The holiday season can be a joyful and magical time, especially through the eyes of children. With the help of Dublin City Schools, Dublin Life connected with second graders at Glacier Ridge and Chapman Elementary Schools and asked them to share what makes their holiday season special.
Each answer is written in the students’ own words, unedited. These quotes and drawings are sure to make your heart grow three sizes…unless you’re the Grinch.
Q: What is your favorite way to celebrate the holiday season?
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- I love eating cookies and milk after Santa comes. It is gorges! My mom sometimes makes it GORGES! - Anika
- My favorite crismas trdisons is sleeping in, hot chocolate, chirismas tree decoating and going to my grandpas and granmaws hous - Harlow
- New Years is my favorite holiday. On New Years eve we get to see family and friends and when my friends and my sisters friends come over on my frige we set a five secend timer and we cound down from five and the best port is saying happy New Year! - Samayra
- Chrismas diner with my cosins we eat turkey and my Grand parints make a surprise for the drsert. We do a contest evry chrismas and the contest is who will eat the most food and I wun the contest last year. - Jack
- cristmas. new yers eve. I like to sit by the fire and opning pezints and haning ot with family. - Madelyn
- pting the fire place up and people cuming over to are hais for cresmis and woching movese for crismis - Landon
- puting up the tree and ornaments and getting presens then we put our chars so sante hos to put are presesns. - Darcy
- haw I celebrate christmas is we poot cookes and melk on a tae and we also dekrate the christmas tree with ordmints. - Logan
- I love christmas I love getting the Christmas tree. I go someware and we get to pick it! I love to helping my mom decorate some time's I go on a walk with my family to go see the christmas lighs! - Nora
- We go to Tennessee in December and my cusins come and we stay all night. We go to the arckdade we take walk and play with legos and fight with them. - Santi
- For Chrismis we celrbrate by putting up my chrismas tree with ordmints. And we make cookis and milk for santa. For Janwary we do firework with our friends and family. - Aash
- My elf's hide from me and my sister and there name's are Elfie and Snowflake and they some time's make mess!!! - Kris
- When my grandparents show up we do puzzles. We do the United State puzzle we do puzzles, games, pictures It is so fun on the holldays I love it! - Sibyl
- Snogole with a cozy hot blanghet and read the nihgt befor Chrstmas. -Connor
- We decorate cokies at our Grandparents house. I like it when my frosting is Blue because it is like winter. I also like snow flake sprinkles yummy. - Kayleigh
- Christmas I like Christmas because I get to spend time with my grandparents. I meen both grandparents. - Emmett
- I love chrismas I love puting owt milk, cookees and carits for the rander and puting ordmins on the tree - Lisel
- Christmas, presents, elf, cookies. - Dax
- Christmas and now year - Jaxon
- I like to celebrate Chinse New Year. because we eat dumplings, oranges, grapes and strawbrarys and this year is the snake it was when my borther was born. - Dean
- Sunrise fectable. We see lights on the night. And we do it only in Korean. We love to see the lights on the night. We see peple on some lights. And there very cute. - Jason
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- I celebrate Christmas. My favorite ways to celebrate is watching Christmas movies and decorating our home like winter wounder land. New Year's Day I go to my cousin's house and watch the ball drop. - Paige
- are celebrate dia de los reyes. we get arroz con gandules and coqito. my dad side dus day uve the Dead. - Jojo
- I celebrate Christmas and New year's Day. I go to a amument park and see light's. - Daniel
- I celebrate Christmas eve. My favrite way to celebrate is going to my aunts hoase. - Colin
- I celebrate zoo lights and Drick hot coco in the car and Leave cookies (chocLite) for Santa and open my presents and Whach chistmas moveies. - Izarah
- One of the holiday is Ramadan. my favorite way to celebrate is to bake cookies. - Zumra
- We celebrate dia de los reyes mayos. we ate arroz con coquito. and we celebrate dia de los muertes. on the dia de los muertes. on the dia de los muertes we ate cookies and tomales. on dia de los muertes we rit litrs for tos reyes magos. - Brithany
- I celebrate Ramadan and I celebrate Ramadan Like theis so I fast and we make cookes and it is my favrit Holiday. and we decorate with PURPUL STUF. - Aicel
- Eid is a special holiday we mak eid cookies. - Sadan
- my family celebrates Christmas. Our favorite thing to do is read the Polar Express by the fire. Then we each open one gift. (on Christmas Eve) - Mrs. Jacobs
- christmas I like eating cookies - O'Sean
- christmas I lovs exchanging presents. - Steven
- christmas and new year's eve. celebrate with family - Jack
- christmas. new year's eve. give others present's. new year's indoor water park cookie's decorating the tree. - Silas
- I celebrate christmas. we listen to christmas muise. we make gingerbread. I lay out cookis and milk also carrot for the reindeer + santa. I help set up lights. My elf come's his name is elffey. For new year we wach the ball drop. - Siena
- hanukkah christmas - Calix
- I celebrate christmas on christmas I do bakeing cookies and decoraed my home and watch christmas movies and deceraed the christmas tree - Isabella
- I celebrate christmas and New Year's Day. I go to a amuse ment park and see light's - Daniel
- I like christmas because I get to put up my tree and get to decorate my tree. - Mya
- I love to get presents - Winston
- christmas. new year's. new year'se eve. christmas lights. - Jude
- chinese New Year - Kelvin
- my favrite thing to do on chrismtmas is to open presents. - Leo
Q: What are you most looking forward to this holiday season?
