Why is New Year's Eve such a big deal?

Who Smarted? - Educational Podcast for Kids

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Kids & Family, Education For Kids

4.4 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Where does the New Year happen first? Why do we use noisemakers to celebrate? How is NYE celebrated around the world? Have you started your FREE TRIAL of Who Smarted?+ for AD FREE listening, an EXTRA episode every week & bonus content? Sign up right in the Apple app, or directly at WhoSmarted.com and find out why more than 1,000 families are LOVING their subscription! Get official Who Smarted? Merch: tee-shirts, mugs, hoodies and more, at Who Smarted?

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0:00.0	Pts, hey, Smarty Pants, it's almost New Year's Eve.
0:06.5	So what are you up to? Are you eating grapes, wearing red pajamas? Did you sprinkle salt on your doorstep?
0:13.7	Huh?
0:14.4	Yeah, I know, it sounds crazy. But is it any crazier than this?
0:19.1	Happy New Year!
0:22.7	As it turns out, different cultures around the world
0:25.8	celebrate New Year's Eve with different traditions.
0:31.2	Hola!
0:32.4	In Spain, we eat 12 grapes.
0:35.1	One for each strike of the midnight clock.
0:41.2	Hope we eat 12 grapes, one for each strike of the midnight clock. Hopefully it will bring us prosperity and good fortune in the new year.
0:45.5	In Brazil, citizens head to the beach, setting candles and flowers afloat, a gift to an ocean deity
0:52.6	known as Yimoja.
0:55.2	They wish for this mother of all deities and giver of life to bestow her blessings upon them
1:01.3	in the year to come.
1:05.3	Ah, in Italy, we wear red Andes for a luck and success next year.
1:12.3	Felizano Nuo.
1:18.0	Citizens of Chile gather in cemeteries.
1:21.6	This way, they can include their ancestors in the New Year's Eve festivities.
1:29.9	And the Greeks promote growth and renewal by hanging onions on their doors?
1:37.0	Oh, I'm not sad. It's the onions. Happy New Year.
1:43.4	In Turkey, they sprinkle salt on their doorsteps at midnight to promote peace and prosperity.
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