For each holiday, the Danes are prepared seriously and methodically, and all the festivities are imbued with merriment and carefully preserved spirit of the past. Almost all religious holidays take place on a big scale. On New Year's Eve the Queen's holiday speech is broadcasted on television, and on the evening of January 1 - the speech of the Prime Minister. At midnight, the Danes drink champagne and eat kransekage - a cone shaped pie. The hostess puts on a table a bowl of sweet rice porridge, at the bottom of which lies a nutlet - the girl he will get will have a wedding in the coming year.

On Shrovetide, children, dressed in colorful costumes and masks, walk through the streets with birch branches, decorated with bright ribbons, and sing songs, hoping to collect sweets. And at the end of the day they gather at a barrel suspended on the tree, trying to split it - the one who succeeds to it not only gets hidden inside the sweets, but also becomes the king of the holiday.

Easter in Denmark is celebrated for two days in a row, cover a festive table with a variety of meat dishes and brew beer. Symbols of the holiday - Easter rabbit, chicken and lamb - are made of caramel, sugar and white chocolate and therefore enjoy great success in children. Coloring eggs is usually trusted by children, in the lessons of labor, children learn to draw Easter patterns. Many families play the game: they write letters to each other, instead of signing, putting the points by the number of letters in the name. The addressee must guess the sender and give him an egg.

On the night of 23 to 24 June, the Danes celebrate St. Hans' Day, timed to coincide with the summer solstice. Throughout the country they organize mass festivities, dance around the fires, sing songs, usually on the coast. Bonfires are lit after sunset, trying to support the outgoing sun.

On Christmas Eve, a special children's program schedule is broadcasted on television, including numerous cartoons for the whole family. Many families go to church that day. Preparation for Christmas begins two months before the holiday. The streets are decorated with garlands, lanterns, red silk hearts. In Copenhagen in the main square set a huge spruce, which the Danes give Norwegians.

At the beginning of December, a wreath of spruce or juniper with four white or red candles is put on the table and every week one is lit. Fir or fir is decorated for the holiday, and secretly from children - bows, balls and candles. In the house they arrange straw goats, cocks and pigeons, associated with Scandinavian mythology. Gifts are usually wrapped in colored paper and sealed with a red sealing wax, inside put poems and wishes.