Why all Germans get THESE on their first day of school! | Feli from Germany
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- Tomorrow (September 12) is the first day of school for all students in my home state of Bavaria! 🥳 A day that's particularly exciting for all kids who are starting first grade because in Germany, we have a special tradition! All students get a Schultüte (school cone), also called Zuckertüte (sugar cone), on their first day of school. Let's talk about what that is and where it comes from! 😊
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To all of you who had a Schultüte/Zuckertüte as a kid: What did yours look like? And did you make it yourself or did you buy it? Let's share it in the comments below! 🤗
I only remember that my friend and I didn’t take it to school on the first day because we thought it was childish. 😅 The photo of the class shows all kids holding their Schultüte except of my friend (a girl) and I.
@@maxbarko8717What a short childhood, ending at the age of 6
I can't remember, to be honest. But according to the photographs, the cone was almost as big as myself and I seem to be very proud😊😂
@@J.U... Ich kann mich erinnern, dass in meinem Gymnasium regelmässig Geld gesammelt wurde, um ärmere Familien in der benachbarten Grundschule in dieser Hinsicht zu unterstützen. Nicht ideal, dass sich eine Schule gezwungen fühlen muss, Defizite des Sozialstaats ausgleichen zu müssen, sicherlich.
Das Bewusstsein ob der Ungleichheit innerhalb unserer Gesellschaft wurde für viele von uns dadurch jedenfalls sehr viel begreifbarer.
Meine Schultüte war ein Kettenkarussell. Ich fand das sehr cool, aber ich kann mich nicht daran erinnern, dass ich mir das Design ausgesucht hatte. Ich weiß aber noch, dass meine Kindergärtnerin damals für alle Schulanfänger eine Schultüte gebastelt hat und wir haben sie dann als Abschiedsgeschenk am letzten Kindergartentag von ihr geschenkt bekommen. Bei meinen jüngeren Geschwistern war es dann anders. Da durften dann die Eltern basteln und die Kinder helfen. Ich weiß auch beim besten Willen nicht mehr was drin war. Aber ich glaube ich habe sie am ersten Schultag schon in der Schule aufgemacht und reingeschaut. 😊
I was one of very few kids at my primary school who started learning German as a FL from year 1, and to this day I remember our German teacher coming in on the first day of school with this giant Schultüte which she opened up in front of us and gave us all treats and little gifts from. That was how I found out about this and it's such a nostalgic thing for me... looking back, my first German teacher had everything to do with why I love the German language and culture to this day.
Is there any particular tradition as to What's in it? Just tobs of candy?
I did, too! I actually was in year 2 when I started German, but was the only one in my grade school to learn a foreign language. I continued through junior high and my first two years of high school, but then I dropped out and got my GED because I had to work. Long story, but I've actually forgotten much of my German. I never use it anymore. I can read it near fluently for a high school kid (I still read German news and magazines) and speak some (very little and all conversational), but understand almost no spoken German anymore. It still makes me sad. I used it a lot until I was 21, because my best friend was from Duisburg.
@@livrowland171 i would say in general its a mix of sweets and school supplies... with many - or maybe most - kids probably being more excited about the sweets ;)
I've been living next to a Grundschule for many years, and it's one of the highlights of my year to watch all the littelens on their first walk to school - usually with a parent or both- carrying this humongous cone with such pride. It's the cutest thing you'll ever see.. 😍😂🎉
As a German, I still remember my first day at school with such a Zuckertüte in my hand, although that was more than 50 years ago. We were damn proud to be the "big kids".
What I found particularly cute lately was when I saw a YT video of a U.S. girl who participated in the CBYX / PPP German-American high school exchange program, where students live in the other country for about a year. So she also got a Zuckertüte for her first day at German school, presented to her by her German host parents.
The USA needs to start this tradition, kids would love it🎉🎉🎉🎉
given the atrocious income inequality in America, it would be very awkward for children from poorer families.
well the government could hand them out like everything else. LOL@@pwp8737
@@pwp8737that’s where your mind went? How pathetic.
@@pwp8737USA already has major health issues. Do you really want kids coming home with all that candy first day 😁
@@pwp8737in a lot of German schools, parents of children that are grade 2 or further donate money to the school so they can provide to poorer families. Not only for the cone, but for stationary as well. 'Normal' Americans would do that as well, I'm sure. But i get your point, unfortunately...😔
First day of school Feli: AWWWWWW, cuteness overload. That's a really cool tradition too. 🙂
amazing keeping the same big positive smile all those years......impressive
Yeah! Put those kids into public institutions to destroy their brains so their selfish mothers can go work and pretend to be men. Nice!
