Each year, on December 6, Nikolaustag is celebrated in Germany. It literally means St. Nicholas Day in English. On the night of the 5th children put a boot or shoe outside their door and, according to tradition, Nikolaus will come during the night and fill it for them. If the children have been good all year he will leave apples, oranges or special candy, and if children have been naughty they get birch twigs in their shoe. Colin doesn't quite understand all this Santa stuff yet but I thought it would be fun to do it anyway. We put Colin's boot by his door and told him Santa would visit him that night. When he woke up he found his boot stuffed with an orange, a chocolate Santa and a some gummi candy. He was excited and a little confused to find a shoe full of goodies outside his door.
We've also been doing an Advent calendar and counting down the days unitl Christmas. Again, I don't think he really understands the concept other than that every day he gets another piece of chocolate out of it, lol.
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