Christmas Decorations
Christmas Traditions
Christmas Eve & Christmas Day
Other December Holidays
New Year's Traditions
100

This type of tree is often decorated with lights, garlands, and ornaments, with a star or angel on top.

Christmas Tree

100

On Christmas Eve, children traditionally leave these items for Santa Claus.

What are milk and cookies?

100

On the night of December 24th, some families attend this type of gathering, while most share a large meal.

church service

100

Jewish Americans celebrate this eight-day holiday by lighting candles on a menorah, playing dreidel, and eating latkes.

Hanukkah

100

At midnight on December 31st, this famous event in New York City marks the beginning of the new year.

What is the ball drop in Times Square?

200

These festive adornments often feature lights, wreaths, and evergreen branches and are put up right after Thanksgiving.

What are Christmas decorations?

200

These groups go door-to-door during the holiday season, spreading cheer through song.

  • Christmas carolers

200

This date marks Christmas Eve in America.

December 24th

200

This holiday, celebrated by some African Americans, focuses on African culture and traditions.

Kwanzaa

200

This is the last day of the year in the calendar.

December 31st

300

This circular decoration made of evergreen branches is often hung on doors during the Christmas season.

What is a wreath?

300

Many people enjoy this classic holiday film featuring a reindeer with a glowing red nose.

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

300

On Christmas morning, Americans typically do this with their immediate family before having a late-afternoon feast.

exchange gifts

300

The menorah, a key symbol of this holiday, has this many branches. How many branches?

Nine

300

This holiday marks the official end of the Christmas season in America.

New Year’s Day

400

These bright, colorful items are hung outside homes and along streets to light up the holiday season.

What are Christmas lights?

400

This sweet treat, often shaped like a shepherd's staff, is a popular Christmas candy.

candy cane

400

Families often come together to enjoy this large meal on Christmas Day.

Christmas Dinner

400

During Hanukkah, children play with this spinning top as part of the celebration.

Dreidel

400

Many Americans make these promises or goals for self-improvement at the start of the new year.

New Year’s resolutions

500

These small, shiny or handcrafted items are used to decorate the Christmas tree.

What are ornaments?

500

This tradition involves making festive treats, often enjoyed throughout the Christmas season.

baking Christmas cookies

500

This type of special morning service is attended by many Americans on Christmas Day.

Church

500

This traditional Hanukkah food is made of fried potatoes.

Latkes

500

This is the number of seconds traditionally counted down to ring in the new year.

Ten