This! 🥰
Yeah, I remember that one. Parents buttering you up with candy, making it seem like school's going to be super exciting. I fell for that one too, for about a day or two...😁
Yup, it's a big snow job. But hey I'm a whore for sugar so bribe away. I'm cheap.
Made my day....
I would like to see this catch on in the US.
Adults seem to find a way to celebrate every little change in their lives (such as "engagement showers").
I like how this sets children up to have a positive feeling about school.
Actually that really is the main reason for this tradition. To „versüßen“ (sugar-coat) the beginning of school-life. As Feli explained Kindergarten and Pre-School aren’t considered School in Germany.
@@defender4004 Kindergarten is different in the USA than in Germany.
@@Habakuk_ That's...what they said?
@@defender4004actually the most significant part of starting kindergarten in Switzerland is the “Kindsgi-Dreieck” (kindergarten triangle), the shiny reflective triangle keeping kindergarten pupils safe in traffic (YES, we let our kindergarten pupils walk to kindergarten!) and the “Znüni-Täschli” (the little bag for the nine o’clock snack).
Going to school means saying goodbye to the “Kindsgi-Dreieck” and wearing proudly your brand new shiny school bag to school. Those are supposed to be light weight, sturdy and contain reflective surfaces and are seen as mandatory for at least the first 2-4 school years.
Yeah for those who can afford to do this.
I'm from Brazil but my daughter studies in a German school, so she got her Schultüte on her first day. She helped us making it. We were very happy to incorporate such a great tradition.
I grew up in the Soviet Union, and we didn't have such a tradition. But our tradition is to bring to school a big bouquet of flowers, and in little children, it looks a lot like the Schuletüte)))). I got a Schuletüte here, in Germany, when I started my Sprachkurs)). My German friends brought it to me, and it was incredibly sweet! I smiled the whole year while using the pens and stickers from the tüte. They made a cone, of course))
😊 thats so sweet
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In a world that is becoming increasingly homogenized due to globalization it's really cool to hear about traditions and practices that are quite different in other places. My mom was the daughter of German immigrants but growing up in NYC I'd never even heard of this until watching this video.
My wife lived in Germany as a child, as her father was stationed there for three tours of duty. When she began school in Heidelberg, she received one. She went on to become a high school German teacher in Texas for almost 30 years and when we had children the each received a zuckertutenbaum.
Unfortunately my Schultüte brings me bad memories, LOL. It was in 1966. Well, Mum and Dad were very busy and Dad had argued with her because for days he had been telling her that he did not feel like coming with us. (Half a year later he left us forever, so the end had been near, but they really did a good job in hiding that to me!) When we arrived at school, Mum was busy with my appearance and asked Dad to take the Schultüte out of the car. He nodded. The plan was that all children should meet at the yard where a photographer was waiting, then have the Schultüten handed over by their parents, and the photographer would do his work. Well...... everyone had their Schultüte. ... I was the only one without because Dad had forgotten to do what Mum had asked him for...
I remember I felt so embarrassed by being the only child without a Schultüte. After the shoot we went inside, were introduced to our teacher, and every child was allowed to open the Schultüte. The only one with nothing to do was me...... Now, it happened so long ago but some things we will never forget.
My grandmother was German & she made them 4 us grandkids as well as her kids when they 1st started school 4 kindergarten & filled them with baked goods, school supplies
So me & my cousins were the only 1s 2 have them
She & my grandfather lived on a farm in northern west Virginia
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Oh yes, I loved my Zuckertüte so much I gave one to my son when he started school in California. He was the only kid who received one!
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I'm from Baden-Wurttemberg and started school in 1994.
I remember that 2nd-4th graders would stat school on Monday, and the following Saturday we'd have our ceremony, including an inofficial first day at school with our first homework. School then started officially 2 days later on Monday.
The ceremony was in the gym of a nearby secondary school we shared the gym with, our principal would introduce all teachers, our class teachers at the end.
Before the introduction, our school choir performed a musical; everyone would sing and some acted instead of it.
We would then move to the church next to our school, for the class picture, holding our Schultuete the whole time.
The church had steps in front of it, and the sand stone with the heavy, wooden door were a perfect background as well.
