Calennig (New Year gift) was a popular New Year’s custom. In some parts of Wales, groups of boys would visit houses with evergreen twigs and cups of cold water, using the twigs to splash people with the water before being gifted the Calennig. Whilst elsewhere, children would go from door to door singing or reciting rhymes in return for a ‘Calennig’ which would be bread and cheese, sweets, or money.