Christmas Tips
Hanukkah Tips
New Years Tips
Kwanzaa Tips

All around the world people celebrate various faith traditions. I'm here to tell you about them with these fun and original tips! These tips will take you into another world you may not know or haven't heard of. These tips will help you. I will begin with Christmas.

 

By: Alexandra Edwards

Christmas Tips

1.  Once you set up your fresh Christmas tree put water in it immediately.

2.  Get up after 7:00 AM because Santa Claus might not be done giving out gifts.

3.  Make sure to always wrap the gifts you give out to make it more exciting.

4. Make sure you are nice so that Santa Claus comes to your house!

5.  Make sure to leave out cookies and milk for Santa and carrots for the reindeer.

Lighting the candles! These are Hanukkah Tips. You may have heard of it... but you may not know a lot about it. Let's begin.

A Hanukkah candle will be lighted each night.

Hanukkah 

1.  Make sure to celebrate Hanukah for 8 days and 8 nights, on the 25th day of Kislev, according to the Hebrew calendar.

2. Always use a wide velvet ribbon to run through the middle of a long table.

3. Make sure to light one candle each night.

4.  Play the Dreidel game while you celebrate.

5.  Each night light the middle candle too.

 

We're not done yet, we have more to do. Our next one, many people may not know about. If you do know or have heard of it, you'll be surprised once you hear my tips. It is Kwanzaa!

Kwanzaa

1.Make sure to celebrate Kwanzaa from December 26th to January 1st.

2. Kwanzaa is an African-American cultural holiday.

3. Be sure to celebrate family, community, and culture.

4.Once a day light one candle.

5.Daily Celebrate:

Day 1 - Middle black candle - Umoja - Unity

Day 2 - Innermost red candle - Kujichagulia - Self-determination

Day 3 - Innermost green candle - Ujima - Collective Work and Responsibility

Day 4 - Middle red candle - Ujamaa - Cooperative Economics

Day 5 - Middle green candle - Nia - Purpose

Day 6 - Outermost red candle - Kuumba - Creativity

Day 7 - Outermost green candle - Imani – Faith

Finally, the holiday tips for New Year!

New Year Tips

  1. Make sure to mark your calendar to celebrate the New Year.
  2. Make new goals.
  3. Make your resolution and keep it.
  4. Make new friends.
  5. Spend more time with family.

Sources

http://www.history.com/minisites/kwanzaa

http://www.history.com/minisites/hanukkah

http://interiordec.about.com/od/cmastreetips/a/cmastreedecotip.htm