Christmas Tree Decorations

[nq:1]So my Japanese students are asking me how to describe the colorful spherical ***** dangling from the branches of the classroom Christmas tree. Unfortunately I don't have an answer! I'm sure they had a name when I was a kid. Any ideas?[/nq]
The standard general term is "Christmas tree ornaments", though that includes things besides *****.

Steny '08!

[nq:2]So my Japanese students are asking me how to describe ... had a name when I was a kid. Any ideas?[/nq]
[nq:1]The standard general term is "Christmas tree ornaments", though that includes things besides *****.[/nq]
They're "baubles" here, although they're not that often described as such on the actual boxes.

Can I call them "globes"?

[nq:2]The standard general term is "Christmas tree ornaments", though that includes things besides *****.[/nq]
[nq:1]They're "baubles" here, although they're not that often described as such on the actual boxes.[/nq]
Baubles? That's the one I was racking my brains for. Now I can spend the week amusing myself listening to my students pronounce them "bouruberuzu" which will sound suspiciousl

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Even without all the foorah, you can always tell when Christmas is nearing by the glut of Clapper(tm) and Chia Pet(tm) ads on TV.
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Or, if the BrE are correct, "baubles", though for some reason I think of baubles as referring to other classes of objects.
In SparkE baubles are "bobbl

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[nq:1]So my Japanese students are asking me how to describe the colorful spherical ***** dangling from the branches of the classroom Christmas tree. Unfortunately I don't have an answer! I'm sure they had a name when I was a kid. Any ideas?[/nq]
I saw some boxes of them in the supermarket yesterday and I thought they were Easter eggs. Is it December already?

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} In SparkE baubles are "bobbles".
I thought those were the little statuettes you put on the back shelf of your car (NTBCW the statuettes on the dashboard). Are bobbles baubles? Can the subject even be discussed in SparkE?
I wouldn't call anything on

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