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Your Family
Traditions
Here are a few stories kids shared with us
about their favorite family traditions.
My favorite family tradition My sister and I have
happens on each of our a tradition. We grow
birthdays. We get to pick out our hair for Locks of
any kind of cereal we want! Love. We have done it
It’s our own special box, but two times. It usually
we always share some. takes us two years to
get 10 inches to donate
Adeleine
to make wigs for kids On Christmas Eve, I go to
Age 8 • Virginia
without hair. church with my family. At the
My favorite family tradition end of the service, members
Caroline and Louisa
is to eat small Chinese sweets Ages 9 and 7 • New York throw oranges from the center
known as moon cakes during aisle to all of the kids in the
the Mid-Autumn Festival, which My family tradition is when it congregation, including those
is celebrated on the night of the is your birthday, your breakfast is in the balcony. Oranges remind
full moon. Common fillings a waffle with ice cream on top me of Christmas traditions.
inside the moon cakes are and a candle on the ice cream.
Chloe
red-bean paste and egg yolk, Then we light the candle and Age 7 • California
which stands for the full moon. start singing to the person that
has the waffle. Every August, our family camps
Jenny
in the Blue Ridge Mountains in
Age 9 • New Jersey Kelly
Virginia. We cook meals over a
Age 7 • Georgia
campfire and sleep in a tent. One
Every Saturday, my family and I
Our family go out to eat lunch. I always get a morning, my uncles found bear
prints on their tent! It was sort of
tradition is every cheeseburger and fries. My sister scary thinking that a bear was that
Saturday night, always does, too! close to their tent!
Hunter
Taylor
my brothers Age 10 • Nebraska Age 9 • Ohio
and I cook with Something my family does On New Year’s Eve, we
whichever parent together is travel in Europe. My dad make Dutch doughnuts called
we want. works in Germany. On my brother’s oliebollen. We eat them with
icing sugar. We also play
birthday, we went to Pisa, Italy! We
Elizabeth usually travel on special occasions. video games.
Age 9 • Minnesota Ellen Jaden
Age 10 • Germany Age 10 • Ontario, Canada
Art by Barry Gott
