1.2. People participate in this holiday by decorating houses and yards with lights, putting up Christmas trees, giving gifts, and sending greeting cards have become holiday traditions even for many non-Christian Americans.
1.3. Christmas
2. Thanksgiving
2.1. Celebrated the 4th thursday or November
2.2. Families sometimes sit around a table, or together in a group around foods like roast turkey, cranberry sauce, potatoes, and pumpkin pie. They give thanks for everything they have.
2.3. Thanksgiving
3. Kwanzaa
3.1. This holiday is a week-long celebration, from December 26 to January 1,
3.2. The holiday's daily ritual begins with the lighting of one of the seven candles placed in the candleholder called the kinara, by a family member or friend. This candle-lighting is followed by a discussion of the importance of that day, a folktale, or a shared recollection of how the principle has influenced the family or friend participating in the celebration.
3.3. Kwanzaa
4. Halloween
4.1. Celebrated on October 31
4.2. American children dress up in funny or scary costumes and go "trick or treating" by knocking on doors in their neighborhood,attending costume parties, carving pumpkins into jack-o'-lanterns, lighting bonfires, apple bobbing, visiting haunted attractions, playing pranks, telling scary stories, and watching horror films.
