Name the Holiday
When is the Holiday
Images/ Decorations
Holiday Origination
Holiday Rituals
100
A celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ.
What is Christmas?
100
This holiday begins on the 25th day of the Hebrew month of Kislev and lasts eight days.
What is Hanukkah/Chanukah?
100

Traditional decorations for this holiday include images of dragons, vibrant colors, lanterns, and lights.

What is Chinese New Year?

100
Hmong people originally came from this region.
What is Southeast Asia? (More specifically Hmong people came from Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, and China.)
100
Children leave their shoes out on Saint Nicholas Eve in hopes that Saint Nicholas will place these inside.
What are coins or candies?
200
This holiday commemorates the rededication of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem. It is also known as the Festival of Lights and the Feast of Dedication.
What is Hanukkah/Chanukah?
200
This celebration takes place on December 6 in the United States.
What is the Feast of Saint Nicholas or Saint Nicholas' Day?
200
Buddha was sitting under this when he became enlightened.
What is a Bodhi Tree?
200
This is the group that first celebrated the Winter Solstice.
Who are the Pagans?
200
This natural occurrence indicates the beginning of Ramadan.
What is the sighting of the moon?
300
This is a week-long celebreation of Black identity, unity, and the preservation of African culture.
What is Kwanzaa?
300

This religious event takes place during the ninth month of the lunar calendar.

What is Ramadan?

300
This traditional Christian decoration found in family homes and churches symbolizes the passage of the four weeks leading up to Christmas.
What is an advent wreath? (It is usually a horizontal evergreen wreath with four candles. Beginning with the First Sunday of Advent, one candle is lit. An additional candle is lit during each subsequent week until by the last Sunday before Christmas, all four candles are lit. Some contain a 5th candle in the center to be lit on Christmas Eve.)
300
Kwanzaa is derived from a phrase spoken in this language from an African country.
What is Swahili?
300
Jewish families light this special candelabra during Hanukkah.
What is a Menorah?
400
During this three day celebration friends and family gather, wear traditional clothes, and give thanks to ancestors, spirits, and a new beginning.
What is the Hmong New Year?
400

This Buddhist holiday takes place each year on December 8.

What is Bodhi? or What is the day of enlightenment?

400
These are the colors of the seven candles that represent the seven principles of Kwanzaa. (They are the same colors depicted in flags of African liberation movements.)
What are red, black, and green?
400
This is the predominate religion that celebrates Diwali.
What is Hinduism? (Janism, Skihism, and Newar Buddists are other Southeast Asian religions that also celebrate Diwali or a similar festival of lights.)
400
It is custom to eat these Glutinous items on the 15th day of the Chinese New Year.
What are Yuanxiao/Tangyuan? (Rice balls filled with different fillings such as sesame, sugar, dried fruit, salnuts, red-bean paste or peanut butter paste.)
500
This is the shortest day and longest night of the year.
What is the Winter Solstice?
500

This five day festival takes place in Mid-October to Mid-November.

What is Diwali? or What is the Festival of Lights?

500
This dried fruit is used to break the fast during Ramadan.
What is a date?
500
The Chinese New Year associates this color with good luck and wealth in the coming year.
What is red?
500
This religious day is celebrated by meditating, studying the Dharma, chanting sutras, and performing kind acts toward others.
What is Bodhi? What is the day of enlightenment?
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