Merry Christmas
From St. Mary's School
This page was updated on November 29, 2009
| This Christmas links Page is part of the St. Mary's School web page. Created by Cathy-Dee Brand, I hope you enjoy this page and take time to look through the rest of our site. Just click on the Reindeer Crossing Button on the bottom of the page or our school's name to go to the main page of our site. You may want to check out our Winter links section and Links for Teachers too. | ||||
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| General Christmas These sites fit into more than one category. | Stories & Poems
| Crafts & Art
| Activity and Colouring Pages
| Music
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| Christmas Clip Art
| Christmas Concert Ideas | Themes and Lesson Plans Christmas Traditions, The Wild Christmas Reindeer, Christmas Trees & More | Christmas Fun For Everyone Fun, fun, fun, from poems to emails to tracking Santa! | Religious & Traditional |
| Kwanzaa
| Hanukkah
| Christmas Around the World
| Christmas in Canada
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| Sites Just for KIDS
| Sites Just for PARENTS Toy Reviews & More | Recipes
| Gingerbread
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| How Christmas Works | A guide to Christmas traditions - kid friendly and loaded with good information. You can also print out the information to use in your classroom. |
| Christmas on the Web | This site has quite a bit packed into it. Historic information, listen to people from around the world say Merry Christmas in their own language, listen to music, send email cards, print colouring pages, and more. |
| Reader's Digest Christmas | Gift ideas, decorating tips, email cards and many other ideas to help you celebrate your Christmas season. |
| Greg's Christmas Place | Check out the portable music machine, plus stories, games and puzzles, gift ideas, humor, web-rings and a lot more. Great graphics as well. |
| Hummingbird Educational Resources | There's quite a bit here especially for primary grades. Songs, poems, craft ideas, lesson ideas and more. |
| Christmas Freebies | The name says it all. Check out all the links to free Christmas things from screensavers to clipart to catalogues to gifts and more! |
| Koala's Christmas | This site (another great Australian site) has a lot to offer. Kept up-to-date, it features links in a multitude of sections including recipes, downloads, games, crafts, graphics and more. |
| Central Christmas Corner | Although the site seems to be designed for kids, younger children will need an adults help to navigate the site. There is quite a bit on the site including crafts, colouring pages, emails and more. |
| ChildFun Family Webpage | Lots of crafts, activities and more to help you celebrate Christmas. |
| Merry Christmas.com | This site has sections for recipes, stories, games, colouring sheets and more! |
| A Victorian Christmas | This site offers pictures, links and ideas on how you can make your Christmas become a Victorian Christmas. |
| Mrs. McGowan's First Grade | This site has a number of good links and a few interesting activities including one called Snowman Soup. |
| Family Fun | Crafts, activity pages, recipes, advice on the holidays and more! |
| SantaLand | This site takes us back in history to why we have bells at Christmas, what is the history behind ornament and so much more! |
| The History Channel | Take a look at the history of Christmas as well as other sections on Christmas trees and Christmas around the world. They also have videos on Christmas you can watch. |
| Floral Craft Resource | This page has a lot of links to neat decorating ideas for Christmas. What I liked about the site is the little pictures that show the project so you know which links you might want to check out. Plus it has a lot of links to good information on floral arrangements and crafts. |
| Kaboose Family Network | A fairly large collection of on-line Christmas stories you can read. |
| Holiday Fall and Winter Poetry | Poems featuring the winter season, Christmas and other Autumn and Winter holidays. |
| Wacky Anne's Christmas Home | Don't let the title fool you, this is a well done site with lots of information and areas. Just click on the library to enter a section with links to over 100 Christmas stories. |
| CanTeach | This Canadian site has some nice poems suitable for the primary grades. |
| Children's Literature Web Guide | A collection of on-line Christmas stories |
| The Baker's Dozen | A Reader's Theatre story about St. Nicholas retold by Aaron Shepherd. |
| Christmas Poems | A collection of poems for Christmas and winter. Many are geared for adults, but some are great for students too. A few nice classic poems as well. |
| Teaching is a Work of Heart | A collection of literature units for such books as The Polar Express, The Wild Christmas Reindeer, The Mitten, penguins, reindeers and more. |
| Early Literature Poems | A nice collection of poems, some done to common tunes for the younger students. |
| A Colonial Christmas | A lesson plan about how Christmas was celebrated during Colonial times. |
| A Colonial Christmas | A fact sheet about how Christmas was celebrated during Colonial times. |
| Christmas Tree Lesson Plan | A neat lesson on the history of the Christmas Tree |
