2020
Fun Stop
December 2020


“Fun Stop,” New Era, Oct. 2020, 42–43.

Fun Stop

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Fun Stop

The Extra Smile

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two young men shoveling snow

Faith is knowing spring does come eventually.

That takes a lot of faith right now.

Summer Bird

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fireplace with stockings hung on it and a table with cookies and a note

Dear Santa, If you want cookies next year, no more socks as presents!

Jon Clark

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elves in Santa’s workshop making toys, one doing math

No! No! No! We’re doing mass production, not math production.

Val Chadwick Bagley

Stocking Sorting

Can you spot three Christmas stockings with the same pattern?

Hink the Pinks with Boughs of Holly

What’s a hink pink (a rhyming word pair) for taking a short sleep after covering gifts in bright paper? A wrap nap! (Yes, the cheese is strong with these. Always.) Can you figure out the rest of the hink pinks? Some are more than two words.

  1. The primary equipment used by the pullers of Santa’s sleigh. _________________ _________________ _________________

  2. A none-too-fast, eight-passenger vehicle for toting around spherical persons made of frozen water. _________________ _________________ _________________

  3. Red-and-white sweet that is shaped like a shepherd’s crook and belongs to a super nifty person from Denmark. _________________ _________________ _________________ _________________

  4. Santa’s helper’s feeling of personal esteem that comes from having the right waist size for one of his kind. _________________ _________________ _________________

  5. A construction demolition side business run by, and named after, Santa’s first-listed reindeer. _________________ _________________

  6. The combined odors accompanying the tinkling of small, hollow, metal spheres. _________________ _________________ _________________ _________________

  7. An evergreen without any placards or emblems hanging from it. _________________ _________________ _________________ _________________

  8. The peril faced by a feeding trough for animals. _________________ _________________

  9. Exhaling vigorously into a small metal object to create a high-pitched note, thus alerting others that you’ve found more of the kiss-inspiring, parasitic flowering plant. _________________ _________________ _________________

  10. The hoisting of a present. _________________ _________________

Answers

Stocking Sorting

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stockings

See circled stockings in image.

Hink the Pinks with Boughs of Holly

1. reindeer main gear 2 snowman slow van 3. dandy Dane candy cane 4. Elf girth self-worth 5. Dasher Smasher 6. Jingle bells mingle smells 7. sign-free pine tree 8. manger danger 9. mistletoe whistle blow 10. gift lift