German Christmas

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  • November 19, 2008 at 1:04 am
    christina
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    We are looking at selecting a country this Christmas season, and adopting some/alot of their traditions, etc. We are choosing Germany, since we are already half and half with the traditions since DH is german…I was wondering though, as far as schooling goes, does anyone have any ideas, or have you done this before? I was thinking we would read Christmas Carol, continue our Beethovan study, (since he was German) put up a poster with pictures of the country, flag, etc.

    Does anyone know of another good history/literature selction that might add to that?

    Thank you!!

    Christina

    November 19, 2008 at 5:03 pm
    Bookworm
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    Hi, Christina! We’ve had lots of fun doing similar things to this. Our first year was Germany/Austria, too. We got several books on Christmas-Around-The-World type things at the library. I can’t remember specific titles, though. We also have a set of books on Christmas in different countries that my dh had growing up that we used. We made pfefferneuse and stollen and had lots of fun. These websites were helpful:

    http://german.about.com/od/christmas/Christmas_Weihnachten.htm

    http://www.germanculture.com.ua/library/links/christmas.htm

    http://german.about.com/library/bladventkalend03.htm (this one is cool–has a fact or tradition to do each day of December)

    http://www.californiamall.com/holidaytraditions/traditions-germany.htm

    As for living books, I can’t remember very much that we found. One of the wonderful Betsy-Tacy books by Maud Hart Lovelace describes Betsy going to Milwaukee to celebrate Christmas with Tib’s German family and it is adorable, but there’s no way my boys would sit still to read about Besty. 🙂 If you are interested I’ll go peek and find out which volume it is.

    Have fun, this is a fun way to celebrate Christmas AND learn more about your family heritage!

    Michelle D

    November 20, 2008 at 1:51 am
    Sonya Shafer
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    The Christmas song “O Come, Little Children” was written by a German man, Christoph von Schmid.

    You might also check on Martin Luther. One legend says that he started the Christmas tree tradition.

    And wasn’t “O Tannenbaum” (O Christmas Tree) originally in German?

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