Christmas

NZ Christmas

Christchurch Coca-Cola Christmas in the Park: Saturday 24 November 2007 at North Hagley Park. Magic and music, singing and dancing, fireworks and fabulous non-stop entertainment.
Carols and Christmas in the Community: A localeye feature on Christmas music and events in Christchurch and Canterbury communities for Christmas 2007.
NZ Post Christmas: Find out the mailing dates for Christmas cards & packages, plus Santa's address for letters or send him a message from the website.

Christmas cards - KiwiCard: Uniquely New Zealand electronic postcards featuring Pohutukawa, Fred Dagg and other Kiwi standards.
New Zealand Christmas Songs: From New Zealand Folk Song.
Pohutukawa: Information from the Department of Conservation on the New Zealand Christmas Tree (Metrosideros excelsa) (Myrtaceae), or pohutukawa. See also Project Crimson, a charitable conservation Trust that aims to protect New Zealand's native Christmas trees - pohutukawa and rata.
Xmas.co.nz: A New Zealand site featuring Christmas carols that play to you, and a countdown to Christmas including how many hours, minutes and sleeps to go. From NZ City.

Christmas photographs: Photos from our collections.
Christmas: A pool of photos illustrating Christmas in New Zealand from flickr.
Hay's Parade: More photos from our collection.
Summer Holidays: These photographs and paintings capture the feeling of the summer holidays … Long hot days invite dreams of Christmas, vacations at the bach, forests full of shade, early morning birdsong, jandals and togs full of sand.

NORAD tracks Santa: Every Christmas Eve since 1958 NORAD has tracked Santa's journey around the world.
Christmas Legends: From the Urban Legends Reference Project - take the test and find out how much you know about our Christmas beliefs.
Claus.com: "The Merriest Place in CyberSpace". Become an honourary elf at elf school, play with the reindeer, and check your naughty or nice rating.
Elf Yourself: Turn yourself or family and friends into a cute Christmas elf and get a singing dancing image you can share for Christmas.

Merry Christmas.com: Recipes, games and craft ideas.
Santa's Village: Visit Santa, Mrs. Claus and the elves at the North Pole. Mrs. Claus is cooking up a storm in the kitchen while the elves are sorting the mail and Santa relaxes in his den. Lots of stories, colouring and games.

Australian Christmas: From culture and recreation Australia - includes .links to Christmas Art
Christmas Greetings around the world: Christmas greetings in many languages.
Why Christmas: Explains the background to many Christmas traditions and different traditions around the world and this year will have a Podcast Advent Calendar.
How Christmas Works: Q & A guide to Christmas traditions and customs.
Christmas: from Infoplease.
Holidays.net: brings you loads of information on holidays throughout the year and Christmas is no exception.