Creative Christianity – Enrichment Friday During the first Creative Christianity session we looked at Christmas in Mexico. We learnt that they decorate with nativity scenes and pinatas. For nine days they celebrate Las Posadas that symbolises Mary and Joseph’s search for shelter. Families go from house to house singing carols and asking for lodging, often ending with a party. However, the main focus of our session was the poinsettia flower known as ‘nochebuena’ (Christmas Eve) flowers in Mexico. They flower in Southern Mexico during the winter. They are significant in Mexico around Christmas as a young girl, who was poor, wanted to gift Jesus at Christmas. She had nothing to give so she picked some green plants from the roadside and took them to the church. When she put them by the altar, the plants turned into beautiful red flowers! These flowers are called poinsettias, and now they are a special Christmas flower in Mexico.