Wednesday 9 December 2020

Nollaig Chridheil!

We’re sure that excitement must be starting to build in all of your houses for Christmas now!

We would love to be with you all making some Christmas crafts together and singing Christmas songs at circle time, but for this year we will just have to accept that virtual Cròileagan is the only way we can celebrate together. 

Some people have asked us if we could do a Zoom Cròileagan. We just thought we would quickly explain why won’t be able to do this. It’s simply because the City of Edinburgh Council have a policy of not using Zoom, and since all of us Playleaders are council employees then we have to follow their guidelines. There are other options that we are looking into and we will keep you posted as we know more ourselves.

So anyway, on with our Christmas virtual Cròileagan.

A few useful words for you are:

Nollaig Chridheil = Merry Christmas
Nollaig Chridheil agus Bliadhna Mhath Ùr = Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
Bodach na Nollaig = Father Christmas
An leanabh Ìosa = the baby Jesus
Craobh Nollaig = Christmas Tree
Cairt(ean) Nollaig = Christmas Card(s)
Feidh-Lochlannach = Reindeer

And a few phrases for if you are feeling confident...

Curranan airson na feidh-Lochlannach = carrots for the reindeer
Cuir a-mach curranan airson na feidh-Lochlannach = put out carrots for the reindeer
Tha bodach na Nollaig a’ tighinn a-màireach = Father Christmas is coming tomorrow
Deoch bainne airson Bodach na Nollaig = a drink of milk for Father Christmas
Cuir a-Mach deoch bainne airson Bodach na Nollaig = put out a drink of milk for Father Christmas

You can find the sound files for how to pronounce all of these here.

We are trying to keep our crafts simple, not too messy and using materials we think you will have at home. Here are a couple of our suggestions for this week.







To finish with we have a couple of song clips for you this week, with our old favourite, Glagan Binn - Jingle Bells. The first of these is a simple video with the words in Gaelic on the screen. It goes at a nice slow speed so you can take your time over learning the words. You can find it here  The second clip is a lovely one featuring children from the Gaelic unit in Greenock. This time the words are translated into English on the screen as they sing. You can find this one here.

We’ll be back again next week with some extra Christmas fun for you all.



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