Children love getting boxes of candy. Each Christmas, when I was young, our church had a Christmas program where the Sunday School Children were given parts we called “pieces” to recite. Christmas Carols were sung and sometimes they dressed up in house coats for acting out the parts of Mary and Joseph and the Wise Men and Shepherds. At the end of the service my father would pass out boxes of chocolates along with an Apple and a big Navel Orange to each person. The candy boxes were put together by our family a few days before. It is a very special Christmas memory.
Chocolate Drops and Hardtack (Childhood Details Collection)
Every Christmas we had a program and treats
Where children gathered to say their piece
Of wise men and Shepherds and Baby Jesus
Cute voices and smiles they always pleased us
Each year the words were much the same
Children emerged different but cute once again
Songs and carols filled the air
Everyone who came was glad to be there
At the end of each service treats were passed ‘round
Children waited anxiously with nary a sound
An apple an orange and a box of candy
Put together at our house by the preacher and family
Flat cardboards with pictures of camels and angels
Became boxes for candy when bent ‘to right angles
A string on top made them easy to carry
Rounded lids over lapped and ends were married
Chocolate drops and hardtack sorted and laid out
Gum drops and whole walnuts finished them out
Ends folded and crisscrossed to hold it all in
A hundred or more for everyone who attends
A special time for all and a simple treat
Topped off the season and kept us all sweet
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delightful … you are recollecting lots of childhood memories, nice
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Thank You! I have been digging through the cobwebs!
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