Friday, December 4, 2015

Another Baltic Christmas - Day 4, puzuri for kids

The most popular post of last year’s 24 Days of a Baltic Christmas was Inga’s tutorial on day 16: PUZURIS – An enchanting little decoration. The Latvian puzuri can be considered the most widely known traditional Latvian Christmas tree decoration, and besides being popular on Lithuanian and Estonian Christmas trees, the geometric decorations are seeing newfound popularity across the world.


Today a friend of Mikus joins us with a puzuris tutorial: this one more appropriate for little hands as the traditional form utilizes straw - not only difficult to find but hard to come by in our neck of the woods. Check out this video from the Fallon Time Show on how to make your very own puzuri from pasta and twine! (If you are receiving this in email form you might have to click through to the website to see the link, or you can click here to take you directly to youtube.)


A great big thanks to Fallon (and her mom!) for joining us on 24 Days of a Baltic Christmas. I hope she had fun learning about this centuries-old traditional ornament and is proud of the beautiful addition to your Christmas tree!



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5 comments:

  1. Drinking straws are also a child-friendly alternative for making puzuri!

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    1. Yes, thanks for the reminder! The plastic ones are great, and older children can usually work with the paper ones - more similar to straw, the original material.

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  2. Ah yes, these are wonderful! However, it's not just a Baltic tradition though - all Nordic countries (Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark) have equally been making these straw ornaments for centuries and centuries but called them "Himmeli"/"Himmel". That name at least originates from Germanic languages and they were also popular in Central Europe in the Middle-Ages - not sure what is the case of Puzuri though :)

    Great tutorial! Thanks!

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    1. Yes, the Scandinavian, Baltic and other northern European countries all have their version... You can find a bit more on the origins in this post: http://femmeaufoyer2011.blogspot.com/2014/12/a-baltic-christmas-day-16-puzuris.html

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