Finnish celebrations

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Finnish celebrations
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• Finlands national day
• We spend our national day on the 6th of December

Christmas - In Finland Christmas eve (24th) is
more important than Christmas day. -Santa Claus
visits and gives some gifts if we have been
kind. We decorate a spruce tree with candles and
a star. Traditional Christmas foods are ham,
casseroles and meatballs.
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• New year
• We usually start the new year with rockets,
  eating some sausages and potatos salad

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Easter -Its national holiday in Finland. We eat
mämmi.
Vappu -Vappu is the workers party. An important
part of Vappu is balloons, champange and
undergraduatecap.

• Midsummer
• Its the nightless night. A lot of Finnish people
  go to their summer cottages. At 12 oclock at
  night we start burning a bonfire.