From homemade to handblown, Christmas ornaments carry traditions through the years and are cherished glimpses from Christmases past.
Christkindl has had many ornaments and souvenirs over the years (see our photo gallery below)!
The ONLY way to get all of this year's collectibles is to buy Christkind-in-a-Box! ($30 each, value $85, while supplies last) Click here for ways to buy.
This year, we've started a new tradition with a nutcracker gallery, hand decorated by local artists.
One hundred years ago, in the first decades of the 1900s, Christmas trees were decorated with a mix of homemade paper ornaments, paper chains, strings of popcorn, factory-made tinsel garlands, and blown glass ornaments. Blown-glass Christmas ornaments became popular in North America beginning in the 1880s, after F. W. Woolworth began importing them from Germany to sell in his department stores.
The manufacture of glass ornaments was a home-based cottage industry based in and around the village of Lauscha in Thuringia, Germany – with all members of the family completing a different task. Men blew the molten glass into a mould using a small gas burner; women coated the inside of ornaments with a silvering liquid; girls placed the ornaments on drying racks and coated the outside of the ornament with coloured lacquer. And depending on their artistic skills, every member of the family participated in painting decorations and applying “glitter.” Children were tasked with attaching the cap and hanger to the finished ornaments and packing them in boxes.
Glitzer, Funkel, Sternenglanz,
Ornamente machen ihren Tanz
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When you visit a Grand Harmony Chorus rehearsal, you'll feel energized by the sounds of pure harmony that surround you; the sheer beauty of over 40 voices coming together to create the power of 100 voices will bring goosebumps! As you listen to this amazing group of women sing, you’ll be tapping your toe and searching your soul as the melodies and harmonies create a whirlwind of emotion within you.
Grand Harmony Chorus is a dynamic all-female, all-ages, multi-award-winning Kitchener-Waterloo group that is passionate about singing four-part acappella harmony. This local show choir draws nearly 45 talented singers from the Kitchener, Waterloo, Cambridge, Listowel, St. Jacobs, Elmira, Orangeville and areas beyond.
Pearls and lace adorn this nutcracker.
View our whole collection in the Nutcracker Gallery and go visit the nutcrackers in all their glory displayed in downtown Kitchener on a self-guided walk.
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This easy, old fashioned, handmade recipe is a great craft idea for kids and adults. Learn how to make these long-lasting Christmas scented salt dough ornaments by following the simple instructions by Rocky Hedge Farm.
Using cookie cutters, yarn, sewing pins and a few other materials, create these fun, unique wrapped yarn ornaments for your Christmas tree in 2021 by One Little Project.
Looking for more inspiration? Here are 72 easy-to-make DIY Christmas ornaments you can make right at home using things already in your craft cupboard and pantry.
It is a very important time honoured tradition in our family - we really missed coming this year, seeing all of you, visiting all the nice booths and smelling all that great German food! We will be back next year.
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Christkindl Market
Kitchener, ON Canada
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The photos, videos and concerts presented on this website are a chance for visitors to relive Christkindl Markets from 1997 through 2019. In 2020 we were online only.