Traditions in Sweden

Christmas Eve, is one of our biggest traditions in Sweden. We´re dancing around the Christmas tree and open Christmas presents. We´re also eating a lot of food for example meatballs, sausage, marinates salmon and of course pickled herring!

Easter, is also a quite big tradition. At Easter the Easter bunny hide eggs filled with candy, which we must look for and when we have found it you get to it the candy. We´re also painting eggs in many different colors and patterns. We´re drinking “Påskmust” it tastes like Coca-Cola but a little bit sweeter.

New Year, on New Year’s Eve you eat good food and stay up all night and fire crackers. You´re also wishing your family and all your friends luck for the coming year. Many people are creating promises that you will be meet the next year.

Midsummer is the day on the year when the sun stays up for the whole day.
On midsummer we make a maypole of leaves and flowers and we sing and dance around it with flower crown on our heads.

We celebrate Halloween by dressing up and go knocking doors and when they open it we say “trick or treat” and if we don’t get candy we do some tricks.

All saint’s day is according to legends, the day when the wall between the dead and the alive is the smallest. It is a tradition in Sweden to go and light candles on graves and remind ourselves of the dead.

//Carina and Julia