It's a straw goat. The children don't usually make them though, you'd probably buy one.
Yes, people in Sweden have Christmas trees. The first Swedish Christmas trees were decorated with candles. Later they made their own decorations out of paper and straw.
The Julbukk, in Sweden, is a common Christmas decoration. It is the small figurine of a goat, usually made of straw.
Straw
Its to do with the straw in the stable where Jesus got born, he slept in a mainjar layered with straw.
Maybe a straw
Children leave their shoes on the windowsills and fill them with straw, carrots, and barley or the horses of the Wise Men. Their favorite is Balthazar who rides a donkey and is the one believed to leave the gifts.
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Straw.
I'm not entirely sure, but i saw on National Geographic that there is a Christmas custom that children lay out a box in front of their house with some hay or straw. Then at night a man dresses like Santa Clause and puts gifts in the box and has his horse eat the hay.
Swedes do not decorate their homes as much as Americans do at Christmas. Except for children's toys, there isn't much emphasis on gifts. Tomten, the Swedish Santa Claus, is used in advertising, but is not very widespread. Glogg, a spicy, spiked punch, is a popular Swedish Yuletide tradition, as is visiting friends and eating lots of gingerbread and pickled herring. Santa Lucia celebrations are held about two weeks before Christmas. The eldest daughter in the family dresses in white and wears an evergreen garland on her head crowned with lit candles. She then prepares a special breakfast for her parents and siblings. Perhaps the most intriguing Swedish winter tradition is the Julbok, or Christmas goat. People used to wear goat masks and distribute gifts to family members, but nowadays the Julbok is almost always represented as a decoration made of straw, from two inches high to six feet tall. You'll see it in store windows as well as homes. The goat is said to punish naughty children during the holidays by butting them with its horns.
straw dolls
See Him lying on a bed of straw.