We entered the school, went to our classrooms and to our seats, on which our teacher had placed name cards.
I remember being upset because my name was spelled without an h lol. The teacher took a marker and just inserted it on the top between the t and the a.
She showed us around school and then we went back, got our timetable and our very first lesson: letter O of the alphabet.
After the 45 minutes, the class was over (a typical German school hour), we got a paper for homework - an A4 sized paper printed with a HUGE O we were asked to trace at least 10 times until Monday, any color was applicable. We took our Schultuete and Ranzen, and our parents waited in front of the classroom door.
I felt SO big, having recieved my first homework.
Oh, and we learned a song. I don't remember the title, but it starts: Ich bin jetzt ein Schulkind und nicht mehr klein. (I'm a school kid now, all grown-up)
Around that time, English started to become more common in elementary schools, first as an option to choose, from the year 2000 a MUST.
My big sister, born in 1972, made sure that our mother opted for English. It meant I had to come earlier one day a week, and my best friend didn't do it, but a bit more than half of my class did (we were 26 as a whole class)
My first English teacher came from the base in my hometown, and at our first day of English she'd come in without a single word, put a tape into the cassette player and let us listen to FROSTY, THE SNOWMAN on repeat, until some of us started humming or tried to sing along, then handed us a lyric sheet with a cute snowman on it.
She then asked us (in German), what we think the song is about and that German and English have common roots so we shouldn't worry too much, plus that the lessons are going to be English only so we should remember a few phrases as a homework, like if we want to go to the bathroom or drink etc.
Our teachers changed every year, in my 4 years of elementary school I had this American teacher, Ms Kennedy, the next year a British, in 3rd grade a Canadian, and in grade 4... I don't remember. My city tried to expose students to different English, so teachers circled through grades and taught at different elementary schools.
The only similarity was that everything was an all-English environment.
As an American of German heritage I got one all of the other kids were green with envy lol
When i lived in Germany, i loved watching the little ones with their sugar cones.
We have given kindercones to all 8 of our grandchildren. There is a lady in the US who supplies them.
Even though I live in America and was born here, my Oma still gave me a Schultüte. Now I dont really remember mine, I remember my little sister 's. Hers looked purple, with a bunch of star stickers on it, but also with a unicorn horn.
.4:53...Erich Kästner.. . "Easter bunnies" .... Because the school year/first day of school started around Easter until 1966 in (Western) Germany. 😊
the first day of kindergarten, the first day of school, the confirmation, your own engagement, the wedding and then you're an adult and only celebrate other people's parties.
In Poland it is called: tutka, tytka or tyta. Sometimes it's called "róg obfitości" which literally means "horn of plenty". It's regional thing mainly in Silesia, Greater Poland and Kashubia
Nie miałem pojęcia, że w Polsce są takie rzeczy.
In Bydgoszcz (Bromberg) as well - I remember that I and my sister also got it.
@@MistrzSeller Jak napisała, nie jest to typowe dla całej Polski, ale szczególnie dla południa i Śląska.
My first day my grandfather did it for me and my brothers. He’s from Munich 😊
Just when I think you will run out of German-American differences, you reached all the way back to first grade to surprise us once again.
Such a fun tradition! We have a German exchange student living with us this year, so now I have something new to ask him about his homeland. Thanks Feli!
As an American who did his first day of first grade in Berlin, I loved my sugar cone. My parents had made me a small one but before I headed off to school that morning some family friends who were German showed up at our apartment with a huge one for me. What was even better, theirs was filled with German style school supplies instead of the American style supplies my parents had bought (think soft zippered fieldtasche instead of hard pencil case, etc). As I recall we opened them in class that morning at school after meeting our teacher and classmates for the first time. Having a proper sugar cone made me feel like I belonged even though I was an American. Thank you so much for reminding me of that day!
This Zuckertüte is called tyta in polish and this tradition is popular in Silesia region.
Alas...my 1st day of school is memorable in that I was sat down at a table where one child wouldn't stop crying and the other child had a pale look on his face and then proceeded to throw up all over the toys on our table. I remember the teachers running to take the one boy to the bathroom (to throw up more) and the other someplace to be calmed down. I got left there for about 5-10 mins with a table of toys covered in barf. And my mother couldn't understand why I didn't want to goto to school the next day :)
I’m a first generation American. My parents came from Altenburg, Thüringen. Although I did not get one at that age we did revive the tradition for my kids here in Texas. All three loved it. A great memory!
