Our local museum has the old 1-room Horse Creek School included in the Pioneer Townsite Museum complex. It is completely furnished as a 1920s working school house. My wife and I took my Mother (82 y/o) to it for the Christmas program just a few nights ago, and took in the program of how and what Christmas was like back in the 20s. The program was an enactment of what the school children would normally be doing in the school in preparation for Christmas time.
Anyone that wanted to could help make paper chains using old catalog pages cut into strips for the links and held together with home-made glue composed of flour and water, make popcorn strings with needle and thread, make hanging cone-shaped gift holders out of rolled catalog pages and a pipe cleaner bail to hang on the tree, or make tree decorations by tying thread onto a walnut leaving a loop coming off of it for a hanger and wrapping the nut with used tin foil.
The tree was in a bucket with rocks holding it up straight and providing weight to steady the tree.
We all had fun remembering.
CD in Oklahoma