How Do Americans Celebrate Christmas? 5 Traditions you MUST know 🎄🎅🏼🎁

How Do Americans Celebrate Christmas? 5 Traditions you MUST know

Christmas is the largest and most important holiday in the United States, and Americans have MANY ways of celebrating all throughout the month of December.

In this video, I will teach you 5 of the most common ways that Americans celebrate Christmas and explain all of our traditions to you with lots of photos and examples.

The 5 traditions I will share include:

1. Advent Calendars
2. Christmas Decorations
3. Food
4. Movies + Music
5. Gift Giving (Secret Santa + White Elephant)

In the end, I will also show you some of my family's Christmas home videos, so you can see what a real American Christmas looks like!

Christmas Song Playlist:

The Office Secret Santa Scene:

20 Best Christmas Movies:

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[akasharaye]

Polish Christmas tradition... 24 we celebrate Christmas Eve, traditionally there is 12 dishes, a lot of fish, fish soup, borscht with dumplings, cabbage with peas, dried fruit compote, mocka - gingerbread pudding and poppy seed cake - poppy seed dessert. Parents and grandparents try to distract children by giving gifts under the Christmas tree. On Christmas Eve we wait for the first star, when we make wishes, we break the wafer -
very thin white bread flake, unleavened (i.e. unleavened and unsalted), baked from white flour and water without the addition of yeast,
, and after the supper we go to Midnight Mass, a solemn mass celebrated at night (usually at midnight or in the evening) from December 24 to 25
I ❤ Christmas...

[ИльяКирбаба]

Hi, I am from Russia.Here in Russia our main winter holiday is New Year instead of Christmas.Russia has it own peculiarities of celebrating the New Year.People express their emotions vividly, launch fireworks and eat and drink a lot.The traditional Russian dishes are Olivier Russian salad, herring under the furcoat, crab salad in very large amount 😂.Our people watch the same new Year's films called "the Irony of fate, " "The gentleman of fortune" and "The adventures of Shurik."We also celebrate Christmas on the 7th of January, but it is not a national holiday it's religious .

[ЛейлаТлемисова]

The main holiday of Russia is the New Year. We start celebrating it on the thirty first of December and continue on the first of January. Throughout December we clean our whole house, do so-called “general cleaning”, decorate the house, set the New Year tree and eat a lot of tangerines. The school children decorate the school and make the New Year's concert. On New Year's Eve we prepare a feast including different salads, chicken, pies, candies, cookies, pickles and sandwiches with caviar. Closer to midnight our whole family sits at the table, watches the New Year TV programmes, eats, drinks and laughs. Many people prepare presents for their family and friends. And children believe that Father Frost (Russian Santa) puts presents for them under the New Year tree.

[roberthuber]

*You are sooo cute as an Baby 🥰 and now as adult aswell 😍👍🏼🎄🎅🏼✝️❤️🙏🏼🌟 God bless you & thanks for that video! 👌🏼🥹🎄🎅🏼👏🏼*

[silviomaia]

Merry x-mas .May God be with your family .

[WIRUNTHONGCHUMNUM]

It’s good to know the traditions!

From a guy at the airport😊

[swaingles]

Here in Argentina, celebration starts on December 24th in the morning by preparing the meat (for asado) to cook on grill embers, the salads, sweets and panettone. In the evening, close relatives invited start to arrive and drinking is the word: mostly beer and vermouth, Fernet and wine occasionally. We eat at 9pm, we chat, catch up, etc until 11.40pm. We watch Cronica (a chanel on TV) to wait for the 00hs to have a toast, hugs and kisses wishing Merry Christmas to each other. By the way, it's a scorching summer in here, so people who have a house usually spend the evening outdoors.

[awesomeworldchanel]

Cheers from East Africa. Discovered your channel today and your the best🥰😍

[pao]

The advent calendar is such a good idea! I didn't know that tradition. when I was little my gifts were dolls, toys, etc. I'm 22 now and my christmas gift is always money hahahaha; My favorite thing about Christmas is the food! A tradition that my family does is with the grapes, everyone takes a grape and if you had 4 seeds then you'll have a great year, if you had 3 or less it means that you won't have a good year

[advocatesmitataru]

I love celebrating christmas n decorating Christmas Tree__Love from India❤

[swaingles]

Do Americans celebrate Christmas Eve by all cousins, aunts, uncles, grannies and some friend gathering together for a family dinner on December 24th evening and then a toast at 00 time of the 25th? Or instead, do they all go to sleep on the 24th and celebrate Christmas lunch?

