Let’s do some shopping at Vienna, Austria, Christmas Market! We really enjoyed watching the video, and got in the holiday spirit creating the crafts. We hope this makes for a great starting point for a fun time for you and your residents. Happy Holidays!

What to Eat:

• Käsespätzle: Mac and Cheese! An easy and yummy way to get you in the holiday mood. You can even make this dish vegan for those that cannot handle dairy.
• Powidltascherl (Plum Jam Turnovers): These are light and yummy. Check out this recipe for an easy way to make these delicious treats!

Things to Make:

Hanukkah Crackers Craft

Christmas Carolers Craft

Kwanzaa Candle Craft

Christmas Card Downloads

Fun Facts:

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1. The oldest Christkindlmarkt has been going strong since the 17th century. There’s a lot of chatter in the history books about when Vienna actually hosted its first market dedicated to the theme of Christmas. While many accounts there were Christmas markets happening in Vienna as early as 1296, there’s no clear proof that this is actually true. There is, however, plenty of proof suggesting that the first Christmas market in Vienna happened in 1764 at the same location where the so-called ‘Old Viennese Christmas Market’ is held today – on the square known as Freyung in the city centre.
2. The average a person spends on a visit to a Vienna Christmas market is about 22€ and the total expenditure by the locals alone at the markets amounts to about 100 million Euros (115,678,500.00 US). How many Turbopunsch can you buy for that kind of money?!
3. 4.6 million visits to Vienna’s Christmas markets are by people living in Vienna. Only 1.8 million people live in Vienna. We’ll let you do the math to work out how much the locals love getting high on the smells of cinnamon and Punsch every year at the markets. Let’s just say, it’s not just the bus loads of tourists that stream into the dozens of Christmas markets spotted around Vienna each year.
4. The only other time Vienna’s Christkindlmärkte were closed was during World War 2. So you could imagine how hard it would have been to be the person in 2020 to cancel them in 2020.
5. In a normal year, the Christmas markets make more than double as much as Amazon and Mariahilfer Straße around Christmastime in Vienna. The Christmas markets were expected in 2018 to drag in a whopping…wait for it…390 million Euro, according to a report by Der Standard.

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