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It's time for Diwali!
October 22nd - October 26th, 2022
The five days of the 2022
festival
: October 22- 26th 2022
Scroll on down for Diwali Games!
This is a diya/deepa,
an Indian festival lamp:
Avali means
a row of something: Lamps!
Diya + avali = Diwali!
All about Diwali from Nat Geo Kids
Wonderful photos and information (keep scrolling down!) about the Diwali holiday.
The Five Days of Diwali
Most of the above is from Nat Geo Kids
- Most of what's below is from everywhere!
Diwali Games and Activities! A whole bunch of Diwali goodies!
more about Diwali from NatGeo kids
The US Senate officially recognized Diwali, the Festival
of Lights,
unanimously passing Senate Resolution 299 on November 14th 2007. :)
Diwali from
ActivityVillage Colouring, printables, puzzles, crafts, a dance lesson,
more!
Diwali
Activities and Games from KidsGen has a lot of activities and
some crafts, also easy home games.
Diwali Activities from Pinterest. Tons of pages on one page! Enough
said.
Diwali Lesson Plans & Games for Kids from Mr. Donn. Yes, lesson
plans!
A list of links, and recipes, too. Also clip art.
Diwali
Activities for kids and teachers from kiddyhouse - with lesson
plans.
Explains Diwali, has traditional recipes for different days; arts
and crafts let
kids try rangoli art (About Rangoli, rangoli designs, and how to make a
rangoli),
hennaed hands and feet (mendi) online. Also stories (A simplified excerpt
from
the Ramayana), art, crafts, clipart, and lesson plans.
Diwali Games from FunMunch. Flashy and loud online games.
Until next year - Subh Diwali!
Halloween Game Sites!
These have lots of online games, dressups, some art, some printouts, songs
to sing, etc., for kids' fun!
Halloween Hangout Get costume ideas, play games, check out cool photo galleries, watch spooky videos, get jack-o'-lantern carving tips, and more!
Nine Halloween games from ABCya! The games are: Make a Pumpkin, Pumpkin Carving, Pumpkin Matching, Halloween Word Search, Halloween Crossword Puzzle, Ghost Typing, Letter Match uppercase/lowercase, Cute Puzzle Witch, and Scary Path.
50 Halloween Craft Ideas For Preschool from No Time for Flashcards Crafty stuff for the younger set. Includes some math activities.
600+ Free Halloween Fonts from little kid scary to adult scary, here are 440 fonts, free for you to download. Adults, 1 or 2 may have inappopriate words, so preview them first.
Halloween from Activity Village Printables, colouring, crafts, costume ideas, and more.
Halloween from GirlsGoGames A lot of games with links to even more!
Halloween Math Activities for Kids from No Time for Flashcards A list of fun and crafty hands-on math activities for the littler kids, full of manipulatives. There are more at the bottom of the page under More Fun & Learning.
Halloween Music & Songs by Preschool Education Over 90 poems and songs for Halloween, with lyrics. This site also has fall themes, pages for other holidays, coloring pages, crafts, and plenty of other pre-K things.
Halloween Songs
for Kids from Perpetual
Preschool
"We have over 200 Halloween songs, chants, and fingerplays
for toddlers, preschoolers, and elementary-aged children."
13 pages of them!
Halloween Songs, Poems, and Fingerplays by Pre-K Fun. 16 songs and poems for little ones to sing along, act out, finger play, get craftsy with, and whatever else your creativity finds to do with them. Includes all the lyrics. Pre-K Fun looks like a site worth several visits.
Halloween Songs and Activities for Calendar Time We found this page at Fantastic Fun and Learning, where there are hundreds of activities, crafts, songs, movement, dances, arty things, ideas, and many links; all pre-K and K related. They, in turn, got these from similar sites. Very, very nice. Check out the Skeleton Dance!
Preschool Halloween Songs and Music from Everything Preschool. "Our Preschool Halloween Songs and Music contains the most complete Early Childhood Education Halloween Songs and Music Ideas on the internet." Has lyrics for twelve Halloween songs. This site also has Halloween crafts, games, preschool science (counting and crafts), five printable coloring pages, lots of well organized recipes for gross Halloween stuff, and bulletin board activities. Everything Preschool also has lesson plans and themes for teacher's use. "Our site contains Over 30,000 Preschool Education Activities Separated into over 100 Themes, 26 Alphabet Areas, & Lesson Plans."
Hellokids.com
"is amongst the best websites for kids' activities. We offer you coloring
pages
that you can either print or do online, drawings and drawing lessons,
various craft activities for
children of all ages, videos, games, songs and even wonderful readings
for bedtime."
In the old days, the holiday was spelled "Hallowe'en"
Saint Patrick's Day!
St. Patrick's Day
Games from A Kid's Heart
St. Patrick's Day Activities & Games from Apples 4 the Teacher has coloring, puzzles, a memory game, and lots of printables including fairy tales.
Saint Patrick's Day Activities from DLTK. Cards, coloring, crafts, games, poems, printables, recipes, worksheets, and links!
Saint Patrick's Day Activities from Squigly's Playhouse. Includes several arcade games, matching, word games, puzzles, and coloring pages.
St. Patrick's Day Craft Party! Step by step with photos Making crafts for the holiday followed by a treasure hunt around the house and yard to find clue cards. Easy to adapt to a classroom.
St. Patrick's Day Games from Primary Games. They have plenty of fun games, and coloring pages, too.
HAPPY EASTER!
30+ Easter Egg Decorating Ideas from A
Pumpkin and a Princess.
Dyed
Minion Easter Eggs An egg-decorating tutorial from
A Pumpkin and a Princess that walks you through the steps.
