Everyone, especially children, are looking forward to

Christmas.

In December they get Advent calendar.

Every day they take some sweetness from it.

People make or buy Advent

wreath with four candles. Every

Sunday before Christmas one

candle is lighted.

Gingerbread

ornaments,

Bethlehems and

cottages are very

popular.

Gingerbread ornaments before decorating.

December 5th we celebrate Saint

Nicholas Day. St. Nicholas with angels

and devils come to schools in the

morning.In the evening they come to

children s homes.

Children are asked if they were good. Children have

to say a rhyme or sing a song. Good children get

fruits and candies. Bad children can get potatoes or

coal and devil can puts them into the bag and take

them to the

hell.

We bake Christmas cookies: vanilla

rolls,bear paws,bee hives, linz circles and

rods,nuts with stuffing…

Every housewife wants to make

many kinds of cookies.

It is the most important day .

Everyone is looking forward to the

evening. After dinner Ježíšek (baby

Jesus) brings gifts.

December 24th

We eat Christmas bread for breakfast.

Bread is woven from 9 rollers of sweet

yeast dough with raisins and almonds.We

eat it with butter or jam.

Children watch fairy tales on TV.

Usually we eat sauerkraut soup with

cream for lunch.After lunch some

people visit graves of relatives.

If you don t eat anything

whole day you can see a gold

pig in the evening.

The most ceremonial meal is dinner.

We put coins or notes under the

plates and fish scale into a purse to

have enough money for the next year.

When the 1st star shows up in the sky

Christmas Eve dinner can begin.

The first course: The second course is

fish or pea soup. usually fried carp

with potato salad.

There are many recipes for potatosalad. Salad is prepared from boiled

potatoes, carrots, celery, parsley, peasand mayonnaise.

Desserts: cookies, apple strudel.

After dinner

we sing carols

and keep old

traditions, e.g.

cut apples into

halves. Star

means life and

cross means

death.

star

We make little boats from walnut

shells with a candle inside. Boats

float in a bowl with water, and we

can see if family stays together or

splits up.

We also heat lead or wax in the spoon

and then we pour it into the water.

Created shape show us what awaits.

Girls throw a shoe over a shoulder to

find out, if they get married next

year.

Toe shoes headed to the door,

the girl gets married.

o popular poinsettia

Children are very impatient after

dinner.They are waiting for presents. They

believe that the baby Jesus (Ježíšek) brings

presents.When the bell rings, children run

for them. They can find them under the

Christmas tree.

Families visit each other and give

gifts. Children play with new toys.

Festive lunch in these days is e.g.

poultry: roast duck, goose or turkey

with cabbage and dumplings. A lot of

people go to the mountains to skiing

and snowboarding. Children make

snowmen.

December 25th and 26th

Also, we go to church to look at

the crib.

Merry Christmas

Veselé Vánoce

and

a

a happy New Year.

šťastný nový rok.