1. Holidays

2. ?

4. Traditions
Christmas Day is celebrated on the 25th of December. Christmas is a family holiday. People stay at home and spend the time with their families. They buy Christmas presents for their friends and relations. They send Christmas cards and wish each other “Merry Christmas” and a Happy New Year.

5. Decorations
Every family tries to have a Christmas tree, which is decorated with colored lights. They also hang little toys, sweets on the tree and put presents under the tree.
Traditional colors of Christmas are green and red as they are colors of a holly- an evergreen plant with sharp leaves and red berries. People use a holly to decorate their homes during dark cold winters.

6. Christmas
Dinner
Usually the whole family has a big dinner in the afternoon. They eat chicken, duck, turkey, goose and pudding, pies for sweet.

7. ?

8. Guy Fawkes Day People set off fireworks and watch a firework display
5th of November

9. They burn a figure of Guy Fawkes Remember, remember,
The5th of November.

10. Shamrock is a national
symbol of Ireland ?

11. St. Patrick’s Day

12. Everything is
green on this
day.
People wear
green clothes,
hold and
watch street
parades.
17th March

13. They eat green
food and drink
green drinks

14. ?

15. ? Easter Sunday in April or May People color
eggs the week before Easter and give them to friends as a symbol of renewed life.
Children like to get the Easter
Bunny and the basket of sweets ?

16. ?

17. pie, corn and beans. They thank God for all good things in their life.
Thanksgiving
Day
People have family
dinner. They eat
turkey, pumpkin
pie, corn and beans. They thank God for all good things in their life.
4th Thursday
in November

18. Thanksgiving Symbols Pilgrim Hat Horn of plenty Pumpkin Turkey
Cranberry
Corn

19. Valentine’s
Day ?

20. Symbols
Almost all valentines ask “Be my Valentine”. The greeting cards have pictures of hearts. Valentines often show a cupid with an arrow. Red roses are the symbols of love

21. Decorations
All the decorations are bright red, and the most popular ones are heart shaped.
Red is the color most often used in valentines because it is a symbol of warmth and feelings. White color is another traditional color of St. Valentine’s.

22. Gifts
The day is a time to send little gifts to people you love. Flowers, jewelry and candy are favorite presents which sweethearts send each other. Valentine candy is packed in red heart-shaped boxes.

23. ?

25. Jack-o-lantern
Trick or treat
symbols
treats, games

26. Symbols

27. Symbols
Halloween is celebrated on 31 October and it’s connected with evil spirits. Witches flying on broomsticks with black cats, goblins, ghosts, vampires, pirates and skeletons are all symbols of Halloween. Black is one of the traditional Halloween colors, because Halloween festivals and traditions take place at night. In the weeks before October 31, Americans decorate windows of houses with silhouettes of witches and black cats.

28. Jack-o-lantern
Pumpkins are also a symbol of Halloween and the orange is the other traditional Halloween color. A favorite Halloween tradition is to make a jack-o lantern out of the pumpkin. The children carve a pumpkin, they cut the eyes, nose and mouth. They light a candle inside the pumpkin to scare their friends and set jack-o- lantern in the window.

29. Trick or Treat
Children put on masks and costumes, take baskets and go from house to house. They knock on the door or ring the bell and say “Trick or treat’. It means ‘Give us a treat or we’ll play a trick on you’. People give the children sweets, cookies and apples.

30. Games and Treats At Halloween parties
children play traditional games. The most popular games are Bobbing for apples, Musical chairs, Pin the tail on the donkey, Drop the heart, Who stole my heart? Traditional treats are dried pumpkin seeds, popcorn balls, toffee apples and pumpkin pie.