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With the filled Halloween buckets still on the table, it is November 1 today and Sinterklaas is almost getting aboard his steem ship. The monsters don't know which party is better, Halloween or Sinterklaas. They had so much fun yesterday. Fortunately, the good Sint will not arrive for a while, bringing chocolate letter!

Here is our November agenda:
On November 11 it is Saint Martinmas.
Everywhere in the Netherlands there are lantern parades and the kids sing special songs. We make a beautiful Dragon Lantern to take outside.

Diwali, the beautiful Hindu festival of many light, is celebrated on November 12th.. We make special Diwali lights from cardboard, with the older kids, but also easy ones with the little ones. We bake festive mini cupcakes. and decorate the house with the candles.

The Sinterklaas Journal starts on TV on November 13, with a 10-minute broadcast every evening at 6 p.m. up to and including Tuesday, December 5.

Sinterklaas will arrive in in person in Rotterdam on Saturday, November 18, and the little monsters are already looking forward to it! We will probably be standing on the quay to welcome Saint Nicholas and the Pieten to our city, such fun when we see the boat arriving in the distance. Watching together with all the other Rotterdam kids and parents, on the quay.

The television broadcast of the national arrival of Saint Nicholas and the Pieten in Gorinchem is also on Saturday, November 18. So that's a choice! Either we all watch Sinterklaas arrive on television at 12 noon (just like last year) then we see the arrival in Gorinchem, or we go to the quay in Rotterdam to see the Sint arrive in person.

We are making two Sinterklaas surprises for school, they are fun for boys and girls. We make two different games because who doesn't like a game? Every child, right?

Thanksgiving is celebrated on November 23 in America, Canada and various South American countries. Thanks are given for the harvest and all the good things of the past year. We make turkeys, which symbolize this festival. They appear on the table because eating with family and friends is the tradition at Thanksgiving.

We also read a lot of beautiful winter books, even though it is not (yet?) cold outside :). There are plenty of fun things to do in November and we are already looking forward to it! We hope you will join in!

photo: Thanksgiving Craft (November 22 online)