Winter Holiday Fun
Try our Holiday Brainteasers!
![Christmas elf](/sites/niehs-kids/files/kids/assets/images/img26987.png)
Each puzzle box "illustrates" a common word or phrase heard during the holiday season. Can you guess what it is?
![noel](/sites/niehs-kids/files/kids/assets/images/img796899.jpg)
Noel (no l)
![ps on earth](/sites/niehs-kids/files/kids/assets/images/img796886.jpg)
Peace on Earth!
![holiday cheer](/sites/niehs-kids/files/kids/assets/images/img796883.jpg)
Christmas Cheer!
![salt and pepper](/sites/niehs-kids/files/kids/assets/images/img796885.jpg)
Season's Greetings!
![deck the halls](/sites/niehs-kids/files/kids/assets/images/img796884.jpg)
Deck the Halls with Boughs of Holly!
![holiday happiness](/sites/niehs-kids/files/kids/assets/images/img796882.jpg)
Joy to the World!
![rock and bells](/sites/niehs-kids/files/kids/assets/images/img796881.jpg)
Jingle Bell Rock!
Now...on to some
Holiday Double-Speak Brainteasers!
Decipher these Holiday-related songs or phrases! Each description represents a common song or line from a song heard during the holiday season. Some of the songs may be used more than once but with different descriptions. You will learn a few new words and their meanings if you read carefully and compare the answers to the statements!
- Bleached Yule
Reveal Answer?White Christmas
- Castaneous-colored Seed Vesicated in a Conflagration
Reveal Answer?Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire
- Singular Yearning for the Twin Anterior Incisors
Reveal Answer?All I Want for Christmas is My Two Front Teeth!
- Righteous Darkness
Reveal Answer?Oh Holy Night
- Arrival Time: 2400 hrs - Weather: Cloudless
Reveal Answer?It Came Upon a Midnight Clear
- Loyal Followers Advance
Reveal Answer?Oh Come All Ye Faithful
- Far Off in a Feeder
Reveal Answer?Away in a Manger
- Array the Corridor
Reveal Answer?Deck the Halls
- Our Monarchial Triad
Reveal Answer?We Three Kings
- Nocturnal Noiselessness
Reveal Answer?Silent Night
- Jehovah Deactivate Blithe Chevaliers
Reveal Answer?God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
- Red Man En Route to Borough
Reveal Answer?Santa Claus is Coming to Town
- Frozen Precipitation Commence
Reveal Answer?Let it Snow
- Proceed and Enlighten on the Pinnacle
Reveal Answer?Go Tell it on the Mountain
- The Quadruped with the Vermillion Proboscis
Reveal Answer?Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer!
- Query Regarding Identity of Descendant
Reveal Answer?What Child Is This?
- Delight for this Planet
Reveal Answer?Joy to the World
- Give Attention to the Melodious Celestial Beings
Reveal Answer?Hark the Herald Angles Sing!
- The Dozen Festive 24 Hour Intervals
Reveal Answer?The Twelve Days of Christmas
- Sunset to Sunrise Without Noise
Reveal Answer?Silent Night
- Minuscule Hamlet In The Near East
Reveal Answer?Oh Little Town of Bethlehem
- Mirthful Ancient Despot
Reveal Answer?Jolly Old Saint Nicholas
- Adorn The Vestibule
Reveal Answer?Deck the Halls
- Delight Directed Toward This Comprehensive Place
Reveal Answer?Joy to the World
- Listen, Aerial Sprites Vocalize Musically
Reveal Answer?Hark the Herald Angels Sing
- Our Trio Of Monarchs
Reveal Answer?We Three Kings
- Yonder In The Hay Rack
Reveal Answer?Away in a Manger
- Cherubim Providing Audio Input to Us From Aloft
Reveal Answer?Angels We Have Heard on High
- Assemble, Everyone Who Loyally Believes
Reveal Answer?O' Come All Ye Faithful
- Hallowed Post Meridian
Reveal Answer?O' Holy Night
- Snow-colored December Holiday
Reveal Answer?White Christmas
- Precious Metal Tintinnabulations
Reveal Answer?Silver Bells
- A Dozen Twenty-Four Hour Yule Periods
Reveal Answer?The Twelve Days of Christmas
- Befell During The Transparent Bewitching Hour
Reveal Answer?It Came Upon a Midnight Clear
- Homo Sapien Of Crystallized Vapor
Reveal Answer?Frosty the Snowman
- Solely Desire A Pair Of Incisors On December 25
- I Spied My Maternal Parent Osculating a Gift Bearer
Reveal Answer?I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus
- Perambulating Through A December Solstice Fantasy
Reveal Answer?Walking in a Winter Wonderland
- Move Hither The Entire Assembly Of Those Who Are Loyal In Their Belief
Reveal Answer?Oh Come All Ye Faithful
- Embellish Interior Passageways
Reveal Answer?Deck the Halls
- Vertically Challenged Adolescent Percussionist
Reveal Answer?Little Drummer Boy
- First Person Singular Experiencing An Hallucinatory Phenomenon Of A Natal Celebration Devoid Of Color
Reveal Answer?I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas
- Soundless Nocturnal Period
Reveal Answer?Silent Night
- Majestic Triplet Referred To In The First Person Plural
Reveal Answer?We Three Kings
- The Yuletide Occurrence Preceding All Others
Reveal Answer?The First Noel
- Valuable Metal Musical Devices
Reveal Answer?Silver Bells
- Omnipotent Supreme Being Elicit Respite To Ecstatic Distinguished Males
Reveal Answer?God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman
- Caribou With Vermillion Olfactory Appendage
Reveal Answer?Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
- Allow Crystalline Formations To Descend in Triplicate
Reveal Answer?Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow
- Jovial Yuletide Desired For The Second Person Singular Or Plural By The First Person Plural
Reveal Answer?We Wish You a Merry Christmas
- Commence Auditory Reception The Announcing Cherubs Vocalize
Reveal Answer?Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
- Kris Kringle Will Be Arriving In The City In The Not Too Distant Future
- Bipedal Traveling Through An Amazing Acreage During The Period Between December 21st And March 21st In The Northern Hemisphere
Reveal Answer?Walking in a Winter Wonderland
- Its Arrival Occurred At Twelve O'Clock During A Clement Nocturnal Period
Reveal Answer?It Came Upon a Midnight Clear
- Exclamatory Remark Concerning A Diminutive Municipality In Judea Southwest Of Jerusalem
Reveal Answer?Oh Little Town of Bethlehem
43-55 Correct: | You don't need any more yuletide spirit! |
30-42 Correct: | You could use a little something in your stocking! |
20-29 Correct: | Are you sure you have the right holiday? |
1-19 Correct: | Surely you jest?!! |
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