Zuckertütenfest

Zuckertütenfest: Sugar Cone Festival

Last week the Götze family celebrated Zuckertütenfest, as one of their daughters, Haila, was going to be entering the first grade. Zuckertütenfest, or Sugar Cone Festival, is a German tradition, a celebration for the transition of children from kindergarten to primary school. In Germany, kindergarten is basically for teaching kids social skills, learning to be a part of a group and such. They do learn a bit of the ABCs and math, but they don’t have to sit down a lot. They learn songs, dancing and spend most of the time outside. The “real” learning and sitti...