1) Everyone looks forward to Christmas in December, when they get Advent calendars with sweets to eat each day and light candles on Advent wreaths each Sunday before Christmas. 2) Popular Christmas decorations include gingerbread ornaments, Bethlehems, and cottages. 3) On December 24th, families have a large ceremonial dinner with traditions like putting coins under plates and floating boats made of walnut shells in water. After dinner, children excitedly open presents from Baby Jesus under the Christmas tree. 4) Families visit each other on December 25th and 26th, exchange gifts, and enjoy festive meals and outdoor activities like skiing while children play with new toys.

2. Everyone, especially children, are looking forward to
Christmas.
In December they get Advent calendar.
Every day they take some sweetness from it.

3. People make or buy Advent
wreath with four candles. Every
Sunday before Christmas one
candle is lighted.

4. Gingerbread
ornaments, Bethlehe
ms and cottages are
very popular.

5. Gingerbread ornaments before decorating.

6. December 5th we celebrate Saint Nicholas
Day. St. Nicholas, angels and devils come
to school in the morning and to homes in
the evening.

7. They ask children whether they are good. Children have
to say the rhyme or sing song. Good children get fruit
and candy. Bed children can get potatoes or coal and
devil can puts them into the bag and take them to
hell.

8. We bake Christmas cookies-vanilla
rolls,bear paws,bee hives, linz circles and
rods,nuts with stuffing…

9. Every housewife wants to have
many kinds of cookies.

10. December 24th
It is the most important day .
Everyone is looking forward to the
evening. After dinner Ježíšek-baby
Jesus - brings gifts.

11. For breakfast we eat Chrismas bread.

12. It is woven from 9 rollers sweet yeast
dough with raisins and almonds.We eat it
with butter.

13. Children watch fairy tales on TV.

14. For lunch it is usually sauerkraut
soup with cream.Than some people
visit graves of relatives.
But who doesn t eat whole
day anything he can see a
gold pig in the evening.

15. 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 lights on the sky
Christmas Eve dinner can begin.

16. The first course- The second course is
fish or pea soup usually fried carp
and potato salad.
There are many recipes for this salad.
Salad is prepared from boiled
potatoes, carrots, celery, parsley, peas
and mayonnaise.

17. Desserts-cookies,apple strudel.

18. After dinner
we sing
carols, keep
old traditions –
cut apples in
half.Star means
life and cross
means death.
star

19. We make little boats from walnut
shells with a candle inside. Boats
float in a bowl of water, and we can
see if the family stays together or
splits up.

20. We also heat lead or wax in the spoon
and then we pour it in the water. The
shape that is created show to us what
awaits us.

21. Girls throw a shoe over a shoulder to
find out, if you get married next year.
Toe shoes headed to the door,
the girl gets married.
o popular poinsettia

22. Children are very impatient after
dinner.They are waiting for presents. They
believe that the baby Jesus –Ježíšek- brings
them.When the bell rings,they run for
presents. They are under the Christmas tree.

23. December 25th and 26th
Families visit and give gifts each
other.Children play with new toys.
Festive lunch in these days is e.g.
poultry-roast duck,goose or turkey
with cabbage and dumplings. More
people goes to the mountains.They
ski,snowboard,skates. Children make
snowmen.

25. Also, we go to church to look the
crib.

26. Merry Christmas
Veselé Vánoce
and
a
a happy New Year.
šťastný nový rok.