During the twelve days until Christmas break, the King Street Chronicle will again present staff favorites from the holiday season.  This ninth edition will not include nine ladies dancing, but beloved Christmas songs, memories, recipes, movies, and crafts.

Song: Silent Night, performed by Ms. Taylor Swift.

Recipe: Fruit Pizza Christmas Wreath

Time: 80 minutes

Servings: 12 wreaths

Ingredients:

• Six ounces unsalted butter
• One-half cup granulated sugar
• One teaspoon vanilla extract
• One half teaspoon salt
• One and three-fourths cup all-purpose flour
• Eight ounces room temperature cream cheese
• One-fourth cup granulated sugar
• One teaspoon lemon juice
• One cup strawberries
• One cup blueberries
• One red apple sliced
• Two ounces mint leaves

Instructions:

 1. Cut out a hat, scarf, shoes, and feet from holiday-colored felt.

2. Using a hot glue gun, attach the wooden ball to the top of the pine cone.

3. The felt hat should be a cone shape.  Stick a bell to the tip of the hat and glue the bottom of the hat to the wooden ball.

4. Wrap the scarf made from felt around the pinecone.

5. Glue the two feet made from felt to the bottom of the pinecone.

6. Using a sharpie, make two dots for the eyes on the wooden ball.

7. Take a piece of string and glue the string to the back of the hat.

8. With the attached string, tie the elf to a garland or Christmas tree for decoration.

Movie: USS Christmas

“Maddie, a reporter for a Norfolk newspaper, embarks on a Tiger Cruise during Christmastime where she meets a handsome naval officer and stumbles upon a mystery in the ship’s archive room,” courtesy of hallmarkmoviesandmysteries.com.

Craft: Pinecone Elves 

Materials:

• Glue gun
• A small pinecone
• One wooden ball
• Three holiday-colored felt sheets
• One small bell
• Black sharpie
• Twine
• String

Instructions:

1. Cut out a hat, scarf, shoes, and feet from holiday-colored felt.

2. Using a hot glue gun, attach the wooden ball to the top of the pine cone.

3. The felt hat should be a cone shape.  Stick a bell to the tip of the hat and glue the bottom of the hat to the wooden ball.

4. Wrap the scarf made from felt around the pinecone.

5. Glue the two feet made from felt to the bottom of the pinecone.

6. Using a sharpie, make two dots for the eyes on the wooden ball.

7. Take a piece of string and glue the string to the back of the hat.

8. With the attached string, tie the elf to a garland or Christmas tree for decoration.

Memory: Ms. Janelle O’Neil

“My favorite Christmas Memory also accompanies my favorite Christmas tradition, and that is Christmas Morning Breakfast. My mom always made Monkey Bread and we made breakfast from a collection of items from Dakin Farm, located in Vermont. I still order breakfast items from Dakin Farm for my own Christmas Morning Breakfast, as their maple syrup is amazing.”

Featured image by Claire Moore ’22