Children in Holland and the Netherlands leave hay and carrots in their shoes for Sinterklaas' horse. They believe doing so will get them sweets in their shoes.
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In Holland they leave out their shoes? SO WHAT? focus on me
carrots and sugar cubes
They put a carrot or an apple in their shoes (they have normal shoes like the ones in the US or in the UK). Typical presents are a chocolate letter (your initial in chocolate), pepernoten or a small toy.Children leave bread and milk in their shoes. they may also provide apples.
Carrots and hay
carrots and hay.
In France, children leave shoes by the fireplace on Christmas Eve so that Pere Noel (the French version of Santa Claus) can fill them with presents while they are asleep.
They leave it outside there doorstep and then there santa puts presents or coal in itThey place their shoes on the doorstep, and in the secret of the night , the three wise man pass leaving gifts.
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.
Santa, or Sinterklaas, travels on a horse. Kids leave out their shoes with gifts for the horse and they are replaced with presents.
They leave the shoe with a carrot or some hay in it and a bowl of water nearby "for Sinterklaas' horse"
Children do not fill their shoes on Christmas Eve. They leave their shoes out so that when Santa Claus comes he can fill them with small gifts.