In this project you will find information on Christmas and New Year in Spain. You will see how they celebrate these holidays. You will also find out if they celebrate these holidays the same or different than Canadians. Everyone writes his or her name on a slip of paper and places it in the urn.
Someone draws the names out, two at a time.
Each pair will be friend's for the coming year. Spaniard's fear Santa, they think he is taking over, they also think that when you're bad Santa dresses in black and takes you away in a sack. On Christmas day the Spaniard children fill a tree trunk with candy then they get a large, thick stick and they hit the trunk with the stick and try to knock the candy out. The twelfth night after Christmas the three wise men visit at midnight, so the children leave barley in their shoes for the wise men's camels. One of the most unusual Christmas celebrations centers around Olentzero.