| The Wild Christmas Reindeer | A short lesson plan, but don't forget to click on the home button at the bottom of each page and check out all of Jan Brett's site. There are other activities on other pages for this theme, a couple which I've included here as well. |
| Reindeer Theme | Primarily crafts featuring reindeer, but also some book suggestions and other tips to help you plan a fun theme around reindeers. |
| Teaching is a Work of Heart - Reindeer Theme | This site has ideas for The Wild Christmas Reindeer and Rudolph. |
| Christmas Goodies For Teachers | A collection of unit plans for most elementary grades. |
| Education World - December Days | Ten activities to celebrate a month of special days. A great site for schools and teachers with a wide variety of ethnic students. Ideas for Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Christmas, The Nutcracker, Beethoven's Birthday, Winter Solstice and more! |
| ABC Teach | This site has many great ideas from story starters to writing ideas to poetry. Book shapes, similies, math books and more! A terrific teacher resource! |
| Teacher Vision | A number of printables, literature connections, art ideas and more on Christmas. |
| 123 Child - Activity Idea Place | Ideas for art, math, music and other subjects great for primary students. |
| Real Trees 4 Kids | This site is linked to the National Christmas tree association and has unit plans for elementary as well as secondary grades. The lessons look at life cycles, forestry, as well as sections on crafts and more. |
| St. Nicholas Center | A unique site with the history of St. Nicholas |
| Christmas Math Worksheets | A collection of a few math worksheets that are Christmas themed. |
| DLTK's Christmas Crafts | Some simple craft ideas great for Pre K to grade 1 students |
| Kaboose Family Network | A number of nice crafts plus some other activities too. |
| Crafts for Kids - About.com | Everything from advent calendars to Santa Claus. A great site! |
| Makestuff.com | Over 50 interesting crafts for Christmas. Many of the crafts can be made with recyclable materials or materials found around the home or classroom. Some of the more unique crafts are, lightbulb snowman, jigsaw puzzle pieces wreath, Christmas candy topiary, and candy cane mice. |
| Making Friends.com | This site features crafts and gifts both children and adults can make. There are free patterns and instructions. Many of the crafts also have a picture so it's easy to visualize what the final project should look like. |
| ChildFun | Check their list of articles for a number of articles on different types of crafts you can do for Christmas. |
| All About Jesus | A nice collection of links to craft sites, for both children and adults. |
| HP - Seasonal Activities | Some nice templates and designs by HP for the holiday season. From letterhead to pop-up cards and more.. |
| Amazing Mom's | The first two sections on this site are for crafts and gifts kid's can make. |
| Christmas Activities | A few nice craft ideas are listed. This site does have pop-up ads on most pages. |
| Crayola.com | Crayola has a wonderful site with great crafts and ideas. You need to register to visit all the sections but it is free. Check out their arts and crafts section for some really unique Christmas crafts. |
| Christmas Time Together | This site has quite a few neat crafts including murals, ice candles, and much more! |
| Teachervision | Some fun art activities for Christmas and winter. |
| All Free Crafts | A large selection of crafts in many themes. Some of the crafts are focused on using recyclable materials. |
| Kinderart | This site is one of the best art sites for Grades K to 6. Many of the projects include a photo so you can see what the finished product can look like. |
| DLTK's Colouring pages | Well done colouring pages. |
| Christmas Trolls | A very nice colouring page by Jan Brett |
| Hedgie decorates the Christmas Tree | An adorable colouring page by Jan Brett |
| Hedgie makes Christmas Cookies | Such a cute baker! |
| Kaboose Family Network | Colouring pages, mazes and other activity pages plus some really great links to other sites |
| Email Santa | A great site for kids to use for email letters to Santa or even emailing a letter from their pet. Fun games and other activities make this a site worth using in your classroom. |
| Email Santa Colouring Pages | This is another section of the above site which has some nice colouring pages you can download to print. |
| Blackdog's Christmas | Check here for on-line games for your students, colouring pages and other activity pages as well. |
| Tammy's Tidbits | A fun activity with calendars. This is a gift idea you can do with your students for Christmas. The activity is making a calendar for the fridge, there are calendar pages you can print out, etc., so everything you need is right on this site. |
| Ed Helper | Christmas math sheets, word searches, crossword puzzles, scrambled words and more. Quite a few to select from. For most sheets you do have to purchase a membership. |
| Christmas Colouring Pages | 48 nice colouring pages. |
| Christmas Activities | A few nice colouring pages - the site does have pop-up ads on most pages. |
| All About Colouring | 100 different colouring pages to choose from. |
| St. Nicholas Center | 15 very unique colouring pictures of St. Nicholas |