[ogaminiratnayake]

Oh that's so sweet of you dear teacher... Let's hope that you could make a holiday visit to my beautiful country next time.. 👏🙏
Tnx for the kind reply and also remembering and thinking of me and my country all the time🙏❤️❤️ and you are in my heart all the time too, my dear teacher..
Do enjoy the rising sun's weekend vibes... 🇯🇵🙏👏❤️❤️
Hugs.xoxoxo
Gams 💗

[bhoginisangyasinghbasnet]

Wow, nice one. Learned a lot about the Christmas. Thank you dear Amy.

[ogaminiratnayake]

Oh wow that's cool dear...
I am sure it will be awesome and cant wait for it... 👏👏
Today is your event right dear.. So, do enjoy and have loads of fun and take back wonderful memories with you and hopefully there will be a video out pretty soon on this memorable tour on your utube channel .. 👏🌹🙏🙏❤️
God bless you my teacher...
Take care and stay safe and blessed!!
Hugs.xoxoxo
Gams 😘

[ogaminiratnayake]

Oh that's really awesome to hear my dear teacher... Since you are very close to my country which literally made me feel as if you are virtually here and feel your presence around me too... Strange, isnt it!! eventhough you are not physically here... 🤔❣️🙏👏
Yes, do upload some pictures dear and I know they would be awesome my teacher as well as if you could, just do a lesson on this wonderful tour of foreign visit of yours to the rising sun on utube as well...
Hugs and love to you as always my beautiful teacher.. ❤️😍🤗
Gams😘

[ogaminiratnayake]

Oh that's great teacher....
Oh you are so close to where I am right now.. 😮🤩🙏
Just a matter of hop, step and jump and you are here in my country in next to no time, my dear... 🤩
Glad to hear that you are feeling ok and have yourselves a safe travel and take care...
Also tnx so much for writing to us despite your being busy and gallivanting the world right now... 🤩🌍
Hope my good teacher could make it here next time..
Take care, God bless and enjoy the good vibes of Samurai 🙏😇❤️
Hugs.xoxoxo
Gams 😘😘😘

[pragatidharmale]

This was so good . Thank you Amy for sharing this

[omidzakeri]

Hi Amy Joy. Your childhood was so adorable. Hope you have a whale of a time in your Christmas holiday. 🖤🖤🖤🖤

[ravinyoliveira]

Hello Amy 🙋🏻‍♀️

Greetings from Brazil 🇧🇷. Unfortunatelly YouTube only showed your channel for me in April 🙃. I wish I had watched this video in December 😅

In Brazil we can see Christmas trees for sale since the begging of November. And we also decorate them in November. They are all artificial trees we keep for years. Our family Christmas tree is 24 years old, not kidding. Here it is in the Summer, not winter.

We eat a kind of Cake/Bread named Panetone and the Chocolate version named Chocotone. We also eat nuts, fruits, Milk Pudding (Pudim de leite), rice with raisins, Rabanada, Manjar, Pavê (a dessert with cookies inside), farofa, salad mixed with maionese or Brazilian cream cheese (Requeijão). Last year my family and I created a garlic cream to put in the salad. This salad usually has potatos and carrots cut in cube shape. And usually people eat a big chicken named Chester. I dont because I am Vegetarian.

We can only eat at midnight, when we have a big dinner. When December 24 turns to December 25. Before the hour we eat snacks like Salgadinhos and Pastel de queijo.

Children can only open their presents when it is midnight, never before. We have dinner and after we open the gifts.

It is a very special time for me because this is also the month of my birthday 🥳🎂🎈. My mother tells me I asked for a Christmas birthday party for my second birthday. And I got it. We still have the pictures. And when you are born in December, Christmas also makes part of your personal history. It is connected to you.

The American holiday I like the most is Thanksgiving. I find it something very beautiful you have a day to thank God. Christmas is amazing. But it is international. It is taking place in many countries.

I hope you had a great Easter and I hope you have a Merry Christmas this year.

This Advent calendar is very cool, we dont have it here. And Christmas socks, it is something very American we see in movies. The movie Home Alone is always on TV in December. But the name of the movie here is "They forgot me".

The sweater tradition you have, it would not work well not here. It is too hot we would faint.

[Jsmacky]

I didn't know it was actually parents who put the presents under the Christmas tree 😭