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Post by jlschlangen on Nov 17, 2011 8:46:49 GMT -6
What do you give your kids for St. NIcholas Day?
We want to start a tradition w/ our own kids. We do give our kids stuff. Dh is thinking about giving fruit to them. My sister gives her kids jammies for St. Nicholas Day. We want to give them something they will use...they have so much stuff & so much stuff that they don't use.
Thanks. I need some ideas.
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Post by jlschlangen on Nov 17, 2011 9:24:28 GMT -6
It is Dec. 6th the child leaves their shoe out overnight and St. Nicholas fills it up w/ things such as: clothes or toys or whatever.
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Post by apryllraye87 on Nov 17, 2011 9:44:49 GMT -6
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Post by jlschlangen on Nov 17, 2011 9:48:55 GMT -6
My dh's family use to have a big thing of nuts they would have on the table the day St. Nicholas would come at their house. We can't do that at our house b/c ds has a nut allergy. This year we want it to be something consumable that we all could eat.
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Post by cakemakermom on Nov 17, 2011 9:49:25 GMT -6
St Nicholas day is the day Santa comes to get their letters to Santa so he knows what he's missing on their list. From what I know it's a German tradition, but is big in most of the Christian world. We put their boots out on the 5th so they can find their goodies on the 6th. I give them small candies and small toys, matchbox cars, small lego sets, the little barbie dolls... Clementines would be a good fruit to put in their boots.
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Post by jlschlangen on Nov 17, 2011 9:51:07 GMT -6
Oh good idea Cake.
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Post by supermommy on Dec 5, 2011 16:18:55 GMT -6
Tonight is the eve of St. Nicholas Day :-) I am excited, I bought the boys little trucks to go on their train tracks and of course gold coins. I also picked up some chocolate Santas, you can never have enough chocolate!
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Post by aprilandy on Dec 5, 2011 16:56:25 GMT -6
Fruit, candy, gift cards (small for a movie or meal at Subway, and small toys are what fits in the shoes at our house (although now that I have a 13 year old with size 13 shoes I may need a few more pieces of fruit)
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Post by lilmermaid on Dec 5, 2011 17:58:03 GMT -6
I never heard of this until last year on MLM. DH and I both have German heritage and were both raised in pretty Christian families, neither one of us has ever heard or done this.
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Post by jrose on Dec 5, 2011 18:22:23 GMT -6
I've never heard of this either!
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Post by dara1012 on Dec 5, 2011 22:53:48 GMT -6
I never heard of this until last year on MLM. DH and I both have German heritage and were both raised in pretty Christian families, neither one of us has ever heard or done this. We had some friends who did this growing up. But I am 25%+ German and we never did this, DH is also German heritage and never did. Once DS is older I might incorporate it into traditions. Right now incorporating Santa and the birth of Jesus is enough to keep the questions coming!
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Post by jlschlangen on Dec 6, 2011 9:00:14 GMT -6
We ended up giving our kids gloves, Lay's Stax. This might be our new tradition of what we will give them every year.
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Post by cakemakermom on Dec 6, 2011 9:14:42 GMT -6
My kids got some chocolate money- coins and dollars, a box of mike and ikes each, christmas push pops and a couple small items. Dd got hair clips and squinkies and ds got a small ironman and a book.
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Post by bumblebee23 on Dec 6, 2011 11:09:32 GMT -6
HAHA Vic I thought the same thing!
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Post by ladyandrearose on Dec 6, 2011 19:05:05 GMT -6
St. Nick's was big where I grew up in Germantown, Wisconsin. It was stockings that we hung. We usually got chapstick (to this day I can't drink Dr. Pepper, because it reminds of chapstick!), candy and small toys. It was like a mini Christmas. I was surprised when I came to Minnesota and almost nobody knew about this.
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