| Worksheets 4 Teachers | This pdf file has 40 pages of worksheets for you to use in the classroom. From crossword puzzles to word searches; from mystery codes to scrambled words. This site has great materials for grades 2 to 5. |
| Kidszone - Math pages | This is a really cool site! There are math activity pages for grades K to 5 with a Christmas theme. When you click on most work-pages you can then click on generate new sheet to change the questions. |
| Kaboose Family Network | A nice selection of midi files you can listen to and download. Some lyrics for a few songs as well. |
| This Day in Music History | This site changes each day with happenings in the music world from birthdays to broadway shows to the top songs on the charts. |
| Noel, Noel, Noel | From sheet music to lyrics and midis, this site has a lot to offer. |
| Skinnerville Presents | This is a great lyric page for Christmas carols. |
| New! Venonza Records - O Holy Night | Venonza Records has this free recording you can also download of O Holy Night. It is a very nice rendition of the song. |
| DLTK - Christmas around the world play | A cute play that features songs from different countries |
| Rainbow Horizons | Four plays you can purchase. These seem to be developed for school concerts and focuses on grades K to 8 |
| Christmas Concert Ideas | These are a series of books (Alberta Produced) by Denise Gagne. Some of the books have skit or concert ideas, others have CD's with music. |
| Santa Scenes | A set of four Christmas plays that are designed in such a way that you can choose your own music to fit between the scenes. The idea behind the plays is to allow for flexibility by being able to use the plays with or without music. The plays were written by an elementary music teacher and can work with all grades. The cost for the plays seems reasonable as well. |
| Another idea for concerts is to purchase a split-track CD or Performance Track. You can do a search on-line by typing split-track CD Christmas Children and you will get a lot of hits. Most Christian bookstores or music stores will also carry a variety of these CD's. Split track means that the CD is recorded so that by simply changing the balance to the speakers you can fade out the voices on the CD so you only have instruments. | |
| Kaboose Family Network | Games, jokes and activities, a very fun site to visit. |
| Billy Bear's Christmas | Online games, email cards, crafts and other fun things to do! |
| Email Santa | Email a letter to Santa from yourself and even from your pets! Play some games, read jokes or colour some pictures too. |
| 12 Days Christmas Village | Click on different parts of the village to take you to areas where you can email Santa, read stories, play games and more! |
| Blackdog's Christmas | There is so much to do on this site!!!! Puzzles, colouring pages, crossword puzzles, games, mazes, story writing and more! |
| Primary Games | Play some fun online games, print out some stationary, make some Christmas cards or send an email. |
| A Kid's Heart Christmas | Some fun java games you can play. |
| Bethany Robert's Christmas Fun | Stories, games, mazes and more! |
| Decorate a Christmas Tree | Decorate a Christmas tree in one of several different rooms. |
| St. Nicholas Center | Games, colouring sheets and more all about St. Nicholas!!!! |
| Dr. Toy's Guide on the Internet | Over 1500 reviews of toys. Use these reviews to give you a clearer picture of which are better for your child. |
| Billy Bear's Christmas | A neat family craft idea - making hanging family frames for your Christmas tree. |
| Email Santa | A great site for your kids! |
| Home & Garden | A great site for decorating ideas, baking and celebrating the holidays with your family. The site changes with the seasons. |
| Family Fun | This website has many wonderful sections. This link takes you to their page on ways to have holiday fun with your children. |
| Holiday Traditions | Information for a number of countries as well as recipes. |
| Education World | A lesson plan for doing a theme on Christmas around the World. Some good ideas plus good links too. |
| Kaboose Family Network | Good information that both teachers and students can use. |
| All About Jesus | This section has information on several countries around the world. Written in kid's language, a nice page to use in class. |
| DLTK - Christmas Around the World Play | A cute play that features songs from different countries. |
| Okaloosa School District | This link takes you to a project page written by teachers in this school division. It's a complete lesson plan incorporating technology into a study about Christmas Around the World. |
| How is Christmas Celebrated | This web page is teacher-created and features a worksheet plus sites that students can use to do the worksheet on their own. |
| Why Christmas | This page has a number of sections, the one on cultures offers information on a few countries and how they celebrate Christmas. |
| Bill Egan's Christmas World | Bill Egan is a Christmas Historian and from the country links I looked at, there is very good information on customs followed in the countries. Quite a few countries are covered. |
| Saint Nicholas Center | This site has some really great pages of information on Christmas traditions around the world. |
| Santa's Net | This site has short write-ups on Christmas in over 70 countries. |
| In Alberta grade 3 students study the following four countries as part of their social studies curriculum. | |
