{
 "source": "https://peabody.kids/flashcards/fun-holidays-around-world",
 "id": "fun-holidays-around-world",
 "title": "Holidays and Traditions Around the World",
 "category": "trivia-fun",
 "subject": "Culture",
 "levels": [
  "3-5",
  "6-8",
  "9-12"
 ],
 "description": "Festivals and celebrations from many countries and cultures, told respectfully.",
 "tags": [
  "holidays",
  "traditions",
  "cultures"
 ],
 "frontLabel": "Holiday",
 "backLabel": "What it is",
 "cards": [
  [
   "New Year's Day",
   "January 1; many countries celebrate the new calendar year"
  ],
  [
   "Lunar New Year",
   "A spring festival in many East Asian cultures, with family meals, red decorations and the zodiac animal year"
  ],
  [
   "Diwali",
   "The Hindu, Sikh and Jain festival of lights, in autumn"
  ],
  [
   "Holi",
   "The Hindu spring festival of colors in India"
  ],
  [
   "Hanukkah",
   "A Jewish eight-day festival of lights"
  ],
  [
   "Passover",
   "A Jewish spring holiday remembering the exodus from Egypt"
  ],
  [
   "Rosh Hashanah",
   "The Jewish New Year"
  ],
  [
   "Yom Kippur",
   "The Jewish Day of Atonement"
  ],
  [
   "Christmas",
   "December 25; Christians celebrate the birth of Jesus"
  ],
  [
   "Easter",
   "A Christian spring holiday celebrating the resurrection of Jesus"
  ],
  [
   "Ramadan",
   "The Muslim holy month of fasting from dawn to sunset"
  ],
  [
   "Eid al-Fitr",
   "The Muslim festival that ends Ramadan"
  ],
  [
   "Eid al-Adha",
   "The Muslim festival of sacrifice, linked to the pilgrimage to Mecca"
  ],
  [
   "Kwanzaa",
   "A week-long celebration of African American culture, December 26 to January 1"
  ],
  [
   "Day of the Dead (Dia de los Muertos)",
   "A Mexican celebration to remember loved ones, with marigolds and altars"
  ],
  [
   "Thanksgiving (US)",
   "Fourth Thursday of November; a day to give thanks and share a meal"
  ],
  [
   "Canadian Thanksgiving",
   "Second Monday of October"
  ],
  [
   "Independence Day (US)",
   "July 4; marks the Declaration of Independence in 1776"
  ],
  [
   "Bastille Day",
   "July 14; France's national day"
  ],
  [
   "Canada Day",
   "July 1"
  ],
  [
   "Halloween",
   "October 31; costumes, jack-o'-lanterns and trick-or-treating"
  ],
  [
   "Bonfire Night",
   "November 5 in the UK, with fireworks"
  ],
  [
   "Valentine's Day",
   "February 14; a day for sharing cards and kind words"
  ],
  [
   "St. Patrick's Day",
   "March 17; Irish culture and green clothes"
  ],
  [
   "April Fools' Day",
   "April 1; a day for harmless pranks"
  ],
  [
   "Mother's Day",
   "A day to honor mothers, held in different months in different countries"
  ],
  [
   "Father's Day",
   "A day to honor fathers"
  ],
  [
   "Earth Day",
   "April 22; a day to care for the planet"
  ],
  [
   "Cinco de Mayo",
   "May 5; remembers a Mexican victory in 1862 and celebrates Mexican culture"
  ],
  [
   "Mexican Independence Day",
   "September 16"
  ],
  [
   "Oktoberfest",
   "A beer and folk festival in Munich, Germany, held in late September and October"
  ],
  [
   "Carnival",
   "A pre-Lent festival with parades, famous in Rio de Janeiro"
  ],
  [
   "Mardi Gras",
   "The day before Lent begins; New Orleans has parades and beads"
  ],
  [
   "Songkran",
   "Thai New Year with water splashing"
  ],
  [
   "Obon",
   "A Japanese summer festival to honor ancestors"
  ],
  [
   "Tanabata",
   "A Japanese star festival on July 7"
  ],
  [
   "Cherry Blossom Festival",
   "Spring celebration of flowering cherry trees in Japan"
  ],
  [
   "Mid-Autumn Festival",
   "East Asian harvest festival with mooncakes and moon watching"
  ],
  [
   "Dragon Boat Festival",
   "Chinese festival with boat races and rice dumplings"
  ],
  [
   "Chuseok",
   "Korean harvest festival"
  ],
  [
   "Vesak",
   "Buddhist celebration of the Buddha's birth, enlightenment and passing"
  ],
  [
   "Nowruz",
   "Persian New Year at the spring equinox"
  ],
  [
   "Lantern Festival",
   "End of Lunar New Year celebrations with lanterns"
  ],
  [
   "Hogmanay",
   "Scottish New Year's Eve party"
  ],
  [
   "St. Lucia Day",
   "December 13 in Sweden, with candles and white gowns"
  ],
  [
   "Three Kings Day",
   "January 6; celebrated in Spain and Latin America"
  ],
  [
   "Guy Fawkes Night",
   "Another name for Bonfire Night in the UK"
  ],
  [
   "Juneteenth",
   "June 19; marks the end of slavery in the US in 1865"
  ],
  [
   "Martin Luther King Jr. Day",
   "Third Monday in January in the US"
  ],
  [
   "Veterans Day",
   "November 11 in the US; honors those who served in the military"
  ],
  [
   "Remembrance Day",
   "November 11 in Commonwealth countries"
  ],
  [
   "Groundhog Day",
   "February 2; a groundhog 'predicts' spring in the US and Canada"
  ],
  [
   "Labor Day",
   "First Monday in September in the US; honors workers"
  ],
  [
   "Pi Day",
   "March 14, a math fan holiday for the number 3.14"
  ],
  [
   "Boxing Day",
   "December 26 in the UK and Commonwealth countries"
  ],
  [
   "Bonfire of San Juan",
   "Midsummer bonfires in Spain on June 23"
  ],
  [
   "Midsummer",
   "A Scandinavian celebration of the longest days with flowers and dancing"
  ],
  [
   "Pancake Day",
   "The day before Lent; people eat pancakes in the UK"
  ],
  [
   "Pongal",
   "Indian harvest festival in January, especially in Tamil Nadu"
  ],
  [
   "Onam",
   "A harvest festival in Kerala, India"
  ]
 ]
}