Sunshine Santa's blog

Hi everyone!

Australian Christmas has in the past been based on the Northern Hemisphere traditions, in the food that we eat on the day (A hot meal at a festive lunch with an extended family, eating turkey with roast vegetables, plum pudding, wearing silly paper hats and telling silly jokes pulled from traditional Christmas crackers)

The season is summer, often the highest temperatures are recorded December and January rising into the 40's (Celsius).

Decorations can be bought in shops, twinkling tinsel, baubles and angels, stars and Christmas figurines. Paper and paste ornaments made by the children at school are also popular.

These decorations are again recycled year after year and often children have favourites remembered each Christmas when the family gathers around to decorate the tree.

Christmas Eve is an exciting time for families. The Christmas Tree will have been placed and decorated in the family home often a week or more before. Children usually help decorate the tree.