Christmas in the UK

In the United Kingdom, Christmas is a familiar celebration at home with the family. English people decorate their houses with the Christmas tree and send Christmas cards to family and friends.

Red and green are the colours of Christmas time. Green represents life. Red represents Jesus’ blood. People use natural materials to decorate their houses like holly, ivy and non natural materials like bells, and the nativity scene

Children at school represent Nativity Plays and all the family go to see the plays. They sing Christmas carols in the house and in the school.

Children are excited at Christmas Eve, they hang its averages around the chimney or on the feet of the bed so that Christmas Father (Santa Claus) fills them of flatteries.

IMPORTANT DAYS

Christmas Eve Christmas Eve is on 24th of Decembre. Is the day to Santa Claus come to his house.

Christmas day December 25th is Christmas Day. They celebrate Christmas in the United Kingdom. It's a holiday for most people, and there are lots of customs and traditions, and children get lots of presents!

Boxing Day In Britain, Boxing Day is usually celebrated on the following day after Christmas Day. Was the day to open the Christmas Box to share the contents with the poor.

New Year’s Eve and 1th Junuary England celebrates the New Year from the evening of December 31st into January 1st.. The observance of New Year's Eve generally extends through midnight of January 1 (New Year’s Day).

Decoration They decorate the house. They put Christmas tree with baubles, tinsel and light. Then they put a star on top the tree. Most people put up their decoration to a week before the Christmas.

MEALS

The Christmas Dinner is the main Christmas meal and is traditionally eaten at mid-day or early afternoon on Christmas Day in England and also in the rest of Britain.

A traditional English and British Christmas Dinner includes roast turkey, brussels sprouts, roast potatoes, cranberry sauce, rich nutty stuffing, tiny sausages wrapped in bacon (pigs in a blanket) and lashings of hot gravy. The traditional Christmas Dinner

For dessert they eat a rich fruity pudding which is doused in flaming brandy. This rich fruity pudding is called the Christmas Pudding. The Christmas pudding is a brown pudding with raisins, nuts and cherries. It is similar to fruitcake, except that pudding is steamed and fruitcake is baked.

Christmas Crackers Christmas Crackers are very popular and accompany many meals over the Christmas period, especially on Christmas Day. A Christmas Cracker is a brightly coloured paper tube, twisted at both ends. A person pulls on each end of the cracker and when the cracker breaks, a small chemical strip goes “Pop” and the contents fall out. Crackers are very traditional items to have at Christmas.

An English Christmas Tea Christmas tea is enjoyed by family and friends. They invite aunts, uncles and friends to a party of games and fun. They eat Christmas tea about 6 p.m.

Presents

CHRISTMAS EVE All children of the UK wish the presents for Christmas. They write a letter to Santa Claus with all the presents that they want. Santa Claus makes the presents with a lot of elves in the North Pole.

On 24th December, when all children are sleeping, he comes sitting in his sleigh and flies across the sky with his reindeers to give the presents that all children had wished.

CHRISTMAS DAY On Christmas day (25th December), children get up very early in the morning to open their presents in the stockings before breakfast. Time later, all the family is together looking to the children under the Christmas tree opening their presents.

Santa Claus What is he like? Santa Claus is an old, fat and jolly man. He has got blue eyes, white hair, a beard and a moustache and his cheeks are rose. He is dressed in a red suit outlined in white.

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!