Christmas

Track Santa on Christmas Eve

Christmas History and Traditions

Christmas Around the World (Kids Domain)

Christmas Traditions Around the World

How Christmas Works
The complete guide to Christmas traditions.

The Legend of Santa Claus

Holiday Stories and Traditions

Christmas Legends - Fact or Fiction?
Clarify the history of much-loved holiday customs and discover both Christmas myths and facts.

The History of the Christmas Tree
The traditions of many cultures come together in the decorating of a special tree during the holidays. This lesson plan introduces the uses of evergreen trees, logs, and the special place of lights from ancient to modern times.

Reindeer from Enchanted Leaning

Reindeer from Fact Monster

Holiday Lesson Plans

Literature and Language

A Dickens of a Party WebQuest
Students will be attending their own Christmas party, 19th century style, dressed up and role-playing a character from Dickens' "A Christmas Carol", but only after they have completed all the research in this excellent webquest on Victorian times. Teams will use online resources and student
guides to explore social conditions, fashions, etiquette and behavioral expectations, and pastimes of the era. This webquest supplies a great extension activity for Dickens' timeless classic.

"A Christmas Carol" comprehension questions. Find a list of twenty-two possible questions here for using with your high school students when reading "A Christmas Carol", by Charles Dickens. Use the questions for reading comprehension, reading response journals, or for further development in the form of student essays.

Scrooge for Mayor
Students will scrutinize life as presented in "A Christmas Carol" to find issues for Ebenezer Scrooge to support in his new bid for mayor, role-playing as reform strategists and campaign managers to create a campaign poster, a PowerPoint presentation, a newspaper article, and an election brochure. Middle & High School

Christmas Alliteration
Print out copies of this worksheet to have your students create their own holiday alliterations--or even better-tongue twisters just for Christmas.

Christmas Story Starters
For all twenty-five days in December before Christmas day, find a story starter to keep your students writing, despite the holiday excitement and approaching holidays.

Holiday and Winter Writing Prompts
Here are a wide variety of winter-themed writing prompts. Some include visual prompts, some use a word bank to increase vocabulary, while others require poems and other writing formats.

Math

The Twelve Days of Christmas
How much did all those birds, pipers, dancers, etc. cost? Students will use a graphing worksheet and a data cost sheet to compute the cost of all the items received during the Twelve Days of Christmas.

Christmas Math Worksheets
Select your grade level--from preschool through fifth grade and download a printable math worksheet of leveled skills, with Christmas theme.

Santa's Elf Spreadsheet
It's time for holiday shopping, and students have $200 to spend. They will shop using advertisements and catalogs, entering actual costs and not going over budget in this spreadsheet lesson.

Science

Minerals Make Christmas
What do minerals have to do with Christmas and the holiday season? Quite a lot, as it turns out, and most of them surround the Christmas tree and the gifts found underneath it. Find out more with this download, complete with a student worksheet.

How Christmas Lights Work
Conduct a mini-science fair for the holidays, putting a different flavor on celebrations. Here is one idea to explore: investigating just how Christmas lights work.

Crystals, Christmas and Science
Grab the borax, some pipe cleaners, and some polygon shapes for this exciting, hands-on holiday experiment. Combining a Christmas theme with a science lesson, students will be creating crystal ornaments and writing up their lab reports.

Worksheets

Christmas Worksheets from TeAchnology

December Bulletin Board
Students "share" their designs in a pass-around format, with both writing and art included in the exercise.

Christmas Through Passports
Teachers in the same grade levels team up to present a multicultural holiday event. Classes travel to a different teacher each day to learn about holiday customs for one country, including crafts, and how to say "Merry Christmas" in that language. A great bonus to this approach is that each teacher only has to present or focus on one country.

Holiday Gifts & Crafts Page

Christmas Fun

Merry Christmas from Kids Domain
Christmas links, clip art, activities, games, history, Christmas around the world and more.

Online Christmas Carol Songbook

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus

Printable Advent Calendar

Holiday Graphics Collection

Holiday Writing Paper

Christmas Games
	Christmas Memory Puzzle	Christmas Jigsaw Puzzles Assortment	Christmas Trivia Quiz
	Polar Pairs	Unscramble the Christmas words	Christmas Games & Songs
	Christmas Matching Game	Trim a Tree	Christmas MahJong
	What is Different Puzzle	Santa Email	Decorate the Snowman
	Santa Letter	Send an email to the North Pole	Decorate the Tree
	Santa and Rudolph Slide Puzzle	Christmas Tic-Tac-Toe	Find the Christmas Pairs
	Count the Penguins	Count the Snowflakes	Dress the Snowman
	The Holiday Spot Christmas Games	The Elves' Game Chest Check out the Christmas time and money games on this site!	Build a Snowman
	Santa's Village Games	Merry Christmas Games