Christmas and New Year in Morzine

There will be plenty on the programme to keep the whole family entertained. Including: 

• face painting
• illumination of a large Christmas tree and the Christmas star
• fireworks
• lots of street parades
• christmas markets
• workshops for kids and adults on various themes
• light painting
• the arrival of Father Christmas
• DJ's for New Year's Eve

To prepare you for your French Christmas, here are a few festive facts that make the French Santa Claus a little different:

• Rather than a red hat, Père Noël wears a red cloak with a hood trimmed in white fur - a small difference easily unnoticed.
• Children do not wake up to presents under the tree on Christmas morning, because traditionally Père Noël brings toys to good little boys and girls after evening Mass on Christmas Eve.
• Children do not leave milk and cookies for Papa Noël, but at the very least they'll leave him a glass of Calvados or wine.
• Children do not hang stockings, but rather leave their shoes and slippers out and if they have been good Père Noël will fill them with treats.
• Children in France behave around the holidays out of fear of Le Père Fouettard, who follows Père Noël to discipline naughty children.