New Year Traditions Around The World Pdf
You might even find that you ll want to incorporate some of these ideas in your 2016 new year.
New year traditions around the world pdf. Do you do anything special on new year s day. Some of these traditions are crazier than others but in a good way. Around the world new year s day and eve are filled with all kinds of superstitions.
Is new year s eve a fun time for you. New year s festivals around the world. Or maybe they just involve impressively huge fires in public spaces.
You and your students will enjoy learning about some crazy new year s superstitions. Shrine custom leftover hug strike relax stay up ring celebration shout. They re tied up in ancient religious rituals.
Italy has chiacchiere which are honey drenched balls of pasta dough fried and dusted with powdered sugar. Watching the ball drop in times square raising a toast and sealing the night with a smooch may be the most quintessentially american way to celebrate new year s eve but around the world. Almost everywhere in the world church bells ring horns toot whistles blow sirens shriek.
What do you like about the new year. There are a number of strange and interesting new year s traditions around the world. London s trafalgar square and new york city s times square swarm with crowds of happy noisy people.
For the past 25 years or so it has been a russian holiday tradition for two divers aptly named father frost and the ice maiden to venture into a frozen lake baikal the world s largest freshwater lake and take a new year tree typically a decorated spruce more than 100 feet below the surface. New year s eve food traditions from around the world cakes and other baked goods are commonly served from christmas to new year s around the world with a special emphasis placed on round or ring shaped items. Passage and questions that s right.