The document presents information about Christmas traditions in several countries around the world, including England, the United States, France, Mexico, Germany, and Spain. In England, Christmas cards and the poem "Twas the Night Before Christmas" originated. French children receive gifts from Père Noël. Mexicans celebrate Posadas and say "Feliz Navidad." Germans celebrate St. Nicholas Day on December 6th. In Spain, Christmas season lasts until Kings' Day on January 6th and children put out shoes to be filled with gifts by the Three Wise Men.

1. Presenting Christmas Around the World Second Grade Classes at Doyle Elementary

2. Christmas in England

4. figgy pudding or plum pudding is eaten Canterbury cathedral Father Christmas in London

5. Christmas information & images from the United States & Louisiana

7. We get our image of how Santa Claus looks from the English poet Clement C. Moore who wrote The Night Before Christmas, and from the American artist Thomas Nast who illustrated him for Harper’s Weekly newspaper in the mid 1800s. Thomas Nast

8. Christmas parades to see Christmas cards to send wreaths hang on doors

9. Cajun Christmas gumbo

10. LA Christmas tree recycling: a fence is made out of lumber & old trees to help rebuild our Louisiana coastline

11. Christmas in FRANCE

13. Joyeux Noel French children receive gifts from Pere Noel who travels with his stern disciplinarian companion Pre Fouettard. Pre Fouettard reminds Pere Noel of just how each child has behaved during the past year. French yule log cake & oysters are eaten at the Christmas Eve feast.

16. Feliz Navidad

19. Christmas In Germany German Christmas pyramid & Christmas bread, “stollen”

20. Christmas in Spain

21. Men dressed as the Three Kings shoot confetti on to a crowd during a Three Kings parade in Pamplona, Spain, Monday Jan. 5, 2004. In Spain, the Three Kings traditionally give out Christmas presents on the night of Jan. 5. City hall of Salmanca, Spain