Holidays/Celebrations

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                    Holidays & Celebrations!

What is your favorite holiday?

What is the next holiday/celebration?

1. Pasen
2. Valentijnsdag
3. Suikerfeest
4. Verjaardag

Christmas           

Christmas           

Celebrated on: December 25th

Common words: Elves, Red, Presents, Reindeer, Candy Cane, Gingerbread House, Mistletoe, Caroling, Sleigh,  Santa

What words do you
connect to Christmas?

Text Kerstmis

Snow at Christmas is part of British culture. You often see it on Christmas cards, you can buy fake snow to decorate your house and there are many songs about snow at Christmas. It doesn’t snow every year in Britain, but many people hope for a white Christmas. People can bet on whether it will snow or not on 25 December too.

What is the best-selling Christmas song ever according to Guinness World Records?

1. (I'm dreaming of a) White Christmas
2. Last Christmas
3. All I want for Christmas
4. Driving home for Christmas

What words do you connect
to Easter?

Celebrated on: April 4th


Common words: Easter Egg, Bunny, Chocolate, Rabbit, Easter Basket, Good Friday, Chick

The biggest Easter egg in the world?

1. Is over five metres
2. Is over ten metres
3. Is over fifteen metres
4. Is over twenty metres

How many Easter Eggs are produced each year in the USA?

1. right around ten billion
2. Over forty billion
3. Over fifty billion
4. Over ninety billion

Text Pasen

The first chocolate Easter egg in England was made in Bristol back in 1873. The United States of America produces 91.4 billion chocolate Easter eggs each and every year, as well as 90 million chocolate bunnies. 

The tallest Easter egg was created in Italy in 2011. It was a mighty 10.39 metres high and weighed 7,200kg. That means it was taller than a giraffe and heavier than an elephant!

Easter is the second biggest candy consuming holiday. Which holiday is the first?

1. Christmas
2. Valentine's Day
3. Father's Day
4. Halloween

 Halloween  

 Halloween  

Celebrated on: 31st October

Common words: Dressing up, Candy, Trick or Treat, Spooky, Skeleton, Witch, Jack-O'-Lantern

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Who brought Halloween to The United States?

1. German immigrants
2. Irish immigrants
3. Canadian immigrants
4. British immigrants

Originally, Jack-O'-Lanterns were made out of?

1. Melons
2. Apples
3. Pumpkins
4. Turnips

Saint Patrick's Day!

Saint Patrick's Day!

Common Words: Shamrock, Ireland, Pot of gold, Clover, Green, Raomnpw. 

Where was St. Patrick born?

1. Ireland
2. Wales
3. England
4. North Ireland

How did St Patrick drive all the snakes out of Ireland?

Valentine's Day

Valentine's Day

Celebrated on: February 14th
Common Words: Love letters, Red, Cupid, Gifts, Flowers, Heart

Card ideas

- Not in my bubble, but in my heart
- There's no one else I'd rather be stuck at home with
- To me, you are essential

Write your own Covid themed Holiday card!

Easter

Christmas

Birthday

New Years Day

New Year's Eve

Wedding anniversary

Pasen

Kerstmis

Verjaardag

Nieuwjaarsavond

Nieuwjaarsdag

Trouwdag

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