| Christmas in Ukraine | Link 1; Link 2; Link 3; Link 4; Link 5 |
| Christmas in Peru | Link 1; Link 2; Link 3; Link 4 |
| Christmas and Ramadan in Tunisia | Link 1; Link 2; Link 3 |
| Christmas in India | Link 1; Link 2; Link 3; Link 4 |
| Kaboose Family Network | This site features information on both the French and English traditions as well as our more current traditions. There is also information on the Boston Christmas Tree Tradition. |
| Why Christmas | This page has a number of sections, the one on cultures offers information on a few countries and how they celebrate Christmas. In this section they have a section on Canada and offer information on things like mummering, the Boston Christmas Tree exchange and other less known Christmas traditions in Canada. |
| Virtual Museum of Canada | Christmas traditions in France and Canada. A large population of Canadians have their roots in France. Many of the Christmas celebrations were brought over from France when our first settlers and traders arrived. This site offers some good links and information on these traditions. |
| Santas.Net | A brief description of some of the traditions in different areas in Canada. |
| Canada's First Christmas | A look at how the first Christmas in Canada was celebrated. |
| Everything about Kwanzaa | Information about the holiday, some of its traditions and how to prepare for it. |
| What is Kwanzaa? | Information on the history, rituals and colours of Kwanzaa. A good links section as well. |
| Teacher Vision | A number of printables, activities and information on learning about and celebrating Kwanzaa. You may get an advertising page just click on the words go directly to the link which is usually found near the top of the advertising page. |
| Torah Tots | Chanukah Colouring pictures, games and activities and the story of Chanukah |
| Welcome to the world of HanuKat | A fun way to teach about Hanukkah to both Jewish and non-Jewish children. With colouring and activity pages, stories, recipes and songs, you'll be sure to find interesting things to do! |
| Hanukkah - Festival of Lights | An informational site that is well done. Nice pictures as well. |
| Chanukah on the Net | This site has stories, colouring pages, crafts and recipes. It also features music files, email cards and gift ideas. |
| Education World | A lesson plan about Hanukkah |
| Jan Brett's Colouring Pages | Hedgie plays driedel - a cute page for Hanukkah |
| 123 Greetings | Some nice email cards for Hanukkah |
| A recipe for Sufganiyot | This recipe is written so that an adult and a child can make the recipe together. |
| Teacher Vision | A number of printables, lesson ideas, art, etc., to help learn about and celebrate Hanukkah. You may get an advertising page just click on the words go directly to the link which is usually found near the top of the advertising page |
| Kaboose Family Network - Chanukah | Games, clip-art, mazes, art ideas, links and more! |
| Preschool Education | A number of songs for younger children all about Hanukkah. |
| Blackdog Net | Games, activities, screensaver and more! |
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| Annie's Christmas page | A delightful page filled with quotes, history and great graphics. |
| A Joyful Heart | This site features stories and articles that are Christian based. As well there are on-line Bible Studies too. |
| Christmas in Cyberspace | This site is dedicated to sharing the gospel and the history and truth behind Christmas. The site features mainly links to other sites that are Christian based. |
| Religious Christmas.com | This email card site has selections of email cards that are Christian as well as those that are secular. |
| EasyFunSchool - Christmas Symbols | This over 40 page pdf lesson plan is filled with many ideas on celebrating advent. |
| Audrey's Christmas Page | This site has a lot of links for advent ideas and more. |
| Santa's Net | A nice collection of recipes from around the world |
| Kaboose Family Network | A wonderful collection of popular recipes, some which can be used for gifts or classroom cooking as well. |
| Reader's Digest | Over 100 wonderful recipes including these favorites, Sugarplums, Pear Chutney, Classic Roast Turkey, and Peanut Brittle. |
| Wacky Anne's Christmas Home | Quite a few areas on this site including an excellent section of Christmas recipes! |
| Need a recipe - Call Mom | Some great recipes for gifts, gingerbread houses, edible ornaments plus check out the link to the next page for Christmas Cookies. |
| All About Jesus | A nice collection of links to sites with recipes. |
| Canadian Parents - Canada Cooks | A wonderful collection of fun recipes for Christmas and other Winter Holidays. It looks like this site changes for the seasons so keep a watch for it's Christmas page. However even now it offers some great recipes and other ideas. |
| All Free Christmas Fun | Although this site has a few colouring pictures and email cards, the recipe section has quite a few really nice recipes for salads, cookies, candies and more. |
| Hershey's Kitchen | A great site with hundreds of recipes for the Christmas Season. This site also changes with the holidays and seasons. |
| Red & Yellow's Bright Ideas | Come and see all the fun recipes those M & M guys have in store for you. |
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