Happy Holidays!
Welcome to a collection of holiday websites gathered for your enjoyment.  Sites are organized by holiday celebrated throughout the school year, so just click on the holidays below, and have a great time!


General
Halloween
Thanksgiving
Christmas, Hanukkah and Winter
Chinese New Year
Valentine's Day
St. Patrick's Day
Easter

©2010 This website was created by Lauren M. Bott, Librarian, St. Mary Magdalen School, Wilmington, Delaware.  Any questions or concerns may be directed to Mrs. Bott at smmbottl@hotmail.com.  Last updated: 04/15/2011.


General

Lesson Plans Page (http://www.lessonplanspage.com/Christmas.htm)
    For some great ideas on holiday lesson plans.

Teachology's Lesson Plans (http://www.teach-nology.com/teachers/lesson_plans/holidays/)
    A web portal for educators with great information.



Halloween

Halloween Activities for Kids (http://www.apples4theteacher.com/holidays/halloween/)
    Coloring pages and more to celebrate the holiday.

Best Virtual Pumpkin Carving  
This is great! If you like cutting snowflakes, try this!

Virtual Pumpkin Carving
       Carve a pumpkin into a jack-o-lantern, and then see the results lit up.

Online Pumpkin Cutting This is cool. 

Click and Drag Pumpkin Decorating

Make a Spider Glider
A craft project to help you decorate for Halloween.





Thanksgiving

First Thanksgiving Cyberhunt  (http://teacher.scholastic.com/lessonrepro/reproducibles/instructor/cyberhunt/0011/cyberhuntkids.htm)
    A great webquest sponsored by Instructor magazine to teach children about the first Thanksgiving (Grades 2 and 3).

Kids Domain.com's Thanksgiving Fun  (http://www.kidsdomain.com/holiday/thanks/index.html)
    Thanksgiving cards, games, crafts, recipes, and Turkey tales.

The First Thanksgiving  (http://teacher.scholastic.com/thanksgiving/index.htm)
        From Scholastic, a great set of resources for teachers regarding the First Thanksgiving.

Thanksgiving Fun at Greentown School (http://viking.stark.k12.oh.us/~greentown/thanksgv/thankgiv.htm)
    Many, many Thanksgiving links provided by Greentown Elementary School. Enough to keep you busy for hours! Excellent!

Thanksgiving Lesson Plan  (http://www.2020tech.com/thanks/temp.html)
    The Center for Indigenous Studies produced this information that takes a different historical perspective on Thanksgiving.

Thanksgiving Resources for Web Educators (http://www.midgefrazel.net/wqtg2.html)
        An unbelievable collection of Thanksgiving resources, collected by Midge Frazel.

Thanksgiving Theme Unit  (http://abcteach.com/Thanksgiving/ThanksgivingTOC.htm)
        Teachers, this is the site for you -- story starters, turkey poetry, art projects, crossword puzzles and more revolving around the holiday.

Thanksgiving Turkey Match



Christmas and Winter

Billy Bear's Christmas Page  (http://www.billybear4kids.com/holidays/christmas/christms.htm)
    A great page with advent calendars, screen savers, a feature to send a snowglobe, and much more!

Billy Bear's Hanukkah  (http://www.billybear4kids.com/holidays/hanukkah/hanukkah.htm)
    Learn about Hanukkah, play the dreidel game, or make candle treats at this great holiday site.

Christmas.com (http://www.christmas.com/)
    A site for the whole family, with Christmas recipes, traditions from around the world, Christmas games, and a coloring book.

Craft Ideas.com  (http://www.myfree.com/fpt4.html)
    If you can ignore the ads, this site has some great Christmas craft ideas.

Christmas Time at Kid's Domain  (http://www.kidsdomain.com/holiday/xmas/)
    Everything Christmas can be found here from puzzles, games, and crafts, to holiday graphics, music, recipes, and stories.

Decorate the Christmas TreeDouble click on the ornaments or lights to remove them from the box, then drag them to the tree.  When you're finished, turn off the lights to see your tree glow!

Felt Board Snowman 

The History of Christmas  (http://www.historychannel.com/exhibits/holidays/christmas/)
From the History Channel, this site is full of information on Christmas traditions and their origins.  Check it out!


James and the Christmas Wagon  (http://www.imagitek.com/james/)
    An animated story for younger students.

Learn About Snow  (http://www.muohio.edu/dragonfly/snow/snow.HTMLX)
    Not only can you learn about snow and ice here, but you can also make your own flake!

Make a Flake (http://snowflakes.lookandfeel.com/)
    A great site where you can cut virtual snowflakes!

PaperSnowflakes (http://www.papersnowflakes.com/)
    All kinds of great ideas for holiday paper snowflakes.

Santa Claus.com (http://www.santaclaus.com/)
    Where you can e-mail Santa, find Christmas cards, recipes, and Christmas activities.

Snowflake Bentley (http://snowflakebentley.com/)
    The website of the original photographer of snowflakes, Snowflake Bentley.

Snowflake Concentration  (http://www.papersnowflakes.com/jsgames/concentration/concentration.htm)

Snow Crystals  (http://www.snowcrystals.com/)
Great information on different types of snow flakes and how they're created.



Chinese New Year

Chinese New Year at Kids Domain  (http://www.kidsdomain.com/holiday/chineseny.html)
    Great links to all kinds of Chinese New Year sites, including printable activities.

 Chinese New Year  (http://www.chinascape.org/china/culture/holidays/hyuan/newyear.html)
   Some great information about the holiday.

Chinese Name Translator  (http://www.mandarintools.com/chinesename.html)
    Type in your name, your attributes, and your birthdate to find out your Chinese name.



Valentine's Day

Valentine's Day Crafts and Printables

Valentine's Day Wordsearch Puzzle

Valentine Fun at Kid's Domain  (http://www.kidsdomain.com/holiday/val/)
    Crafts, games, cards, and more to celebrate Valentine's Day.



St. Patrick's Day

St. Patrick's Fun at Kids Domain  (http://www.kidsdomain.com/holiday/patrick/index.html)
    Everything you'd want to do for St. Patrick's Day.

St. Patrick's Day Maze   (http://www.billybear4kids.com/holidays/stpatty/online-mazes/maze/maze1.html)
    Lead the leprechaun through the maze to his pot of gold in this virtual game for the primary grades.

Tic Tac Toe with the Leprechaun   (http://www.billybear4kids.com/holidays/stpatty/tictactoe/index.html)

Catch the Leprechaun   (http://www.billybear4kids.com/holidays/stpatty/catchme/mlink.htm)
    He's fast -- can you catch him?

St. Patrick's Day wordsearch   (http://www.billybear4kids.com/games/online/search/stpats.html)
    A great virtual wordsearch for elementary students.

Leprchaun Dress-up Game   (http://www.billybear4kids.com/holidays/stpatty/dressem/up.htm)
  Primary students can have fun dressing the leprechaun.



Easter

Billy Bear's Hoppy Easter  (http://www.billybear4kids.com/holidays/easter/fun.htm)
  Includes online games, an online coloring book, Easter clipart, and more!

Easter on the Net  (http://www.holidays.net/easter/)
    Includes the Easter story, along with every Easter activity you'd ever want to do.  Great!

Eastertime at Kids Domain  (http://www.kidsdomain.com/holiday/easter/index.html)
    You can't beat Kids Domain for the amount of activities and links to Easter sites.



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