My Schultüte was a bought one. It was on display in the window of a small starionery shop in our street. It was pink and purple with velvet and shiny polka dots and the most beautiful thing I had ever seen. Whenever I walked past the shop I would stop and look at it in awe. Until one day it was gone. What a surprise it was when my parents gave me exactly this Schultüte filled with sweets and school supplies on my first school day in August 1990. I was the happiest school kid one can imagine.
I am from the eastern part of germany, born in 1983. So in addition to my "Zuckertüte" I also got my "Pioniertuch", a blue piece of cloth that every new member in the "Jungpioniere"-Organization got. (a mandatory organization ofthe state for young people).
My "Zuckertüte" was also bigger, as you said. But round too :)
That was the only time in my life that I enjoy school. No one back then told me school would be this bad.
As a retired teacher and educator in the United States, I never heard of this. Tradition would be new clothes for the first day of school with picture day a few weeks later ...every child gets a headshot that ends up in yearbooks and given as gifts to grandparents.Teachers often celebrate the children's birthday at school with the wearing of something that says it's my birthday. Americans tend to celebrate achievements with certificates that also include social development as well as academic/ creative.A sugar cone here is the edible container ice cream. In Texas girls wear a giant mum with ribbons to homecoming from their boyfriend. That's about as flamboyant as I ve seen.
My mom insisted I get one, even though I went to school in Canada. The night before my first day of grade 1, I got my Zuckertüte, with candy, a pencil case with pencil crayons and my Staedtler sharpener and math kit. Ruler, protractor, compass, etc.
It was pretty cool, and had me prepared for school.
My mom made mine for me, I don't remember what it looked like sadly, but it was decorated
I feel ripped off!😂 only thing special we made In kindergarten was macaroni necklaces! 😂😂😂
Okay but those are awesome!! 😂
I have photos from the early 1930s of my late mother proudly holding her "school cone" on her first day of school in northern Germany (Bremerhaven/Hamburg area). I wish she had lived long enough to see your cute school cone photo Feli, I know she would've loved it as much as she loved watching your channel. 😇
I wish I could see the photos! ❤ Awesome!
I`ve got a Photo of my Grandfather holding his schoolcone in 1910 in West-Prussia (now Poland) . so it was also a tradition there
@@alexamurawski4524 My ancestors are also partly of Prussia, both part, but alos of slesonian and it's tradition over there too, but not to the poles !
@@Eysenbeiss my mother and her family are also from silesia 👍
@@EysenbeissI heard that in German schools they teach children that the Germans were the first to be invaded by the Nazis. Is it true???
"Grades aren't everything, passion is" Yes, that's why we're going to school; get all that passion driven right out of us...
My Schultüte had a brown bear dressed as a school boy on it. My mom made it :) It was filled with toys, candy and school supplies. In our region it's traditional to keep the cone for your last day of school because in the last week of school (before Ausbildung or Uni), we dress up to different themes. One theme is always "first day of school" when everybody dresses as a first grader with their Schultüten from back then.
My son graduated from highschool in Germany after 12 years. He said, that the Schultüte is there for to wrap all the sorrows in sweets for the poor kids.😅😅.
You may imagine how much he enjoyed his schooldays.
I also REALLY like the idea of the sugar cone tree, and each cone holding a little tchotchke of some kind
That was the one tradition I never got to do as a little girl. When my family was stationed in Darmstadt (98'-05'), my older brother did get a Schuletüte when he started 1st Grade. However after we moved back to the States in 2005, I never received one on my first day - of 1st Grade - and never understood why. Thinking about it now, my guess is that American elementary schools thought a giant gift bag full of toys and chocolate (not realizing there's school supplies too) would be considered a "distraction" amongst that student's peers, and everyone would want what's inside it. To this day, I promise that my little girl will get her Schuletüte and if the school wants to argue with me on that, then they will have to fight me in her cultural right. BTW, I am 1/2 German on my Mom's side.
We never had the back to school cones (live in the US with mostly German ancestry), but my mom always tried to do something to make the first day of school special. She took the day off so that she could drop us off and pick us up fom school, even though most years that wasn't our main mode of transportation getting to school. While we were at school, she would get her hair done, nails done, and get a massage. We would usually go out to eat, with appetizers and desserts, which was considered a splurge in our house to get both. At Christmas, along with the candy and small toys in our stockings, she would add school supplies that we were most likely to have lost or used up already. Some years, school supplies ended up in Easter baskets, too.
