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Boxing day is a holiday celebrated on the day after christmas. Boxing day is on the 26th december, however the offical day off of work can change, if the 26th is a Sunday. For many families it is a day to relax and just spend time with each other. The 26th december is also Saint stephens day. Boxing day is known for having ridicoulios price offers, a bit like black Friday. Many stores open very early, most 5am but some even earlier. In the UK 2009 up to 12 milllion shoppers appeared at the sales. Boxing day used to be a day where people gave their servants a small gift, like food or money.

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Boxing day is a holiday celebrated on the day after christmas. Boxing day is on the 26th december, however the offical day off of work can change, if the 26th is a Sunday. For many families it is a day to relax and just spend time with each other. The 26th december is also Saint stephens day. Boxing day is known for having ridicoulios price offers, a bit like black Friday. Many stores open very early, most 5am but some even earlier. In the UK 2009 up to 12 milllion shoppers appeared at the sales. Boxing day used to be a day where people gave their servants a small gift, like food or money.

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The tradition of the Yule Log comes from the druids- they kept a fire burning all through the dark season. The original Christian Yule Log was a large piece of wood that was burned in the fireplace as part of the holiday celebrations. It would be decorated with ribbons and be carried into the house. Once it was lit, it had to be kept lit throughout all the 12 days of Christmas. If you could keep the log burning, it would bring warmth, prosperity, blessing and good luck all the next year. Today, this tradition is rarely still in use. You could almost say that it's burning out. (eeeyyyyyy)

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In Britain, many younger children write letters to Father Christmas, but they do not always send them. Instead they burn the letters in the fireplace - the ashes fly up the chimney and Father Christmas reads the smoke. Of course they also have treats ready for Father Christmas when he comes and in Britain it is the custom to leave a tasty snack for Father Christmas. This usually consists of mince pies with a glass of whisky, sherry or brandy – it is after all a long, cold flight.

In Britain, it is tradition to hang Christmas stockings at the end of the bed. That way you wake up on Christmas Day and immediately see all your presents.

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In most countries people go carolling, but in England they go wassailing. The two are essentially the same, but wassailing can be traced back to the middle Ages where groups of people, known as wassailers, would go from house to house singing. They would bring a wassail bowl filled with spiced ale to give people, and in exchange they would receive food and drink. The wassail bowl would be passed around and they would all exchange good wishes for the coming year.

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The twelve days of Christmas is the season where they celebrate that Jesus was born. It starts with the first day of Christmas, which is Christmas day, and lasts until the 5th January.
These days have been celebrated in all of Europe, since the Middle Ages, and every day celebrates a saint.
1st: Jesus is born (25th December)
2nd: St Stephens day (it's also Boxing day, 26th December)
3rd: St John the Apostle (27th December)
4th: people remember the baby boys which king Herodes killed, in an attempt to kill the Jesus child. (28th December)
5th: St Thomas Becket (29th December)
6th: St Egwin of Worcester (30th December)
7th: Pope Sylvester (New years Eve, 31st December)
8th: Mary, the mother of Jesus (1st January)
9th: St. Basil the Great and St.   Gregory Nazianzen (2nd January)
10th: Feast of the holy name of Jesus. (3rd January)
11th: St Elizabeth Ann Seton (4th January)
12th: St John Neumann (5th January)

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Night time on Christmas Eve is really exciting for young children. It is the time when Father Christmas comes. The children hang their stockings over the fireplace at night and go to sleep. Then the Father Christmas comes and gives them some toys in their stockings. Father Christmas has all his gifts in a sleigh and rides across the sky with 9 reindeer (dasher, dancer, prance, vixen, comet, cupid, donner  - or it may be Donder.-, blizten and of course Rudolf).

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Christmas Eve December 24 th

When it is Christmas Eve in the UK, families are decorating their homes. Carol singing, midnight church services and going out to the pub, are some of the activities that many families enjoy.

Actually, in England they go Wassailing – which is basically the same as carolling. The difference is, that the tradition of wassailing traces all the way back to the middle ages, when wassailers (which is a group of people) went out singing from house to house.
It's not Christmas eve in Britain without Mince pies, Christmas pudding, or Christmas cake. When they eat, there are Christmas crackers on the table, and in them, there are paper crowns, a small toy and a joke.

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So, from what we've told you about British christmas traditions, and our christmas traditions, we can see what some of the differences in our traditions are.
One of the biggest differences is, of course, that we celebrate christmas eve on the 24th, they, on the 25th.
We get to open our presents on the 24th, whilst they get them in the morning on the 25th.
Another difference is, that we dance around the Christmas tree, and in Britain, they go wassailing, or out to pubs.
The feast is also different; in Denmark, most of us have duck, even though som may eat turkey. In Britain, they eat mince pies - there isn't actually beef in them - and a lot of other treats. Our dessert is rice pudding, and theirs is mostly Christmas pudding or Christmas cake.
In Denmark, it is also a tradition to watch Christmas series all through December, and in Britain they'd rather watch Christmas films.

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We have some traditions here in Denmark, that are different from the ones in Britain. In my house, we start off with the tradition of going to church - we mostly go before noon. After church, my mom starts making dinner, and my sisters and I put the gifts under the Christmas tree.  We usually eat duck for Christmas dinner, with sweet potatoes, regular potatoes, gravy, red cabbage, white cabbage, potato crisps and of course, rice pudding with an almond in it.
After dinner, we go into the livivng room, where we dance around  the christmas tree, and sing christmas carols. After we've danced around the tree, we open our presents. We do that in a special way; the youngest person in the room starts. They select a present for another person. The person who gets a present is the next that have to select a present to someone. And so on, and so on.
After we've gotten our presents, we usually just sit together, talking and eating some chocolate and cookies.

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Christmas is a Christian holiday, celebrating the birth of Jesus.

We would therefore like to read a Christmas story to you - about when the Jesus child was born.

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We want to tell you a bit about how we celebrate Christmas ourselves; (we talk about how we celebrate Christmas)
So, by what we've told you about the Britain traditions, and our own traditions, we can tell that the differences are; ......