Celebrating Saint Nicholas Day
Celebrating Saint Nicholas Day
Saint Nicholas Day is celebrated around the world on the 6th of December. On the eve of this special holiday, Saint Nicholas comes to fill children's shoes with small toys and sweets.
Many children set out their shoes filled with carrots and hay for Saint Nicholas' horse (or donkey, some stories go) hoping for small gifts in exchange.
Children love the wonder of putting their shoes out for Saint Nicholas and seeing them filled in the morning!
Saint Nicholas is the patron saint of children and has a legendary habit of secret gift-giving. Chocolate coins are a traditional sweet to fill Saint Nicholas shoes, but we recommend a few special open-ended toys!
May your Saint Nicholas celebrations be full of wonder, play and joy!
xoxo,
Sarah
I work in a public school where many children have not heard of St.Nicholas Day. So every year I make about two hundred shoes from yellow construction paper. Then I read the “Saint Nicholas Story” after I hand out a shoe for the children to decorate with markers or stickers and then depending on the timing of the day they leave them outside their classroom and St. Nicholas comes and leaves them all a small candy in the shoe. I love seeing them all decorated outside a classroom. In fact when I was in shoe production just the other day an older student came into the library and asked what I was making and I said shoes and they said “Oh yeah. I remember that from kindergarten.” So I’m happy to keep the joy alive and glad to help the magic stay alive. Happy St.Nicholas Day.
Cheryl on
I remember celebrating St. Nickolas on Dec. 6, as a child. My siblings and I would use my Dad’s shoes because they were the biggest and so be filled with more candy. 😊
Theresa Chavez on