Great Wall became places of historic interest and scenic beauty standing in the the Great Wall we experience the "less than the Great Wall of non hero" this famous saying Chinese.

There are four seasons a year, each season has a different view, and my favorite winter snow when the magnificent scenery. Winter, snow people seem to have come to a quiet and quiet state, came to a crystal clear through the fairy tale world. Loose that fragrance, snow that fragrant, giving a cool soothing comfort. Everything is in the filter, everything in the sublimation, even my mind is also purified, become pure and beautiful.

Dusk of snow, deep cut, as if inextricably emotional like, and like the general sea surging, to drown everything, there is a trace of open-end exposed like a sense of nudity. Snowflakes form thousands, crystal translucent, as if the expedition of the soldiers, wearing silver armor, but also like a piece of white sail in the voyage ... ...

The magnificent scenery in the snow, between heaven and earth seamless, can only see a silver, as if the whole world is decorated with silver.

After the snow, that snowy snow decorated the world, Qiongzhi Yu Ye, powder loaded jade puzzle, Hao Ran same color, really faction Ruixue Fengnian gratifying scene.

I love the snow, I love the snow, I love the winter. Winter is the ring of the soul. Winter, although very cold, but it has unparalleled warmth and hope.

chritmas is the day that jesus christ was born. people in the world celebrate and worship this day in his honor. the santa claus will come out and send presents for children. christmas cards and decorated trees are all over the place. the carolling of christmas songs echo through the air. i am not a chirstian, but i also enjoy the atmosphere of chrismas. i wish everybody have a merry chirismas.

[关于描写圣诞节的英语作文

Spring Festival is the most important festival in China .

In the evening before the Spring Festival ,families get together and have a big meal .In many places people like to set off firecrackers .

Dumplings are the most traditional food .Children like the festival very much ,because they can have delicious food and wear new clothes .

They can also get some money from their parents.This money is given to children for good luck .People put New Year scrolls on the wall for good fortune.

I like the flowers of spring, prefer the fruits of the fall of the land everywhere.

Autumn sky is particularly charming. You see, the sky is so high, then blue, looks particularly clean, like washed the same. The sky of white clouds, for a while into a sheep, for a while into a cow, while again into a mountain, river, very interesting.

Field, the golden rice laughed, from afar, endless rice fields like a golden ocean. The sorghum burns its own torches, as if it were illuminated by the peasant uncle! The corn from the thick clothes inside secretly flashed his beautiful "curly hair", the cotton girl exposed the white smile. People are busy in the ground, everywhere a bumper harvest,

Orchard, the apple exposed red face, Huang Chengcheng oranges, red glowing persimmon like a small lanterns like hanging in the tree, you squeeze me touch, as if waiting for people to pick it, the air filled with fruit Sweet taste.

In the park, chrysanthemum opened. Into the door, they smell the scent of chrysanthemum. Some chrysanthemum or budding flowers bones children, and some just open, and some have been completely open, colorful, contests, very beautiful!

Leaves yellow, a piece of yellow leaves floating in the wind, like a dancing only yellow butterfly; grass is also like a big yellow to the ground covered with a warm yellow cotton quilt.

Autumn is really beautiful, I like autumn.

In winter, all the leaves are withered, but still standing snow green pines and verdant cypresses, no matter how pressure, they wont fall down. Summer flowers, almost withered winter, plum blossoms are still blooming.

The children ran out into the open. Some were making snowmen, some were skiing, and others were skating...... There are many hibernating animals in winter, such as pythons, ants, hedgehogs, bears and frogs. They sleep on a winter and wake up in spring. Its really a long sleep!

There are many natural phenomena in winter, such as cold currents. What is cold current? It is the flow of water from high latitudes to low latitudes.

Although winter is cold, but full of fun, it is a wonderful season!

The stars look forward to the moon, and at last we look forward to Christmas.

Christmas is a happy holiday. As soon as I think about it, my heart will bloom a brilliant flower, happy and excited.

On Christmas day, all the days of the cold, raining outside snow. But the cold weather could not stop the happy steps of Christmas. There are beautiful Christmas trees in front of the shops in the street, and the staff in the supermarket are also wearing a lovely Christmas hat.

This evening my cousin, aunt and uncle, walked out of the door, everywhere can see the "floating" in the window of the shop "Snow", shops on both sides of the Christmas tree full of Santa Claus and toys, and lights in a riotous with colour light, people crowded a bit crowded, people holding many to buy things, the car to and fro, The stream never stops flowing. We walked on the street and heard a lot of Christmas songs, and I started to humming.

We walked into the clothing store and the clerks were busy entertaining customers. I left the right choice, that is, I cant find my favorite clothes. Suddenly, my eyes found a red and blue dress, then uncle brought a look dark clothes, with funny tone: "good looking?" I see, head shaking like a rattle. I took this piece of blue and red clothes and said: "I have to dress." Uncle agreed without hesitation. But uncle saw the price, with the manager a lot of bargaining, finally put 450 yuan the price becomes 300 yuan. So I returned home with satisfaction.

At home, I couldnt wait to put my socks beside the pillow. I slept in bed, while I waited for Santa to hide the gift in my socks, close my eyes, and I fell asleep unconsciously.

Tinsel was also invented in Germany in about 1610. Up until fairly recently real silver was used, which was pulled into wafer thin strips by special machines. This was durable but tarnished quickly and mmany experiments took plaace to try and find an alternative - including a mix of lead and tin, which was too heavy and kept breaking. It was only in the mid 20th century that a viable alternative was found.

Artificial trees were invented in the 1880s in a bid to try and stop some of the damage being caused to real trees due to people lopping the tip off large trees, thus preventing the trees from growing any further. It got so bad in Germany that laws had to be brought in to prevent people having more than one tree.

Prince Albert, husband of Queen Victoria, is credited with being responsible for introducing the custom of the Christmas tree to the British public by decorating the first English Christmas tree at Windsor Castle in 1841 using candles, sweets, fruit and gingerbread.

The popularity of the Christmas tree grew in Britain during the first half of the 20th century, with trees becoming bigger and more elaborately decorated with bells, baubles and tinsel. However, the onset of the Second World War resulted in a ban on cutting down trees for decoration and people resorted to having small, artificial tabletop trees bearing home made decorations. These were often taken down into the air raid shelters when the sirens sounded to provide a bit of Christmas cheer!