Decorate your home in style this Christmas with this fabulous Festive Holly Tinsel. This traditional tinsel features gorgeous holly accents in an assortment of either gold or silver, helping you add a lovely classic feel to your space. Perfect for draping over bookshelves, mirrors, mantelpieces, and more, as well as wrapping around your bannisters or tree. Fun Fact: This variety was first propagated and introduced in New York in 1950 by Kathleen K. Meserve. There are lots of different things you could draw at Christmas. Here are 8 Christmas drawing ideas for your children: Keep collections to yourself or inspire other shoppers! Keep in mind that anyone can view public collections - they may also appear in recommendations and other places. Your children could draw their own Christmas decorations on to this nice Christmas tree template. We also have a fun Christmas Symmetry Worksheet too.

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There’s a lot more to holly than its decorative aesthetics, however. Ilex is a dioecious plant, which means that female plants and female trees are separate from male plants and trees. Depending on the biological sex of the holly plant, you’ll staminate or pistillate flowers. A great activity both for practising reading Christmas-themed vocabulary, and drawing skills. Children will be asked to draw pictures of objects like holly, tinsel, snowflakes and more. Fun Fact: The fruit of Carolina holly is more elliptical than round , which can help to distinguish this variety from American holly, which is often growing nearby. Holly, or Ilex, is a plant genus made up of many hundreds of species. Depending on the species, holly can be evergreen or can be a deciduous holly. People can easily recognize this plant with its green leaves with bright red berries – but there is a lot of variety within the genus, too. A wide spectrum of traits distinguishes this broad group: spiny or full and luscious; bright or dark green; sun-loving or drought-tolerant. Fun Fact: Deer and 18 species of birds eat the red berries in the United States according to the USDA.During the Christmas period, doing craft activities can be a lovely way to spend time with your child (or to keep them occupied whilst you're busy!) It can be a good idea to set aside space or even a room in the house to help your child get creative.

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Fun Fact: Longstalked holly is salt-tolerant and able to thrive even in areas where there is significant air pollution . Keep the environment as accessible as possible, for example by keeping paper and craft materials in a special drawer or labelled box. But the folk significance of holly stretches even deeper into certain cultures’ collective history. For example, pre-Christian European traditions linked holly plants to various thunder gods. People planted holly outside their door, believing it would prevent lightning from striking the house. In Celtic mythology, the Holly King is often woven into lore as a giant and often linked to the “green man” archetype of Arthurian legend.

Today the plant is strongly associated with the Christmas season. In pre-victorian Europe, “Christmas trees” weren’t firs and spruces – they were holly trees . Holly plants are flowering perennials, flowering in spring and early summer. Bees conduct pollination, turning the small green ball inside female flowers into red fruit. Native regions of different Ilex species span from tropical regions to temperate zones and growth patterns vary from evergreen trees, evergreen shrubs, to climbers. This gorgeous Holly and Berry Tinsel is a brilliant way to decorate mantelpieces, staircase banners, shelves and more. Featuring artificial berries and holly leaves, this tinsel will help to create a traditionally festive home this Christmas. Fun Fact: Inkberry’s botanical name refers to the smooth leaves , in comparison to other holly species with sharp spikes.