Christmas Links

General Links:
The History of Christmas-Truly awesome site that includes videos, traditions, games and much more!
http://www.history.com/content/christmas/world-traditions

The Gingerbread Man with Everything- decorate a gingerbread man online! http://sprintsweets.com/

The Rain Deer Orchestra and is a great motivating site for number recognition 1-10 because it incorporates music!
Using the SMART Board students simply touch the nose of the reindeer ( a white glove squeezes the nose) and it
plays a musical note. It also is effective for addressing cause/affect objectives. It does give you the option of
following a pattern to play 3 Christmas songs or you can opt for free play and create your own beautiful music!
http://dingo.care2.com/cards/new/0422/Do-a-rain-deer.swf

Can you put Rudolph back together again? http://ngfl.northumberland.gov.uk/ict/mouseskills/christmas/rudolf.html

Lots of Seasonal Activities: http://www.northpole.com/

Design your own gingerbread house online

http://www.highlightskids.com/Magazine/Dec05/h1magazineFlashObjects/h11205DecemberArtist.asp

Gingerbread Junction: Roll up your sleeves and get ready to bake and sell gingerbread cookies! The ingredients
have already been donated. Now it’s up to you to help the Foxdale Food Pantry meet it’s goal of $150 in 5 days.
http://www.highlightskids.com/Magazine/Dec04/h1magazineFlashObjects/h11204DecemberArtist.asp

Rudolph is Missing online story- Asks inference questions as the story goes on. http://www.learn-
ict.org.uk/resources/rudolph/rudolph.htm

Rudolph Rodeo- Click on Play Rudolph Rodeo. This one is a timed game for choosing the correctly spelled word.
http://www.britishcouncil.org/learnenglish-central-games-santa-rodeo.htm

Christmas Puzzlers #1 (grades 2-3) http://www.lauracandler.com/filecabinet/seasonal/ChristmasPuzzlers1.pdf

Christmas Puzzlers #2 (grades 3-4) http://www.lauracandler.com/filecabinet/seasonal/ChristmasPuzzlers2.pdf

Christmas Word Game http://www.lauracandler.com/filecabinet/seasonal/xmasgame.pdf

Santa’s Trip: Students view a map of the world, shown the route that Santa will take to deliver toys and then they
have to touch the countries to recreate his route. Very fun! When the correct country is touched students even
magically travel to that country to see the gifts deliveredhttp://www.uptoten.com/kids/kidsgames-mixedbag-
santaclaustrip.html

Snow Line game http://smartboards.typepad.com/smartboard/files/snow_line.swf

Raymond the Reindeer Christmas stories read aloud http://www.northpole.com/ReindeerBarn/

Sesame Street has lots of cute Christmas videos. Just go to this site and type Christmas in the search box to find
them: http://www.youtube.com/user/SesameStreet?blend=2&ob=1#p/search/0/ofIuFQ7Xdl0
Christmas Ideas from Teachnology http://www.teach-nology.com/teachers/lesson_plans/holidays/christmas/

Christmas Tongue Twisters http://xmasfun.com/Fun/TongueTwisters.asp

Grab the Grinch Game http://www.seussville.com//titles/grinch/games/shockgrinch.html

Free Christmas Stories to download or listen to- audio only http://storynory.com/category/christmas-stories/

Christmas Thinking Puzzles, Analogies, Logic Problem and more http://edhelper.com/Christmas.htm

Kids Christmas Sudoku Puzzles http://math.about.com/od/sudokupuzzles/ss/xmassud.htm

Christmas Logic Puzzles http://www.puzzles.com/Projects/LogicProblems/ChristmasChoir.htm

Printable Christmas Puzzles and Mazes http://www.activityvillage.co.uk/christmas_puzzles.htm

Christmas Puzzles http://www.logicville.com/xmaspuz.htm

Christmas Around the World Links:

Winter Holidays- Christmas, Hanukkah, & Kwanzaa http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/holidays/

How to Say Merry Christmas in many different languages http://www.santas.net/howmerrychristmasissaid.htm

Christmas Around the World Scavenger Hunts http://www.henry.k12.ga.us/pges/xmas_around.htm

Christmas Traditions Around the World http://www.santas.net/aroundtheworld.htm

Christmas Around the World eMint theme http://www.emints.org/ethemes/resources/S00000501.shtml

Christmas Traditions Around the World http://www.kented.org.uk/ngfl/festivals/xmas.htm#world

Santa Across the World http://ngfl.northumberland.gov.uk/christmas/santa/default.htm

Christmas Around the World Webquest

http://www.schools.manatee.k12.fl.us/webdisk/landers/WebPages/christmas2.1/christmas.html

Kwanzaa Lesson Plans from Teachnology http://www.teach-nology.com/teachers/lesson_plans/holidays/kwanza/

Hanukkah Lesson Plans from Teachnology http://www.teach-nology.com/teachers/lesson_plans/holidays/hanukkah/