It was interesting hearing the timeline of how the tradition spread, especially when comparing when/where my ancestors emigrated from Germany. It sounds like the tradition might not have reached their area yet, but the mindset of making the first day special and instilling a love of learning made it over.
Meine Schwiegertochter ist 2016 nach Deutschland gekommen und hat in 2017 ihre Ausbildung begonnen. Dafür habe ich ihr damals eine Schultüte gebastelt, worüber sie sich sehr gefreut hat. :-)
I knew a family when I was a kid. The Father married a German Woman while in the US Army in Germany after the Second World War. Their first child was a toddler on the ship to America. I seen their home movies. The German language instructor at my College was also a War Bride. These American Soldier/Husband's were German by Blood.
My German class High school teacher was a war bride came to the US just after the war
My mum made my Schultüte. It was a big round cone, red with a Dalmatian to match my school bag.
I'm a teacher at a secondary school and each time a new colleague starts at our school they receive a small school cone filled with sweets from the rest of the staff to welcome them at the school and to sweeten the start in their new job. I love this tradition!
I grew up in Germany but live in Spain and made one for my son. I am not very talented and was glad that there was no competition of the nicest and biggest Schultüte made by ambitious moms as It seems now to happen in Germany. My son was excited, but he didnt take It to school obviously. Mine was red with some ferry tale stuff on It, my brother s was brown and green with animals, I was 3 when he started 1st grade and I still remember!! Sometimes brothers or sisters get small ones, how well I remember that I didnt get one of those. ;-)
Those are so cute!! What a lovely tradition! :)
When I started Kindergarten here in Texas in the 70's, my Mom was given a list of items to buy for my first day. One of those things was a sleeping mat for nap time, which wouldn't fit into a Schultüte. It folded twice, so it was 3 large connected sections. Almost all of the items I needed fit into my school box (pencils, crayons, sharpener, eraser, etc), and my paper and wooden ruler was put in a folder. So we only had 3 items to carry (folder, school box, and mat) on my first day.
The mat was large and stayed in the classroom until the last day of the school year when everyone took theirs home for the summer. I think we stopped having nap time in 2nd grade, but really don't remember now for sure. I know we didn't take naps in 3rd grade, but can't remember if we did in 2nd or not. Seems like we did, though.
Anyway, school boxes back then (and probably still today, for all I know) had the Pledge of Allegiance printed on the inside of the lid so kids could refer to it until they learned all the words, as we had to say it every morning. I was really stoked (excited) for my first day of school, but I remember walking into the classroom and half the kids were crying their eyes out begging to be taken back home. I couldn't understand why so many of them were upset. It was weird. A tradition like yours in Germany might make more kids here in the US happier about going to school. Either way, it's adorable! :)
On my school it was also typical to have a Teddy bear/plüschtier on the top. I loved that my mum keep that idea and made a tiny sugar cane for us at the first day of every year in school
Being born and raised in Nuremberg/Germany and now living in Nebraska /USA, I remember fondly of my Schultüte. Mine was yellow. And I was so proud taking it to first class that day. We also had to wear a yellow pompom hat so people would know the first graders going to school. Oh the memories! 😊❤️
I do this with my son every year! That’s just the “thing” we do for school every year, we didn’t stop after the first one! His first day of school picture is always him holding his cone. My family came from Germany and I remember my cousins getting one when we were children and I always wished I could have one, so I decided to do that for my son! Now I make him a schultüte each year and he loves it. I fill it with candies, school supplies, and little toys and things that he’s interested in that year.
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Meine Schultüte war grün und wurde mit orangenem Krepp-Papier verschlossen. Zu meiner Zeit wurden die Schultüten noch nicht selbst gebastelt sondern gekauft. Vor 12 Jahren habe ich zufällig herausgefunden, dass meine Schultüte aufgehoben und aufgehübscht wurde bevor sie dann 5 Jahre später meinem Bruder übergeben wurde.
I started school in Baden-Württemberg and there it was, the parents who made the cones. So it was my mother who made me a lion cone and I received it at breakfast on my first day of school.
I'm American and I think this is a lovely tradition! Well done!
