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Christmas in Finland In Finland, Christmas is very important because Santa Claus lives there. On 13th December: The Finnish start buying the food, the cakes… and before Christmas they make ginger biscuits call “Piparkakku or Piparit”. These biscuits are very popular in Finland and they eat them on Christmas day. They decorate the houses with traditional Christmas things and they write Christmas cards. On the morning of 24th December: That time of the day the Finnish family get up early and they go to buy the Christmas tree. After buying the Christmas tree, they decorate the Christmas tree with little balls of flags of different countries, with symbols of friendship and many other things. On the night of 24th December: They receive the presents and they have a huge dinner with many types of food but especially they have fish. After having that huge dinner, they have the dessert with different delicious cakes and biscuits. They usually dress up the children with gnomo costumes. In that night the Finnish family usually goes to the sauna. On 25th December: They meet their family and they stay all day with their family. On 26th December: They meet their friends and they aren’t at home that day. On 6th January: Christmas finishes in Finland. That day they collect Christmas things.


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