English Speaking Countries - holidays and special days
Across
- 2. It's a favourite custom to make this from a pumpkin which is scraped out and in which eyes, a nose and a mouth are cut and then a candle is lit inside.
- 3. Type of a pastry the British eat on Good Friday with a cross on the top
- 5. Children say this on Halloween when they go from door to door wearing their costumes and asking for sweets.
- 7. Thursday before Easter is named ..... Thursday
- 9. Popular Easter activity when children search for Easter eggs hidden in their garden or house
- 14. Children in the UK believe that .................. will come through the chimney and bring them presents.
- 16. People in the UK have young lamb, spring peas, new potatoes and eggs for diner on ..........
- 17. Before the English children go to bed on Christmas Eve, they hang up ......... at the end of their beds.
Down
- 1. Christmas dessert which is made with a lot of dried fruit, eggs, suet and very little flour.
- 4. Which country does the tradition of Halloween come from?
- 6. the oldest and the most important Christian Festival
- 8. The evening of 24th December is called ....
- 10. The creature which hides Easter Eggs for kids to find them
- 11. Christmas dinner is a great occasion. It consists of roast .......... with chestnut stuffing, roast potatoes and vegetables.
- 12. Halloween is celebrated on ........ 31st
- 13. If you catch a girl under it, you are allowed to kiss her.
- 15. December 26th is called this.