Winter
This holiday celebrates the coming of a new year.
What is New Years?
This holiday is an annual custom on April 1st, consisting of practical jokes and hoaxes.
What is April Fool's Day?
This holiday celebrates and recognizes the American labor movement and the works and contributions of laborers to the development and achievements of the United States.
What is Labor Day?
This holiday is a day of giving thanks for the blessings of the past year.
What is Thanksgiving?
This Christian holiday is celebrated by going to church, giving gifts, and sharing the day with their families. It is associated with Santa Claus.
What is Christmas?
This holiday is a celebration held on March 17th originally to honor the most prominent patron saint of Ireland, St.Patrick. This holiday has evolved into a celebration of Irish culture with parades, special foods, music, dancing, and a whole lot of green.
What is St. Patrick's Day?
This holiday is spent remembering the U.S. Military personnel who have served and sacrificed protecting the United States.
What is Memorial Day?
This consists of activities including trick-or-treating, attending costume parties, carving pumpkins into jack-o'-lanterns, lighting bonfires, apple bobbing, playing pranks, visiting haunted attractions, telling scary stories, and watching horror movies.
What is Halloween?
This holiday celebrates the beginning of a new year on the traditional Chinese calendar.
What is Chinese New Year?
This holiday commemorates the anniversary of Mexico's victory over the French Empire at the Battle of Puebla in 1862. It is held on May 5th.
What is Cinco de Mayo?
This holiday commemorates the Declaration of Independence of the United States, on July 4, 1776.
What is Independence Day?
This holiday is traditionally celebrated on November 1 and 2. It involves family and friends gathering to pay respects and to remember friends and family members.
What is the Day of the dead (Dia de los muertos)?
This holiday is based on ancient African harvest festivals and celebrates ideals such as family, life, and unity. It means "First Fruits" and is celebrated from December 26 to January 1. During this holiday, millions of African Americans dress in special clothes, decorate their homes with fruits and vegetables, and light a candleholder called a kinara.
What is Kwanzaa?
This holiday marks the start of the Christian Lent season leading up to Easter. It is the day before Ash Wednesday, also called Shrove or Fat Tuesday. It is most famous in New Orleans, Louisianna.
What is Mardi Gras?
This holiday commemorates the end of slavery in the United States.
What is Juneteenth?
This holiday is a traditional festival celebrated in Asia. Families gather to sample autumn harvests, light lanterns and admire what's believed to be the fullest moon of the year.
What is the moon festival?
This Jewish holiday lasts for eight days. It is celebrated by lighting a special candleholder, called a menorah, to remember an ancient miracle in which one day's worth of oil burned for eight days during the rededication of their temple. Many Jews also eat special potato pancakes called latkes, sing songs, and spin a top called a dreidel to win chocolate coins, nuts, or raisins.
What is Hanukkah?
This major Jewish holiday that celebrates the exodus of the Israelites from slavery in Egypt, which occurs on the 15th day of the Hebrew month of Nisan
What is the Passover?
This holiday honors parents.
What is Mother's/ Father's Day?
This major Hindu holiday pays homage to the gods and marks the beginning of a new year. It is also called The Festival of Lights
What is Diwali?