Christmas is a pretty cool time of the year. All of the fun, people, parties and presents. When I first started making zines, I wrote down a long list of zine themes I wanted to create and weird and quirky Christmas was top of the list. Also on that list was party themes, drinking games and what to do with the day itself. I mean some years, we’ve watched Christmas movies all day and ordered in for dinner. Fun for sure, love doing that, but I also love a good time so the zine became a combo – quirky Christmas traditions with adult Christmas games and themes. It works.
I was born in England and my husband is Dutch with a German half so we both brought some fun little traditions to the Christmas table. From me an orange or tangerine in the stockings on Christmas morning, Christmas crackers and paper hats for dinner and the yearly pantomime too (my fave). My husband always has pepernoten on hand, chocolate letters and marzipan sweets. They don’t go in shoes anymore though, just on the table.
There are many fun celebrations and traditions for midwinter and Christmas around the world like pooping logs in Spain, Christmas KFC in Japan and the Newfoundland Mummers. And Krampus of course – the best one of them all. I am not a huge horror fan but Krampus is just ridiculously cool. I’d love to witness a Krampuslauf one year in Austria.
Adult Christmas: Weird traditions & fun party games and recipes
