Spain
This is the color of Tió de Nadal’s hat.
What is red?
This is a hot chocolate drink made from corn in Mexico.
What is champurrado?
This is why people in Chile, Uruguay, and Argentina go to the beach on Christmas Day.
What is because it is summer there?
This is when the Christmas season officially begins in Nicaragua.
What is December 6th?
In Puerto Rico, this is when a group goes to a friend’s house in the middle of the night to wake them a sing carols and have a party.
What is un asalto navideño or parranda?
This is the day when the biggest lottery in Spain occurs.
What is December 22nd?
This is the traditional shape of the piñata.
What is a 7-pointed star?
This is what happens on el Día de las Velitas in Colombia?
What is everyone decorates their homes and cities with lights and candles. There are fireworks at night?
This is where Baby Jesus is placed in a Salvadorean home.
What is under the Christmas tree?
This is a dance performed at Christmas in Guinea Ecuatorial.
What is el Bonko?
Families from these two regions of Spain put Tio de Nadal in their homes.
What are Cataluña and Aragón?
This is when Las Posadas begins.
What is December 16th?
This is who brings gifts to the good children in Colombia on Christmas.
Who is Baby Jesus?
This is the name for Santa Claus in Costa Rica.
What is Colacho?
These are the ingredients of the drink coquito.
What are Sweetened condensed milk, coconut milk, and evaportated milk?
Olentzero is from these two regions of Spain.
What are País Vasco (Basque Country) and Navarra?
This is the last day of the Christmas season in Mexico.
What is February 2nd?
This is what Ecuatorian children put in an old shoe.
What is their Christmas list for Santa?
This is what Guatemalans do on December 7th and why.
What is They remove all old objects from their homes and make a big doll with them. Then they burn the doll because they want to remove the bad things in their lives?
This is the country where the piñata comes from.
This is the name for the biggest lottery in Spain that occurs in late December.
What is El Gordo (The Fat One)?
This is what people do in Mexico on December 25th.
What is they rest and eat leftovers?
This is why 3 different potatoes are placed under the bed in Colombia on January 1st.
What is it’s a prediction game: if you pick the peeled you will be poor, the unpeeled means you will be wealthy, and the half peeled means you will stay the same in the new year?
This is when Nochebuena takes place.
What is December 24th, Christmas Eve?
This is who gives gifts to the poorest children in the Dominican Republic and also when the gifts are given.
Who is La Vieja Belén gives them gifts after Three Kings’ Day.