Swedish Celebrations & Traditions - Book tips & More
When you live abroad and have children, it can feel important to hold on to some of our Swedish traditions and pass on our culture to the next generation. It's also a great way to help your kids understand their roots and feel more motivated to learn the language.
Which Swedish celebrations are important to you? For example, Lucia, Midsummer, Christmas and Easter are some of the big ones. But, equally important are the little things like making chokladbollar or kanelbullar together and introducing your kids to Swedish fika.
How to take part in Swedish celebrations abroad
In some bigger cities like London, there’s an organised Swedish Lucia procession, or you could have your kids join one in one of the many Swedish schools that run classes and events in the weekends. Many parents groups also celebrate Midsummer abroad (look for svenska föräldrar i... on Facebook to find your nearest group).
And if you're based in the UK you can also get hold of Swedish foods like Christmas ham and julmust through companies like Scandi Kitchen, Ocado and Totally Swedish. In the USA - IKEA is a good bet for finding Swedish foods.
Whether you make the celebrations big or small is up to you - but who doesn’t want their kids to grow up loving kanelbullar and små grodorna? :)
Here are some book tips for helping your kids take onboard some of our favourite Swedish celebrations:
Click here to check out my books ''Räkna med Sverige - Counting Sweden'' and 'Min första bok om Sverige - My first book about Sweden'. Both books aim to introduce kids who learn Swedish abroad to some of our favourite celebrations and traditions like Lucia, meatballs, cinnamon rolls, Vikings and more.
Click here to find out more about my Swedish Easter Book: Påskfesten - The Easter Party.
Click here to find a fellow Swedish author's book about Halloween: Vi firar Halloween (affiliate link)
Until next time - Ha det gott!
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Linda