I graduated this year from high school in Berlin and my mum gifted me my Schultüte (the original one from when i got into first grade) and filled it again. Its pink and has littel kittens and flowers on it. By now i definitely would choose a different design but i love mine just for the memories i have of it✨️✨️
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We moved to Germany when I was six, and by the time all the arrangements were done, it was October, so that's when I started school. No Tüte. My sister, who's a year younger than me, got one the next year, and I guess my parents felt bad for me, so I got one at the start of grade 2. Got made fun of for that, too. :(
This was in Berlin.
My German parents told me about these. However, I don't remember ever having one of them for my first day of school in the U.S.
What they did for me (the first day of each grade school year) was to provide me with a brief case type of pouch for my supplies and papers (no back packs in those days - 1st grade was in 1959). I always had a new dress and shoes for the new school year, and then to take a picture of me in front of our house.
My wife and I, who both teach at the University of Oklahoma, spent a sabbatical year in Leipzig in 2007-8. Our daughter was the right age to receive her Zückertütte (little did I know we were near the birthplace of the tradition). The other thing I most remember about the start of school in Leipzig was the need to purchase _extremely_ specific school supplies for both my kids.
Extremely specific?!that's what I call understatement😂😂😂❤
@RealFeliFromGermany..... einfach die perfekte Botschafterin ,mehr kann ich nicht sagen
Cool tradition. Not sure why there isn't a ceremony in the U.S. for going back to school but could be because most of us aren't happy that summer vacation is ending and we have to go back to school 😆
I started school in Germany in 1955. At that time school started on April 1st. No kidding!
In our region summer break was during the switch of producing summer- and wintercollection of shoes (our region was the central of producing shoes in germany). While summerbreak the machines in the factory were upgraded for the next collection. But this was specially for our region, not for whole rhineland-palatina. So yes, our summerbreak was always in june/july. And just the kids who startet the first grade got a school cone.
I'm from Saxony so when I started school in 1988 I got a big hexagonal one. Some had plushies on top of it, but I had a flower bouquet. On the sugar cone were famous fairytale figures from the Augsburg Puppet Theatre (my grandma bought it). In the tip of the cone was a sweater (so that the tip did not break), coloured pencils, small books, colouring books, pack of cards, a small plushie, some knick-knacks and of course a lot of sweets. It was quite heavy so most of the time my dad kept it.
As was said in the video we had a huge celebration on the Saturday before our first school day. My dad brought my cone to school beforehand so it was already in my new class. We had a real celebration in the auditorium where our new teachers and headmistress made speeches (boring, there were cones waiting for us!) and the older elementary kids had a small program with songs and some fun stuff. It was still in time of the GDR, so of course some of it was propaganda. Afterwards we went through the school to our class room where we got our personal congrats and hello from our teacher and of course our cones. Photos were taken and then we went to our personal celebrations at home (or at restaurants).
We also had a sugar cone tree. It stood in our kindergarten and there were many small cones on it when we had our last day and farewell. Of course everybody got some of these filled cones.
There are different ways for the kids to get their sugar cones, depending on the enthusiasm and connections of the school and parents. My dad brought my cone to the school the day before and it waited in the class room. One of my cousins had to go on a hunt where the kids had to solve small riddles and at the end find the room where the cones were. And there is the possibility to get the cones from outside. One time one of our farmer decorated his horse-drawn carriage and had all the cones on it. He said to the children that he harvested the strangest fruits. And in a village in our neighbourhood the fire brigade will bring them. The kids love it when they pull into the school grounds with blue lights and sirens. Always fun.
My kids actually did get a Schultuete for their first day in school here in the US. So yeah we did bring this tradition here, well at least as far as our family goes...
It's all true! My little boy had one for the first day of school ❤️
My daughter-in-law and her sisters started this tradition when they came home from a trip to Germany. We are of German descent on both sides of my granddaughters families. I had never heard of it but the girls love their Schultutes.
Now I wish we had that tradition, I feel like I missed out.😀
Hi there, in Switzerland they are becoming more and more popular. Since it's not really established, who gives it to the kid, my son, who startet school this summer, got a total of three schultüten. one from each grandma and one from school 😂😂😂🤦
I had only ever heard my mother use the word tüte to mean a bag. Always something new to add to my vocabulary.
Here in Lower Saxony my daughter had her first day of school three weeks ago. At her school we had a big ceremony on the Saturday before the actual first day. Weirdly (at least for me) the sugar cones had to be stored in school the day before and the teacher gave the out after the first lesson while the families were waiting outside. So the children came out of school with their cones instead of going to school with them (as I did when I was little). The teacher said the school introduced the approach to stop the competition between parents who gave their children the biggest cone. Well, maybe it had gotten out of hand, idk.
