The document discusses many Christmas traditions in Poland, including: - Advent preparations like Advent calendars and building Christmas cribs. - Decorating Christmas trees on Christmas Eve or the day before for prosperity. - Eating 12 dishes on Christmas Eve to commemorate the 12 apostles, including carp, herring, kutia, and bigos. - Visiting family and exchanging gifts on the first and second days of Christmas.

1. Christmas in Poland

2. Preparations

5. Building Christmas cribs

10. Saint Nicholas in the kindergarden

11. As a every year tradition, we organise school christmas Eve for the students community

13. We give each other presents. 2 weeks before draw is organised, and everyone choose one person by lot and make present for him with his own hands.

14. It could be Christmas card

15. Some weird thing?

16. Homemade cakes

18. Christmas Eve for all of the teachers and the rest of the staff.

21. Christmas Eve

23. To commemorate the 12 apostles we prepare 12 dishes

24. Kutia - a mix of soaked wheat, raisins, nuts, honey and spices

26. Vegetable salad

28. With olive oil and onion

29. „under the quilt” with beetroot, eggs, carot, mayonnaise

30. With cream and apples

31. With tomates, onion,

32. raisins

33. Compote from dry fruits -apples, plums, pears, honey, cinnamone stick, cloves, lemon, orange...

34. Bigos

39. At First and Second Day of Christmas guests, usually family, visit us or we visit them

41. In a lot of families there's a tradition of smoking the ham.

43. Groups of young people dressed in traditional costumes walk along villages and sing carols wishing all the best for Christmas.

45. superstitions

46. Is believed that if a man with a woman stand under the mistletoe they will fall in love with each other.