Glacier Ridge
- I like to get and give presents for my family. I also love to spend time with family and friend's - Kayleigh
- yummy foods and family traditions and my piano concert. - Dean
- The food and traditions. Sometimes we see family's. - Jason
- I'm looking forward to getting presents, snow, and choclete - Anika
- thanks giveing my favorite thanks giveing trdisons are thanks giveing diners, giveing, grand perents, my favorat dogs Baily and Izy, those are my favorat trdisons. - Harlow
- I'm most looking forward to seeing family and friends. If you celebrate new years eve and you only celebrate whith were family maybe you can invite some friends over? - Samayra
- we eat yummy turkey evry yaer we put ordmints on are tree. Are mom dad and are grand parints get epic presints for us and are cosins - Jack
- geting with far away family. leaving cookies for santa. - Madelyn
- I looking forward is snow this ere so I can go owtside or wochmovese - Landon
- The yummy cookes and milk. - Darcy
- Presente and I want Greegots bank (can't understand) - Logan
- I love geting present's on Christmas. Always the mail man givs us a magazine that has toys and I crcol what I wunt for Christmas - Nora
- I am looking presents and the food I see my family and bake cookes. - Santi
- seeing family and givving presents. - Aash
- For santa we owas mack ckookes. I pot up the Christmas tree then we decrate it in ormints…now 1 more thing go the bed and then the nex day presint!
- I like opening presents and see what I get and I hope I get a watch and a Nintendo Switch and a slime kit. - Kris
- I like giveing presents to fenlye peopel because I like giveing and I eat trkye. It ast so good I love the holldays they are so fun - Sibyl
- Decker rating the Christmas tree. - Connor
- oping presents yugest to old dis. reeding the book the night before christmas on Christmas eve. finding my elf chippy. eating cookies and laying cookies out and kareits for the raneder and santa. - Dax Peters
- geting presints and putting ordmins on the tree. - Liesl
- In Christmas I'm looking forward to setting up gingerbread house with my grandparents. Once my elf ate half of my gingerbread house - Emmett
Chapman
- For Chistmas I have hot choco late every day and mash potatos turkey and new year's watching the ball drop. - Paige
- on chrismas we get a chrismas tree and we bake cookies oso we have a elf. we see the ball drop we oso wohe a movies. - Leo
- we eat food. - Kelvin
- elf christmas tree decorating movies visit friends - Jude
- to get presents - Winston
- seeing my dad and opening presents and feeding the reindeer and geting to see my elfs - Mya
- I em most excited for my birthday and opening preses. - Jojo
- I am most looking forward to see light's - Daniel
- we get presents, watch movies, make cookies, eat cookies, visit famly, take picters - Colin
- cookies and gingerbread house. and hot chocolate. - Isabella
- I go see the lights! - Izarah
- Hanukkah we lite the candles - Calix
- on christmas eve we go to my cusin's house to celebrate christmas we have ham and mashed pototos also green beans. I can't wait for my peresent's I love to decorate cooki's. I like to drink hot chocolate. - Siena
- I am looking forward to donate and fast. and pray - Aicel
- elf. pick are tree. movies. music. zoo lights. gingerbread. - Silas
- presents - Sadan
- I am looking forward to seeing family, baking cookies, decorating the tree, opening gifts. listening to Holiday music and setting up Christmas lights. - Jack
- Eating dads lemon grilled chicken on christmas eve. - Steven
- on new years eve we watch the ball drop we also drink apple cider - O'Sean
- my favorite is giving gifts and watching them be opened! We also love going to the Zoo Lights on New Year's Eve. We also go to mass. - Mrs. Jacobs
- we decorat inside our house. we try to call family. - Zumra
- I am most excied becuse we give present and we have party. - Brithany