My godfather that moved to Germany 20+ years ago, got me one ! I don’t remember what was in it, but I was soooo happy to have one ! I never threw it away, although maybe my parents did.
I loved my first day at school and my Zuckertüte! Mine was filled with Maoam and school supplies. Siblings got a small one so they weren’t jealous… The oldest children at school prepared an assembly for the new starters and performed little anecdotes. We all had an older mentor who then brought us into the classroom. I loved doing that too in my last year of primary school - the girl I mentored remembered me many years later!!
My Schultüte was an elephant, it was mostly yellow and orange instead of grey, though, with huge ears and trunk. My best friend at the time had one in the shape of a mouse, a bit like yours. Where I'm from it is not uncommon for younger siblings to get a tiny Schultüte, too, so there wouldn't be any jealousy or fighting over the sweets. I have to say that I was a bit miffed that I didn't get a tiny one, too, when my younger sister got hers on her first day of school a few years later!
My first day of school started with a church service for all first graders and their families (which was, now that I think of it, a bit weird for nothern Germany and the fact that my school wasn't a denominational school, either), afterwards we went to the school where we were welcomed by the teachers and the older kids who performed a little play and song for us. Then all first graders were shown into their classrooms (family had to stay outside for that bit) so we could meet our classmates, chose where we would sit and write our name tag. We got our timetable, I think, and were let out again (it's been 30 years so my memories are a bit hazy). After that, we had a little party with friends and family. The actual first day of school started the next day.
My nephew just had his first day of school a fee weeks ago and it was pretty much the same, minus the church service.
(Also, let me just say, I did a double take when I saw that picture of you on your first day of school, you looked so much like my sister at that age, especially your smile!)
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I remember getting one of these sugar cones here in the US when I was 5. We lived in Bergen County, NJ at the time, which was 52 years ago.
Ich bin jetzt seit diesem Schuljahr endlich voll ausgebildete Lehrerin und habe von meinen Freunden eine Schultüte mit Drachen zum “ersten” Schultag bekommen, diesmal mit roten und grünen Stufen, Büroklammern und allem was das Lehrerherz begehrt ^^ ich finde das eine tolle Tradition
This is such an adorable tradition! What a great way to make the first day of school that much easier and special for the kids.
We knew some kids in Wisconsin who got one! I think it's such a cool tradition.
I wanted to do this for my kids or something similar. Before kindergarten, we ended up getting a special lunchbox, supplies and I let them pick a cookie recipe they want for their lunches for the first week of school. Then we get ice cream after the first day. My kids are older and in high school/junior high and we still do the cookies and first day of school treat. Anything to make it special.
My German teacher in University would bring a cone of sweets on test days. And she had a photo of her on her first day of school with one and she was so cute!
English below:
Wir haben unsere Schultüten damals selbst im Kindergarten gebastelt. Meine war damals blau grün mit allen möglichen Dschungeltieren. Fand die mega cool damals und war richtig stolz drauf. Was genau drin war weiß ich nicht mehr genau, aber ich weiß, dass damals eine Diddlemaus mit Schultüte und Schulutensilien und ein paar Guttis (=Bonbons auf bayrisch) drinnen waren. 😊 war voll schön die auch gemeinsam mit den anderen Kindern im Kindergarten gebastelt zu haben.🎨
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We made our own school cones back then in kindergarten. Mine was blue green with all kinds of jungle animals. Found it super cool back then and was really proud of it. What was inside I do not remember exactly, but I know that there were a Diddlemouse with a school cone and school utensils and a few sweets inside. It was really nice to have made the school cone together with the other children in kindergarten.🎨
That mouse cone is so cute! I wish North America had a tradition like this. I never got to make anything that cool going to school in Canada.
We should make this a tradition here , just like the Christmas tree. Fantastic great memory like the pinata. This is cool and teachers should learn about this and start it.
I grew up in North West Germany and started school in 1975. During that summer, we visited our relatives in the GDR - in Saxony - which was a big adventure for me. My parents bought my school cone while being there. So I was the only kid with a hexagonal cone in my school and yes, it was also bigger than the others 😊
What a lovely tradition. Wished we had something like that in the Netherlands for my daughters when I first brought them to school. Now it's to late being university graduates and student on an artschool. Never mind, I've soiled them in other ways.
