Sinterklaas* They leave a carrot in their shoe.
Sinterklaas
I suppose you mean Sinterklaas' horse and not house. It is customary to leave a carrot in your shoe as a present for Sinterklaas' horse. Sometimes children also write little poems and leave them in the shoe as well for Sinterklaas himself.
The children leave hay for Sinterklaas's Horse. By the way what ever you want to call "Santa Clause" he is fake.
Carrots and hay
Hay and a carrot.
Sinterklaas is like Santaclaus. Only this guy is a protestant and travels by boat. - Sinterklaas is a protestant? I don't think so! Saint Nicholas is the Catholic parton saint of the sailors, thieves and children. His patron day is December 6.
With Sinterklaas (a Dutch festival celebrated at december 5 but it's preparations are always weeks before that) children let a shoe stand in the room so that Sinterklaas can put a gift in it.
Shoes! To receive a present from Sinterklaas (sort of Santa Claus) on his birthday. Put them in front of the fire place with a carrot for the horse of Sinterklaas.
The Black Men is an English equivalent of 'Zwarte Pieten'. The phrase refers to those who help 'Sinterklaas' in the Netherlands. Sinterklaas visits Dutch households on December 5th. He tends to collect paintings and carrots that are left next to the shoes that Dutch children set out. In exchange, he leaves gifts in the shoes of good children. A bad child may get a bag of salt or sticks.
They leave hay in their shoes for his horse
Santa Claus is called "de kerstman". Though many children don't get presents from him, but from "Sinterklaas". He is a special form of Santa Claus (one of its predecessors). "Sinterklaas" his birthday is celebrated on 5 December each year.