--- title: December Global Festivities Marked by Google Doodle description: Google is celebrating the December Global Festivities with a new interactive Doodle series about birds visiting family for the holidays. canonical: https://time.com/5068291/december-global-festivities-google-doodle/ author: Eli Meixler article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-12-18T02:51:09.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-12T23:30:47.000Z og:title: December Global Festivities Marked by Google Doodle og:description: The new series features a pair of penguins visiting tropical-weather family og:url: https://time.com/5068291/december-global-festivities-google-doodle/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4115f2768eaa8184/6988f67f22fb8513dce24385/screen-shot-2017-12-25-at-10-11-41-am.png?branch=production&width=750&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Screen Shot 2017-12-25 at 10.11.41 AM og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: December Global Festivities Marked by Google Doodle twitter:description: The new series features a pair of penguins visiting tropical-weather family twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4115f2768eaa8184/6988f67f22fb8513dce24385/screen-shot-2017-12-25-at-10-11-41-am.png?branch=production&width=750&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # December Global Festivities Are Being Celebrated by Google With a Seasonal Doodle ## Video: How Google Makes its Doodles [Watch (HLS stream): How Google Makes its Doodles](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/upF0qp1E.m3u8) (3:23)  _Published 2018-07-07. Our videographer went to the Googleplex in Mountain View, California to meet some of the designers and coders who create the special, clever variations on the Google.com logo known as_ by [Eli Meixler](https://time.com/author/eli/) ## Eli Meixler Updated: Dec 12, 2023 11:30 PM UTCPublished: Dec 18, 2017 2:51 AM UTC  Google Doodle by [Eli Meixler](https://time.com/author/eli/) ## Eli Meixler Updated: Dec 12, 2023 11:30 PM UTCPublished: Dec 18, 2017 2:51 AM UTC Google on Christmas Day continued its[ series of festive, interactive holiday Doodles](https://www.google.com/doodles/holidays-2017-day-1) with a heartwarming family reunion. The seasonal Google Doodle series is all about two penguins, a “pair of slippery-footed siblings,” who are “excited to spend time with their warm-weather relatives,” a toucan and a parrot, [according to Google](https://www.google.com/doodles/holidays-2017-day-1). The first installment in the December global festivities series, published Dec. 18, showed the penguins inside their icy igloo, making plans with their tropical relatives and packing their bags for a holiday.  Google Doodle The Christmas Day update shows the penguins happily running toward their toucan and parrot friends, gifts in hand. In a later frame, “this colorfully feathered family can’t wait to sink their beaks into a delicious feast” as they gather around a tropical holiday table, [Google writes.](https://www.google.com/doodles/holidays-2017-day-2) (Don’t worry, there’s no turkey to be found.) The Doodle’s final panel includes a past photo of the reunited family, as well as a pile of wrapped gifts that hint at the series’ next installments — Dec. 31, New Year’s Eve, and finally, Jan. 1, New Year’s Day — that will pick up the penguins’ adventures as they ring in 2018. **Correction:** The original version of this story misstated the direction penguins would travel to reach tropical climates. 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