Our Santa Face Door Hangers are 15 inches long and about 8 inches wide. They consist of a cloth Santa face with a Dark Emerald Green hat with white cuff decorated with four black X’s and a sprig of holly. Santa has a 1 inch diameter red pompom nose and a long full white beard. Hanging below Santa’s beard, from a white and gold cord, are two gold, 1 inch diameter metal bells. This Santa Face will jingle softly when your family and friends enter your home for the holidays. Select this link to view our Santa Gifts.
Bells.
The first bells came from China, but all ancient religions and societies used them for their ceremonies. Bells evolved from rattles into the sweet toned silver bells we have today, though the church did not use bells until the 6th century. The bells used by Santa’s helpers for charity came from the middle ages when the poor rang hand bells for alms. Select this link to view our Christmas Stockings.
Jingle Bells.
Jingle Bells is a winter carol written by James L. Pierpoint, that was originally entitled ‘One Horse Open Sleigh’. It was written for an 1857 Sunday School program in New York City. Pierpoint served with the Confederate cavalry in the American Civil War and was the uncle of financier J.P.Morgan. Select this link to view our Infant Santa Costumes.
History of Santa Claus
Born in the United States of mixed ethnic and religious heritage, Santa Claus embodies the American ideal of the nation as a great melting pot of cultural identities. Santa Claus became an important folk figure in the second half of the nineteenth century, about the time when Americans were beginning to celebrate Christmas in large numbers. Santa Claus bears a good deal of resemblance to his closest relative, the old European gift bringer St. Nicholas. Indeed “St. Nick” serves as one of Santa’s nicknames. Select this link to view our Christmas Tree Skirts.
Many popular songs tell of his North Pole and Christmas Eve activities. Nearly every American child can tell you that Santa is a plump, old man with a white beard who wears a baggy red suit and cap trimmed with white fur. Many send letters to his North Pole workshop describing the gifts they would like to receive for Christmas. They eagerly await Christmas Eve, when he loads his sled with toys for good girls and boys and flies around the world, sliding down chimneys to place the presents under decorated Christmas trees. As if to confirm this Christmas fairy tale, men in Santa suits regularly appear on street corners, at office parties, and in department and toy stores around Christmas time. Select this link to view our Santa Stocking Holders.