Christmas Around the World Day 8: Germany

Today is Germany! Some of our favorite family traditions worked well with Germany’s. We started with our annual Candy Cane Hunt since candy canes may have been invented in Germany. After the kids were fully awake, I announced that there was one other interesting tradition in Germany I wanted to share this year. I read to them about Krampus and how he supposedly punishes wicked children, and right after I finished describing the Krampus run, Eric ran in wearing a mask and started throwing a flurry of snowballs. . The kids loved it! They even took some turns with the mask The candy cane hunt and snowball fight are two of DZs favorites. And Maia said “Great tradition Germany!” As she pelted her parents with snowballs