CHRISTMAS TRADITIONS

🎂FOOD🎂

• People all around the world use food traditions to celebrate Christmas
• Like in America🇺🇸 we leave cookies out for Santa🍪
• In Mexico🇮🇹 they make tamales
• In Russia🇷🇺 they hang oranges🍊 on there Christmas trees🎄
• All delicious😋

🎄DECORATIONS🎄

• Everyone has decorations from beautifully decorated christmas trees🎄 to tiny
• Santa🎅 figurines.
• People put up decorations to remind them more of christmas🎁🎄
• Traditional decoration colors are pine green, snow white and heart red
• Also Catholic Christains put up Nativity scenes to remind them of Jesus' B-day

✨CHRISTMAS LIGHTS✨

• Christmas lights are equally beautiful and magical
• Magical as in...
• Legend says that if the Christmas lights aren't lit on
• Christmas eve Santa🎅 won't be able to find his way
• and deliver 🎁presents🎁

🎵CAROLING🎵

• Caroling: to sing or say something happily, usuallay a christmas song
• People carol in groups and go house to house or just carol to a holiday CD💿
• People like to carol because study shows caroling/singing improves the mood☺️
• A very famous caroling song is Jingle Bells🔔
• It's a great song to listen to if your dashing through the snow❄️

🎅SANTA🎅

• Santa known as the one who "delivers" our presents🎁
• Really he's St. Nickholas.
• In England Father Christmas🎅
• In Russia Father Frost❄️
• Both equally special to every little kid.

REINDEER

• Reindeer/carabu are real but they can't fly
• They love carrots just like "flying reindeer"
• A very famous movie with a reindeer in it is
• Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer

⛄️SNOWMEN⛄️

• A very big tradition around Christmas is making snowmen
• But you have to have snow❄️
• It's fun to build snowmen then go inside and have a warm cup of hot cocoa☕️

🙏SNOWANGELS🙏

• Another fun thing to do in the snow is make snow angles
• Snow angles are fun to make and also remind people of
• Jesus' birthday🎉

FUN FACTS ABOUT CHRISTMAS

• People love Santa
• People like to decorate with snowglobes
• Christmas trees are decorated with ordaments
• People like to drink hot cocoa
• People like to put up stockings