Actually, We Dutch kids celebrate Christmas on December 6th. It's not even called Christmas. We call it St. Nicholas Day. We put out our shoes the night before, and while we are asleep, Sinterklaas comes riding over over the rooftops on his white horse with Black Pete. Hope that helps!
Christmas traditions in Holland are different than in the US. St. Nicholas Day is celebrated on December 6th. Families celebrate St. Nicholas Eve at home and, after eating lots of good food, share gifts marked from Sinterklass. When the children go to bed, they set out their shoes by the fireplace. The shoes are filled with hay and carrots for Sinterklass' horse. The children then tell their parents if they have been well-behaved during the past year. In the morning, the shoes of well-behaved children are filled with nuts, candy, and other surprises.
This is an individual family thing. Some children in Australia do hang stockings for Christmas; many do not.
Children typically hang stockings over the fireplace before Christmas night in the hopes that Santa Claus will fill them with gifts and treats.
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You hang Christmas stockings, with care.
Dutch children hang up their stockings by the fireplace for Sinterklaas to fill with treats and gifts on the eve of St. Nicholas Day (December 5th). This tradition is similar to hanging stockings for Santa Claus in other parts of the world.
People hang stockings so they can be filled with small treats on Christmas eve.
So old St. Nick can put presents in it for the children.
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You hang stockings, with care.
it's a tradition
Dutch children would hang their shoes by the fireside before stockings. They believed that Sinterklaas (their version of Santa Claus) would fill them with gifts and treats on the eve of St. Nicholas Day.
Stockings are hung on the hearth at Christmas.