St. Nick - December 6 - cute idea

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At a local church for Dec. 6, Saturday, feast day of St. Nick, the kids were told to bring a shoe with their name on it, put it in the vestibule, and maybe St. Nicholas would leave something in it for them. Cute idea.

It’s an old country custom, I think.
 
I think it’s a Polish tradition. It’s super sweet. I like it much better than our Christmas stockings.
 
Many European countries do it 👍 . It used to be that in many places, St. Nicholas was the gift giving day and Christmas was for going to Mass and celebrating Christ’s birth.

We did shoes outside the bedroom doors when the kids were younger. I have only one left at home and she still likes to do it!

This week I had my homeroom bring in shoes. Tomorrow St. Nicholas will leave a little something in each shoe.
 
We do this at my girls’ catholic school. We (the PTS) purchase gold foiled chocolate coins and put them in little draw string bags. Then while they are at Mass, we put them in their shoes. They love it!
 
We did this as children in Germany. I remember how fun it was. We actually had these wooden clogs that we had to put outside the door of our military housing apartment.
 
Kids put a shoe outside their classrooms, both at New School and Old School. As a staffer with no regular classes, I took great delight in helping the good bishop at Old School.

The little people are mighty susceptible to suggestion. With only a little prompting, the preschool saw St. Nicholas riding away on his steed down a busy street, with Necht Rupert behind him on the saddle, dropping switches. And the Kindergarten ran from their filled shoes to see hoof prints at the back door of the school.
 
Feast of St. Nicholas is very fun. I have my kids write little thank you notes to him and leave them in their shoe for him.
 
We are going out tomorrow to help St. Nicholas- Early, in the twilight.
 
Dh and I are both of German decent and our families have always followed this tradition. It is always so much fun. Our kiddos leave their boots out for St. Nicholas to leave them a small gift (or switches) in. Our older two love it and they have been really talking St. Nicholas up to our 2 yr old and now he is excited. 😉
 
We do this at home as part of our Advent devotions, although this year, Daddy and I have to be away from the kids for one night while they are at the Evangelical grandparents, so St. Nicholas’s feast day at our home will be Saturday night/Sunday morning. :o
 
dove51 said:
I think it’s a Polish tradition…/QUOTE]

You could be right. It is at least kinda mid to eastern Euro. I was first introduced to it by some German folks. I’ll have the granddaughters this weekend. Thanks for the reminder 🙂
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Our family version involves leaving socks by the fireplace the night of Dec. 5. We wake up in the morning to find a tangerine in each toe, gold chocolate coins and a candy cane sticking out the top. This custom comes through my husband’s family, from Germany many generations ago, and all living in Cincinnati (heavily German) until recently.

Margaret
 
I challenge all you who think St. Nicholas is the trouble find somebody’s early morning to brighten through leaving a something-or-other on their doorstep.

Some of the things we are leaving:
  • candy canes (of course).
  • Dunkin Donut coupons for coffee an’.
  • Canned goods for those who need them.
  • small toys from Dollar Tree.
  • boxed cookies.
    Surely you know somebody who could use a lift!
 
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