Holidays

Update 6-8-16

Greeting Cards

1. Big Huge Labs
2. Buncee
3. Canva
4. PicMonkey holiday cards
5. Storyboard That!

Christmas

1. 12 Days of Christmas
2. Christmas puzzles and games
3. Christmas—history—fun video
4. Gift Hunt–updated version of 12 Days of Christmas–just as much fun
5. Holiday collection
   

   

6. Holiday Crossword
7. Holiday Elf Games
8. Holiday Hangman II
9. Holiday music II–sing along with the music–the site provides the words
10. Holiday—Design Gingerbread House
11. Holiday—find the word
12. Holiday—Math Facts
13. Holiday—North Pole Academy
14. Holidays around the world
15. Holidays–various
16. Penguin Show
17. Phone call from Santa
18. Santa Tracker

Earth Day

1. Breathing earth– the environment
2. Breathing Earth YouTube Video–of CO2 use, population changes, and more
3. Conservation Game
4. Earth Day—NASA Ocean Currents
5. Earth Day Printables
6. Eco-friendly house
7. Ecotourism Simulation–for grades 4 and above
8. EekoWorld
9. Electrocity
10. Footprint calculator
11. History of Earth Day–lots of reading
12. Michael Michael Go Recycle
13. My Garbology
14. Starfall — Every Day is Earth Day
15. Storyboard That! Earth Day lesson plans

Easter

1. Easter color-me (for Kindergarten/first grade)
2. Easter Color Me to print or import to drawing program
3. Easter games II
4. Easter games III
5. Easter games IV
6. Easter poems and songs (to play online)
7. Easter Puppies–video
8. Easter puzzles and games
9. Easter songs for kids
10. Easter story--the Easter Egg–video
11. Easter Word hunt (Starfall)

Groundhog Day

1. Groundhog Day Games

Halloween

1. Ben & Jerry
2. Billy Bear’s
3. Carving Pumpkins
4. Enchanted Learning
5. Halloween games, puzzles–clean, easy to understand website and few ads!
6. Halloween ghost stories
7. Meddybemps Spooky
8. Pumpkin Toss
9. Signing Halloween–a video
10. Skelton Park
11. The Kidz Page

Hannukkah

1. Puzzles and games from Digipuzzle

July 4th

1. Bet You Didn’t Know (video)
2. Constitution Facts
3. Group activity
4. History of July 4th
5. Independence Day around the world
6. July 4th videos
7. July 4th vocabulary activities
8. Teacher Resources

Kwanzaa

1. Kwanzaa games and puzzles

Martin Luther King Day

1. 2 lesson plans

Memorial Day

1. Folding the American flag
2. In Flanders Field--poem
3. Memorial Day Messages, Speeches, Oaths, Poems, Anthems, and images
4. Memorial Day Poems
5. Memorial Day Poetry–poems
6. Memorial Day Prayer
7. Memorial Day puzzle I
8. Memorial Day Puzzle II
9. Memorial Day DigitPuzzle
10. Memorial Day Quiz
11. Memorial Day Word Search
12. Primary source recollections of War
13. Quotes about Memorial Day/Wars
14. Who you are remembering–Americans killed in action

Mother’s Day

• Mother’s Day activities

Pi Day

1. Find your Pi Day--where is your birthday in the endless numbers of Pi? Created by Wolfram
2. Music created with Pi — addictive song
3. Pi Day WebQuest

President’s Day

1. Activities
2. Background
3. BrainPop President videos
4. Games and online activities
5. Google explores Presidents–their lives, homes, pets
6. History and background
7. Learn about each President
8. More activities
9. President for a Day!
10. President Lincoln interactive iBook
11. President videos–60-second videos as introductions to different historical figures
12. Songs
13. Webquest

Spring

1. Life Cycle I
2. Life Cycle II
3. Spring Games
4. Spring Games II
5. Spring Garden–click to find flowers
6. Spring Word Search
7. Spring Word Scramble

St. Patrick’s Day

1. Color the shamrock
2. Color the Pot-o-gold
3. Color the leprechaun
4. Puzzle–St. Pat’s Puzzle
5. Puzzle–St. Pat’s puzzle II
6. Puzzle–St. Pat’s drag-and-drop puzzle
7. Puzzle–St. Pat’s slide puzzle
8. Puzzles and games
9. St. Pat’s math
10. St. Patrick’s Day history–video
11. St. Pat’s Day songs–video
12. Tic tac toe
13. Webquest for St. Patrick’s Day I
14. Webquest II
15. Wordsearch

Summer

1. Puzzles

Thanksgiving

1. Canadian Thanksgiving
2. Online/Offline Thanksgiving activities
3. Plimoth Plantation–a field trip of a Pilgrim’s life. Included on this real-life site is a video of the Pilgrim’s crossing to the New World.
4. Starfall–Silly Turkey
5. Thanksgiving edu-websites–CybraryMan
6. Thanksgiving Games
7. Thanksgiving games and puzzles
8. Thanksgiving games–Quia
9. Thanksgiving information–history, more
10. Thanksgiving Jigsaw
11. Thanksgiving Jigsaw II
12. Thanksgiving Lesson Plans
13. Thanksgiving Tic-tac-toe
14. Thanksgiving video–Brainpop
15. Thanksgiving Wordsearch
16. The First Thanksgiving

Valentines

1. Dress up the heart
2. ‘I love you’ in languages Afrikaans to Zulu
3. Line up the hearts
4. Valentine games and puzzles
5. Valentine Day games and stories
6. Valentine Day poem generator
7. Valentine drag-and-drop
8. Valentine match
9. Valentine mouse skills
10. Valentine projects from Winter Wonderland
11. Valentine puppy jigsaw
12. Valentine rebus game
13. Valentine rebuses
14. Valentine Sudoku
15. Valentine tic-tac-toe
16. Valentine typing
17. Valentine unscramble
18. Valentine’s Day apps
19. Write in a heart

Click for 16 Holiday Lesson Plans (each adaptable to multiple holidays)