Holiday festivities are not a stranger to many, and while waiting for Christmas morning to gather around a tree and open presents is fun, it's not the end for many Latinos.

In fact, it is in the middle of the holiday festivities for some Latinos, since they celebrate other traditions well before and after Christmas.

These holiday festivities aren't even small celebrations. They're undoubtedly big events where Latino families and friends celebrate before Christmas and sometimes even in the middle of January.

Here are four other traditions that Latinos look forward to:

Día de las Velitas

Día de las Velitas, or the Day of the Little Candles, gravitates around a religious holiday in the largely Catholic country.

The holiday takes place on December 7, the eve of the Virgin Mary's Immaculate Conception.

It's theorized that since making tamales is a chore that requires lots of time and hands, an assembly line in the tamaladas would be both a great bonding experience and a way to get the tamales done.

"A tamalada is a multifamily, multigenerational event," says Sylvia Cásares, who owns Sylvia's Enchilada Kitchen, told Texas Monthly.

Historically, tamale making really is a social event, with everyone having their own task to look after-from cooking filling and preparing wrappers.