Christmas Celebrations and Activities
Mrs. B.'s favorites! |
On Christmas Eve, NORAD tracks Santa's trip via satellite! Answers to questions like: How does Santa fit down the chimney? http://www.noradsanta.com |
Santa Claus at Claus.com A "Santa's Village" full of activities (has a Naughty or Nice meter!) http://www.claus.com/village.php |
Santa's Secret Village Santa's hideout at the North Pole with lots of activities http://www.northpole.com/ |
Christmas Around the World
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Bill Egan's Christmas Around the World
Lots of countries and a quite lovely presentation of the info. http://www.angelfire.com/comics/kristmaworld/ |
Christmas Traditions Around the World (Santa's Net)
...lots of countries, some with a whole page of info. http://www.santas.net/aroundtheworld.htm |
Christmas Around the World (The-North-Pole)
...about 30 countries listed, varied amounts of info. http://www.the-north-pole.com/around/ |
Christmas Around the World (SOON online magazine)
... a dozen countries listed http://www.soon.org.uk/country/christmas.htm |
How to say Merry Christmas in many languages!
http://www.wikihow.com/Say-Merry-Christmas-in-Different-Languages#Part_Two:_Alphabetical_List |
Christmas Celebrations the World Over
36 countries listed (note: has quite a bit of advertising) http://www.theholidayspot.com/christmas/worldxmas/index.htm |
B.C. School District #71 Christmas Links |
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More Learning About Christmas
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Some interpretations of how Christmas traditions came
to be
http://www.noelnoelnoel.com/html/trad.html |
Santa Claus through the ages
http://www.saint-nick.com/santa/index.html |
Christmas in Canada
http://www.craigmarlatt.com/canada/symbols_facts&lists/christmas.html |
Boxing Day in Canada
http://www.craigmarlatt.com/canada/symbols_facts&lists/boxing_day.html |
Christmas Crackers - a story of how they were invented!
http://www.absolutelycrackers.com/historynew.html |
The North Pole: Location, Weather, Exploration... and Santa
http://www.livescience.com/41955-north-pole.html |
Santa Land
"Taking you back to an era of Holiday Traditions we remember as Children. Send a letter to Santa, read holiday stories, Find Christmas carols, lyrics, and arts and crafts. Find Christmas recipes & care for that holiday plant Santa gave you. Track Santa on Christmas Eve." http://www.santaland.com |
School District 71 has many great links! Here's a
few:
Christmas Around the World - Internet Scavenger Hunt origins of symbols of Christmas, Boxing Day, Christmas crackers http://sd71.bc.ca/Sd71/Edulinks/xmas/index.htm#top |
St. Nicholas Who is St. Nicholas? Who is Santa Claus? Are they the same? http://www.stnicholascenter.org/Brix?pageID=23 |
A Timeline of Some Christmas Traditions |
Christmas Story Writing &
Word Games
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Christmas Word Puzzle
http://www.billybear4kids.com/holidays/christmas/puzzles/wp-xmas.htm |
Billy Bear Word Search
http://www.billybear4kids.com/holilays/christmas/p-xmas97.htm |
Christmas Stories - links
http://www.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/christmas.html |
Make your own story - from Black Dog Christmas
http://www.blackdog.net/holiday/christmas/story.html |
Christmas Art & Drawing
Activities
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Christmas Graphics
possibly the "World's Largest Collection of Christmas graphics!" http://www.yuleloveit.com |
Black Dog Christmas
Go to "activities" for online "build a snowman" and "decorate a Christmas tree" http://www.blackdog.net/holiday/christmas/index.html |
Billy Bear Arts & Crafts
http://www.billybear4kids.com/holidays/christmas/crafts.htm |
Christmas Recipes
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Christmas recipes
http://www.puddings.net Christmas recipes and forum: puddings, desserts, cakes, starters, maincourse, turkey, sweets, chocolates and gifts, cocktails, juices. |
Other Christmas Activities
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NORAD - North American Aerospace Defence Command
On Christmas Eve, NORAD tracks Santa's trip via satellite! Answers to questions like: How does Santa fit down the chimney? What snacks does he like to eat? How does he get everywhere in one night? http://www.noradsanta.com |
Santa's Secret Village
Santa's hideout at the North Pole with lots of activities http://www.northpole.com/Village.html |
Santa Claus at Claus.com
A "Santa's Village" full of activities (has a Naughty or Nice meter!) http://www.claus.com/village.php |
Spoonful (a Disney website) |
Santa Claus
Countdown to Christmas Clock, vote on your favourite reindeer, lots of activities http://www.emailsanta.com/ |
Santa Land - old fashioned traditions, lots of song
lyrics
http://www.santaland.com/ |
Lots of Christmas games and activities with Black
Dog Christmas
http://www.blackdog.net/holiday/christmas/index.html |
Billy Bear Christmas Maze Game & other activities
http://www.billybear4kids.com/holidays/christmas/maze1/maze-01.htm |
The-North-Pole
http://www.the-north-pole.com/ |
Thanks to the "Virtual Teacher" Newsletter
for the following fabulous Aussie sites!
Here are some of Cathy's own choices for Christmas activities. http://www.virtualteacher.com.au/christmas.html |
Wonderful resources and links from another Aussie
Tech. teacher
The Treasure Hunt for P-3 is really good! There are also Christmas Webquest ideas. http://www.teachers.ash.org.au/denise/Christmas.htm |
Christmas gifts
A colorful Christmas gifts' tale, e-cards, more xmas stories, holiday crafts and forum http://www.christmasgifts.net/christmasgiftstory.html |
Santa 's Net
http://www.santas.net/welcome.htm |
Saint Nick.org
http://www.saintnick.org/ |
My Merry Christmas...an assortment of info.
http://www.mymerrychristmas.com/ |
Email Santa
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Santa's Northpole Secret Village
http://www.northpole.com/Village.html |
Claus.com "The Merriest Place in Cyberspace"
http://www.claus.com/postoffice/index.php |
Santa Claus Official Website
http://www.emailsanta.com/ |
Black Dog Christmas
http://www.blackdog.net/holiday/christmas/addguest.html |
NOTE:
Many of the larger websites have an email option too. |
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updated (partially!) Dec. 2013