This document discusses Polish Christmas traditions. It describes how Polish families bake cookies like gingerbread and shortbread in December, attend special church meetings, and decorate their homes with candles and Christmas trees. On Christmas Eve, families share wafer, have a traditional meal of 12 dishes including fish and pierogi, and exchange presents after singing carols. They celebrate with family on December 25th and 26th by visiting relatives and eating special meals.

2. Baking cookies
(mosty gingerbread)
Going to Church
(every day in December-special meetings)
Decorating houses firstly with candles
during the Advent –later Christmas tree

3. In most houses
people in Poland
bake cookies.
Gingerbread and
shortbread ones are
very popular. We
decorate them in a
nice way

4. We go to church
almost every day
in December.
These are special
meetings
especially for
kids. We take
lanterns to the
church.

5. Every house and every
place is decorated with
Christmas tree. In our
school each class has a
tree to decorate.

6. Christmas Eve
During the Advent we prepare for this
special period.
Christmas Eve starts our Christmas
celebrations.
On this day we :
Share the wafer
Eat the special supper
Exchange presents after
the supper
Sing carols

8. Traditional
Christmas Eve
dishes (usually 12 dishes)

9. Sharing the wafer

10. The supper usually starts with sharing the wafer. Then we eat soup:
beetroot soup with ravioli or mushroom soup or fish soup

11. The main dish usually consists of potatoes, cabbage with
mushrooms and pierogi with cabbage and mushrooms. The main
thing is fish-mostly carp

12. Later comes the dessert: gngerbread cookies, moczka (tradition
typically from Silesia- it’s made of gingerbread and lots of dried fruit
and chocolate and nuts) and makówki (dessert also typical in our
region made of poppy, bread rolls, nuts, almonds and rasins and milk)

13. Great presents
We have Santa here too, but it comes on the 6th of December and brings us
presents. On Christmas Eve we got presents from Baby Jesus  We exchange
the presents after the Christmas Eve supper.

14. Singing carols
We love singing carols. We sing them not only in
churches. We sing them all Christmas time.

15. On the 25th and 26th we just spend time with our families.
We visit our relatives. We eat special dinners and just rest and eat
reeeaaaallllly a loooot!