Swedes celebrate many holidays and traditions, both religious and secular. Some of the major holidays and events discussed include Valentine's Day (celebrated by giving flowers, chocolate, and spending time with loved ones), Easter (coloring eggs, eating traditional foods like sausage and herring, and the Easter Bunny hiding sweets), Midsummer (the longest day of the year celebrated with food, singing, and dancing around a maypole), Christmas Eve (exchanging gifts if one has been nice, eating meatballs, herring, and ham, and watching Donald Duck together), and New Year's Eve (celebrating the past and coming year with fireworks and time with family and friends).

1. Swedish traditions
Svenska traditioner
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2. Valentine’s day
Alla Hjärtans Dag
We celebrateValentine’s
day in Sweden like
everyone else - by giving
away flowers, hearts,
chocolate and spend time
with the ones we love
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3. Easter
Påsk
Easter is a very important holiday
within Christianity. We celebrate it
by coloring eggs, eating
traditional easter food - sausage,
meatballs, eggs and herring(kind
of fish) and much more.
The Easter bunny comes with
easter-eggs that includes sweets
and hides it in the yard. During
easter we have one week holiday.
Some families also dress out, for
example as a Easter witch.
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4. Sweden’s National Day 6/6
Sveriges National Dag 6/6
On Swedens National
Day we celebrate the
Swedish flag and our
King. It’s a red day that
means we don’t need to
go to school. The
National Day has
nothing to do with any
religion. On this day we
eat a lot of cakes and
sweets.
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5. Midsummer
Midsommar
The 20th of June we
celebrate midsummer. It is
the longest day of the year.
The sun sets later. In the
north of Sweden the sun
never sets that day.
We celebrate it by eating a
lot of Swedish food like
meatballs, herring and a lot
more and singing and
dancing around a maypole.
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6. Kräft skiva
Crayfish party
We celebrate it with
friends and family.
Sometimes we cloth and
decorate a long table on
streets with neighbours or
with friends and family.
On Crayfish parties we
eat crayfish and a pie,
one of them is called
‘’Västerbottenpaj’’ in
Swedish.
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7. Halloween
We celebrate Halloweeen like
everyone else - by dressing up
and go trick or treat. People
who has lost someone
important in their lives go to
their graves and light a candle.
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8. Lucia 13th of December
We celebrate Lucia because we want
to remember the saint. We celebrate
by baking “lussekatter” and hot drinks.
And we also walk a “Luciatåg” and
sings Christmas songs and special
luciasongs. In the train there is a
Lucia who has a corona on her head
and behind her there is female
attendant and starboys.
Lussekatter
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9. Christmas
Julafton
We celebrate Christmas Eve with our
family at the home of anyone in the
family. The Santa Claus comes to our
homes and gives us gifts if we have
been nice.
Meatballs, herring and Christmas ham
are three typical dishes we eat on
Christmas Eve. A very special tradition
we have on Christmas eve is that we
watch “Kalle Anka på Julafton” (Donald
duck on Christmas) and some other
Disney scenes, 3 O’clock every year.
It’s always the same scenes except one
that is new.
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10. New years eve
Nyårsafton
We celebrate the year
that has been and is
coming with our friends
and families. At 12
O’clock we go out and
shoot fireworks or just
watch everyone elses
firework.
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11. Made by:
Mattias, Louise, Ronja,
Ellen, Kristinn
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