Hanukkah
Hanukkah is celebrated for this many nights.
What is 8?
What is 7 nights?
Las Posadas begin on this date.
What is December 16th?
Christmas is celebrated on this date.
What is December 25th?
This holiday in November is the biggest and most important celebration in India.
What is Diwali?
A traditional Hanukkah food that is often served with applesauce.
The traditional Kwanzaa candleholder.
What is the Kinara?
During Las Posadas, friends and family gather to reinact this story.
What is the story of Mary and Joseph seeking shelter in Bethlehem.
All of Santa's reindeer.
Who are Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen, and Rudolph?
This holiday occurs on December 21st, the shortest day of the year.
What is Winter Solstice?
A game played during Hanukkah celebrations.
What is a dreidel?
This is the principle celebrated on the first night of Kwanzaa.
What is Umoja or Unity?
Who are the Posaderos and the Peregrinos?
The tradition of gift giving on Christmas started in this continent.
What is Europe?
During a Diwali celebration, people often make these colorful designs in the floor outside their doors.
What are rangoli?
Hanukkah symbolizes the Rededication of the Temple in this city in Israel.
Where is Jerusalem?
Children are given these kinds of gifts during Kwanzaa celebrations.
What are educational gifts and symbols of African American heritage?
Las Posadas celebrations end when this comes out.
What is a star-shaped pinata?
Three other names for Santa Clause.
What are St. Nick, Father Christmas, and Kris Kringle?
This holiday in February is celebrated in China and in Chinese communities around the world.
What is Chinese New Year or Lunar New Year?
The center candle on the menorah.
What is the shammash?
The name of the feast on the 6th night of Kwanzaa.
What is Karamu?
These are two traditional foods enjoyed at Las Posadas celebrations.
What are tamales, bunuelos, pan dulce, pozole, etc.
In the book Christmas Day in the Morning by Pearl S. Buck, the main character gives his father this for a Christmas gift.
What is milking the cows by himself before his father gets up.
All of the winter holidays we have learned about have this in common.
They are all celebrations of light.