Sugar cone festival
With the sugar cone festival , school beginners are bid farewell to kindergarten before they start school . It is mainly celebrated in East German kindergartens .
Name and origin
The name refers to the sugar cone, which is mostly filled with sweet delicacies , today also known as the school cone, which is supposed to sweeten the start of school for children and which, according to legend , should grow on a certain tree, the sugar cone tree.
Sugar cone festivals have been known since at least around 1960.
execution
Days in advance, the educators and parents familiarize the children with the story of how the bags grow. At the sugar cone festival, small sugar cones are then hung as fruits on the so-called sugar cone tree, which are intended to show the children when they will start school and at the same time encourage their anticipation for school and also the “right” school cone for school entry. The festival is one of the last meetings of the kindergarten children, as some of them do not meet again after kindergarten when they come to different schools. The course of the festival is designed individually in each kindergarten. It takes place shortly before the kindergarten children start school. In many kindergartens, parents and grandparents are invited to the festival to take part in a day program designed by the children. The children perform small dances, sing songs or the like. Based on the sugar cone festival, in some facilities younger children also receive a small sugar cone when they transition from day care to kindergarten.
Today, children's festivals organized by companies, associations or communities are often mentioned as sugar cone festivals, which refer directly to the day of school enrollment.
Sugar cone tree
The sugar cone tree is an important part of the sugar cone festival. Its fruits are the sugar cones that children in many German-speaking regions are given when they transition from kindergarten to elementary school. It is especially widespread in East Germany.
Usually the children bury sweets in the earth around the tree a few days before the sugar cone festival. The sugar bags then grow from it. For some, a slightly larger bag is hung on the tree every day to show that the sugar bag is "growing".
On the day of the sugar cone festival, the bags are cut down and given to the children.
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- ↑ Article class register reveals pranks of yore
- ↑ Hurray, we're going to school soon !! “Sonnenkäfer” kindergarten, Lugau , archived from the original on September 28, 2007 ; accessed on May 11, 2014 .
- ^ Stations in life in Germany 1900 to 1993: Farewell party in the day nursery. German Historical Museum , accessed on May 11, 2014 .
- ↑ Sugar Bag Festival. Archived from the original on November 9, 2012 ; accessed on June 26, 2019 .