In the United Kingdom, Christmas traditions include decorating Christmas trees and hanging evergreen branches. Father Christmas, known as Santa Claus, delivers presents in stockings on Christmas Eve. On Christmas Day, a traditional English dinner includes roast turkey or goose, brussels sprouts, roast potatoes, cranberry sauce, and Christmas pudding, a boiled pudding containing dried fruit. The day after Christmas is called Boxing Day, when money was traditionally collected in clay boxes.

1. CHRISTMAS IN THE
UNITED KINGDOM

2. TRADITIONS
AND CUSTOMS
• They love to decorate
Christmas Trees and hang
up evergreen branches.
•One of England's
customs is mumming.
•The English gift giver is
called Father Christmas.
He wears a long red or
green robe, and leaves
presents in stockings on
Christmas Eve.

3. •Father Christmas
delivers them during
the night before
Christmas. The
Children leave an
empty stocking or
pillowcase hanging
at the end of the
bed.
•In England the day
after Christmas is
called Boxing Day
because boys used
to go round
collecting money in
clay boxes.

4. •In England Christmas
dinner was usually
eaten at Midday on
December 25, during
daylight.

5. The traditional Christmas dinner
A traditional English and British Christmas
dinner includes roast turkey or goose,
brussels sprouts, roast potatoes, cranberry
sauce, rich nutty stuffing, tiny sausages
wrapped in bacon and lashings of hot
gravy.

6. Turkey, sausages wrapped in bacon
and roast potatoes!

7. CHRISTMAS
PUDDING
Christmas pudding is a type of pudding
traditionally served on Christmas Day
(December 25) as part of the Christmas
dinner. It has its origins in medieval
England, and is sometimes known
as plum pudding or Christmas Pudding or
just "pud", though this can also refer to
other kinds of boiled pudding involving
dried fruit. Despite the name "plum
pudding," the pudding contains no actual
plums due to the pre-Victorian use of the
word "plums" as a term for raisins.

8. SOURCES
• www.santas.net
• www.thehistoryofchristmas.com

9. POWERED BY JOHN
AND CHRISTOS