1. Traditions in Slovakia
Základná škola s materskou školou
Viliama Záborského
Vráble
Slovakia
Made for Erasmus+ project - My country, your country
2. • In our club Erasmus –We communicate with Europe - we
concentrated ourselves to traditions and habits in Slovakia
connected with past and present.
• In Slovakia we keep a lot of traditions of various festivals,
seasons and occasions.
• We rememer a lot of traditios also at our school in our folk
club called prvosienka – Primerose.
• In this our presentation you can find the most famous
Slovakian traditios kept till this time.
3. Carnival time called Fašiangy in Slovakia
• Fašiangy is time after Christmas and before the lent – in
January and February.
• It´s time of fun and carnivals, mask balls,
a lot of meals, sweets. We have carnivals
at school each year.
Sweets – cakes typical for this time are – šišky
– bans and „fánky“. We often cooked them at
school.
4. Spring tradition - Morena
• Morena is the tradition from the past.
• It was kept 2 weeks before the Easter.
• People created wooden and straw
doll as the symbol of spring,
carried it tothe river or broom
singing a song, then throew it in the water.
• This way they said Goodbye to winter and welcomed
spring.
• We remind this tradition in our folk club „ Primerose“
almost each year.
5. Spring tradition – the Easter
• The Easter is Christian tradition typical for European countries
• It is also the holiday of the birth of life.
• Before Easter, we celebrated
Palm Sunday, when girls
use to go from house to house with
decorated twigs - singing and wishing the health.
• In Slovakia, we paint eggs before Easter.
• As a typical dish we can mention smoked
ham.
6. May - Building May for girls
• 1st May 1 is a public holiday in Europe - the festival of work –
and it is celebrated in all European countries.
• We have another nice habit in Slovakia on the 1st May.
• The boys build in front of the house
of the girls they like a huge branches
decrated with ribbons called „Mays“.
• We also celebrate 8th May in Slovakia
as the day of freedom of our country
and the end of World War II.
• On the second Sunday all children remember
their mothers because we celebrate Mother´s Day.
7. Autumn Traditions
• One of the Slovak autumn traditions is the exhibition of pumpkin
monsters called „Tekvičák“.
• It is a very beautiful tradition during the harvest of pumpkins - in
October.
• We carve pumpkin monsters
at school and at home.
We put candles in them.
• We show carved creations
at school, at home and in our city.
8. Harvest festival, Vintage
• After harvest, we celebrate the end of the harvest, the harvest of crops.
• In many regions, we often celebrate a festival called "Harvest
Festival" in Slovakia.
• In our Vráble region, we celebrate Vintage
because we live in a wine-growing area.
• People organize ceremonial parade,
walk, sing and dance in folk costumes.
• They also make beautiful wreaths from
vine twigs.
• This way they celebrate the end of the grape harvest. It's actually a
thank for a good harvest.
9. All Saints‘ Day
•In November, we remember those who left our world
forever, as well as all the saints.
•We go to the cemetery,
the graves and light candles
on them.
10. St. Martin on the white horse - 11 November
• 11th November is the day when St. Martin should come in
Slovakia on a white horse.
• People said it should start snowing on this day.
• That is why it was said and still
says today that Martin is coming
on a white horse.
11. The time before Christmas - Advent
• Before Christmas, there is an Advent season as the
preparation for Christmas time.
• We also make Christmas decorations at school,
in our city we have Christmas markets
and before the holidays,
we also have a crib festival
at school.
12. St. Nicholas – Mikuláš in
Slovakia
• On December 6, St. Nicholas - Mikuláš arrives in
Slovakia.
• He brings sweets to all good
children.
• Mikuláš comes with an angel.
13. Christmas
• Vianoce is celebrated on all over
the world in Christian families.
• Christians celebrate the coming
of Christ into this world, the
birth of Jesus.
• Christmas is the holiday of family,
peace and joy.
• The symbol is Christmas tree.
14. Christmas Eve dinner
• In Slovakia we have Christmas Eve – Štedrá večera on December 24
then we celebrate the birth of Christ – December 25 and the St.
Stephen - December 26.
• On 24th December at Christmas Eve dinner Slovakian people
meet at the family table in the evening, do some habits and
eat some typical meals: sauerkraut or lentil soup, potato salad
and fried fish.
• As the habbits we eat waffles, honey,
garlic, fruit.
On this day we meet at the Christmas
tree and give gifts to each other.
15. Thank you for interest
Pupils from Erasmus club
ZŠ s MŠ V. Záborského Vráble Slovakia
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