My daughter got her cone when she started school. It is in the attic. My mother sent all my grand kids cones. My granddaughter has been going to Germany every year since she was 4. She loves shopping at Woolworths. My mother just passed away so we will not be going back again.
Hallo Feli, es macht mir richtig viel Spaß deine Videos anzuschauen. Es ist unglaublich, aber durch dein Video, habe ich mich tatsächlich an meine Schultüte und meinen ersten Schultag erinnert. Auch wenn dieser über 40 Jahre her ist, erinnerlich mich an die „riesige“ hell rosa Tüte, mit dem kleinen grauen Kätzchen auf der Vorderseite. Meine Eltern hatten diese so vollgepackt, das ich fast nach vorne überfiel 😂 Da wir Deutschen ja bereits soviel von Amerika übernommen haben (Valentinstag und Halloween) wäre es doch witzig, wenn du eine SCHULTÜTE-BEWEGUNG startest 😅
Here in the US, we take pictures of children getting on the bus and of their first day of school every year that they go to school. We do make a big deal about it but we don’t feed it with sugar. That’s a lovely German tradition though maybe we should pick it up!
I never saw this during my five years I Germany, but then I was in a military camp. The kids went to English schools and this wasn't present there. Those were boarding schools that served many camps. I think it's a good idea for youngsters to help them settle in school.
The only thing I had on my first day at school was a fight. The kid was also called Colin, and I wasn't having that. After they pulled me off him, I had a tantrum, and they had to get my older brother to calm me down.
I was allowed to choose my Schultüte myself. We bought it at the same place where I got my school materials. I remember the multicoloured drawn picture of a lion cub. I had an apple, a chocolate bar and some LEGO in it.
I almost forgot about these. I remember my girlfriend’s (now wife) daughter getting one of these on her first day of school in Berlin.
Was ein schone tradition.😍
Wir haben das tradition nicht hier in der Niederlande. Our first day what we get, are probably getting candies and a welcome present from school😁
Für die Kinder ist der schule very exiting so its fine to get a suprise/überraschung😊
My Schultüte in 1980 was actually a bit American. It was blue and yellow and had Donald Duck on it. I loved it!
I grew up in Colmar, France and I remember my visit to Freiburg as part of a school exchange. My German school mate for the day was given money by his mom after lunch to buy and share one of those in the afternoon. It was so cool for me to be honest
In the middle of back to school and the middle of a recession.🇺🇸
In 1953, my father was in the army, and my family lived in Germany. Even though I went to an American school on base, I do remember getting a cone.
Fun fact - the English word “toot,” meaning to blow a horn, does in fact come from Tüte, the German word for the horn itself.
Interesting material. We don't have anything like this in Poland, but I remember that in a Kinder Chocolate ad a child had such a cone.
I know from my Polish (more precisely: Kashubian) neighbors that this custom is known in parts of Pomerania.
It depends where you live. In Silesia, Greater Poland or Kashubia it is well known custom
I have heard that Hebrew schools also celebrate and make a big deal about the very first day of school too. No, idea if they have cones, but they do have treats.
I remember being more or less the only kid without a cone on my first school day (in Graz, Austria). Because, of course, my parents were very modern and enlightened, and did not hold with stupid traditions. Needless to say, I was immediately very skeptic about school, and never stopped hating it.
By the way, I hit the like button as soon as I saw First Day Feli with her huge mousey 🐭
Pandas were my favorite animal so my sugar cone had little pandas on it. I also remember the whole thing was a HUGE deal in our family because Schulanfang just so happened to fall exactly on my 7th birthday, so my beginning of school celebration was combined with my birthday party and I was honestly a bit overwhelmed with all the presents haha. My sister (who was not even a year old at the time) also got a small sugar cone, so that she wouldn't feel left out. It looked just like mine but smaller.
My grandparents made a sugar cone tree for me in their garden, but not just with cones for me but for all the children that were there (my sister and my cousins). We also had one at the first day of school. (I'm from Saxony so our Schulanfang was the Saturday before the first school day. I actually didn't know that wasn't the case in all of Germany.) Our teachers put one for each child on a tree in the schoolyard so after our first proper day at school we all got to pick little sugar cones.
We JUST saw this last Saturday in Berlin and my gf was like "what is THAT??". Perfect timing on your video!