Winter,Kwanzaa, Christmas and Hanukkah Links
December Celebrations
Scholastic site has simple explanations of the December celebrations. An activity sheet is provided.
Christmas Scavenger Hunts
For those who like to collect facts and visit a lot of different places around the digital world. The links could be good for comparison charting.
The Real Story of Christmas: History Channel Presentation
Holiday Food Ideas
Includes recipes for Hanukkah, Christmas and Kwanzaa
HGTV: Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanzaa
Craft Ideas for Kwanzaa, Christmas, and Hanukkah. There are activities for everyone.
Education World: HolidayCenter
Teacher Planet: December Calendar
The calendar leads to some good resources for Hanukkah, Kwanzaa,
Christmas, and Human Rights Day. Also, Snow and Ice links are available at
Yahoo Directory: Holidays and Observances
Links for every holiday you can imagine. This will lead you to many good sites and resources, such as the more than 890 sites for Christmas and over 100 sites for Hanukkah
EdHelper: Christmas and Hanukkah Activities
Membership required. Word searches, mazes, dot-to-dot, crosswords, & other activities such as crafts, and games.
Christmas Around the World
Recently updated page from the Yukon
Christmas Printables and Crafts
Christmas Scavenger Hunts
For those who like to fact gather. The scavenger hunt questions are available for downloading.
All Virtual Christmas Tree
The site has the stages of growth and caring of a Christmas tree. There are also some recycling suggestions. This comes from the Christmas Tree Farmers of Ontario
World Wide Chanukah Live
This site has links that will lead you to other good Chanukah pages
Teach-nology – Hanukkah & Christmas
This very useful searchable site has links to resources on many topics
Including Hanukkah and Christmas. Some resources are free, others require membership.
Kids Domain
The Kids Domain is place to check for any holiday. Links here are up to
date and will lead you to some fun and free things for your students
Awesome Clipart for Educators
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Theme Show
Main Page
Winter Page
Different themes are featured on a bi-weekly music show . These are available as podcasts. The download link is at the end of the set list. There are music shows on many topics of interest to teachers. The files are large. The winter set linked above is 67MB in size. Some songs may be more suitable for older students.
Quebec Winter Carnival
A-Z Teacher Stuff
Piles of resources on the winter theme for Early Years classrooms
Teacher Planet Snow and Ice/Winter
Good collection of links to resources on winter topics
Winter Sites
Polar bears, penguins, poetry, and snow - just a few things you can locate with these links
Snowflake Bentey
The site is about snowflakes and the first known photographer of snowflakes
Weather Network
Use the Weather Network tool at to measure the hours of sunshine at your latitude and longitude
Festival Du Voyageur
December 2006MStimson
Clipart from Microsoft