Easter Activities, Crafts, and Games from Apples 4 the Teacher. Poems, puzzles, coloring, crafts, recipes, printables, worksheets, and more.
Easter Activities from DLTK. Cards, coloring, crafts, dyeing easter eggs, games, poems, printables, recipes, worksheets, and links!
Easter Craft
- Easter projects for all ages. A part of Kidfolio.
53 pins of various projects with differing levels of difficulty and media.
Plenty of egg projects included.
Easter Fun from Squigly's Playhouse. Includes 21 arcade games, matching, word games, puzzles, and coloring.
Easter Games from Primary Games. Over 15 games plus puzzles and coloring!
Interactive Easter Game eCards from Blue Mountain. 19 free interactive little fun games for kids, from the Blue Mountain greeting cards people. They emailed us about their games! Thanks!
Printable
Easter Coloring Pages from sheknows
has 20 different pages for children to color. It is easier to Save these and
then print your saved copies. The younger kids love to color these.
Top 10 Easter Crafts for Kids from Craftulate. A nice list, with photos and directions, of 10 craftsy things little fingers can make for Easter.
Click to scroll down to "regular" Christmas links
or just scroll on down!
Wishing you a happy Yule and a bright solstice!
Sunday, December 5th is
Krampus Night!
Krampusnacht
Click on either picture to watch a NarGeo video about the Krampus
December 13 is Lucia
Day
Rick Steves' European Christmas: Norway
"December 13th was also the Winter Solstice, the shortest
day of the year, in the old
'Julian' Calendar and a pagan festival of lights in Sweden was turned into
St. Lucia's Day".
Chanukah (Hanukkah)
Chanukah (Hanukkah, the Jewish festival of rededication) for
Hebrew Year 5783
begins at sundown on Sunday, December 18, 2022 and ends at nightfall on Monday,
26 December 2022. Chanukah is the Jewish eight-day, wintertime “festival
of lights,”
celebrated with a nightly menorah lighting, special prayers and fried foods
source = chabad.org
Hannukah a video
by Miyam Bialik, PhD. and TV star! Humourous and accurate!
How
to Light the Menorah (Do it right!)
Want to know more? Go to Chabad.org
Everything about Chanukah basics, history, customs, ceremonies, recipes, kids
games.
Hanukkah (links to a site)
26 More Easy Christmas Ornaments for Toddlers and Preschoolers from Happy Hooligans. "26 MORE easy Christmas ornaments that are quick to set up and simple to do! All of the homemade ornaments in this collection are perfect for last minute Christmas crafting sessions, and if your kids like to give hand-made goodies to friends and relatives, these make terrific little gift and gift-toppers."
150
Christmas Crafts for Kids to Do has a variety of kid-friendly craft projects.
Different levels of difficulty for different age and ability levels.
Christmas in the Middle Ages "This feature looks at the origins of Christmas and how it was celebrated in the Middle Ages. It includes links to articles related to this topic." Three short videos discuss Origins, What went on at Christmas, Christmas Plays, Christmas Carols. Each has a short text of the same name. Excellent videos! There's also a section about Christmas trees, and some good links at the end.
Crystallized Icicle Ornaments with Borax
-
Make
shimmering crystallized icicle ornaments with
pipe cleaners, Borax and water! It's a classic science
experiment and a Christmas craft all in one! From
Happy Hooligans,
"Crafts and Activities for Toddlers and Preschoolers".
Check out the Naughty or Nice list at Claus.com!
Christmas from GirlsGoGames Lots of games with links to even more!
Christmas
from Primary Games including the awesome
sugar,
sugar
What else needs saying? It's Primary Games, so
you know they'll have
TONS of games and plenty of other things to see and do.
Christmas
& New Years from Squigly's Playhouse.
Online games, pictures, crafts, puzzles.
Christmas Around
the World - Christmas Cultures from whychristmas.com.
"Find out about Christmas Traditions around the world and how Christmas
is celebrated in different countries and cultures." There's a list of
60 countries to click on!
December
Holidays section of Appless4theTeacher.
This covers classroom activities and games for:
Hanukkah,
Winter, Christmas
Fun, Religious
Christmas, Kwanzaa,
and New
Year's. Good collection in one place.
Merry-Christmas online games selection.
North Pole Excellent site, many sections, Elf Academy has good games for making change and telling time.
Santa Claus
Animation Station "Santa Claus Christmas Website
for Kids. Celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa with SANTA CLAUS, Elves and
Reindeer. An Animated, Interactive, FREE North Pole Christmas Tradition Since
1996!" Animations, videos, songs, and more games that you can shake a
stick at! Where else can you watch Santa
play beach volleyball?
New in 2020: Free Santa
Claus Games NOT Flash games. Playable on all devices!
Six
White Boomers - a unique Santa
song from Australia!
(with lyrics)
Listen
to the song here!
Click on the pic to see Santa dancing at a powwow (video)!
.
A "drum" is a team of drummers
who play at powwows. Powwows.com once
had a
list of 1,432 drums from all over North America. Much like rock bands, some
drums
constantly change people and names; others go on for years just adding younger
family members. There are two main styles: Northern and Southern.
For more information, Powwows.com is
a good place to start.
In the Philippines, it's called Panunulúyan!
Celebrating the Nativity, Dec 16 -24. December
24th, Christmas Eve, is
called Nochebuena in
Mexico.
So let Mary and Joseph in and bust those piñatas, kiddos!
Celebrating
Christmas with 13 trolls
"The Icelandic Christmas period is an intriguing mixture
of religious practice and traditional folklore, beginning
on 23 December and ending on Epiphany, 6 January.
As many countries do, Iceland celebrates Chrismas
mostly with good food and gifts to loved ones, but
unlike most countries that have a single
Father Christmas / Santa Claus character, Icelandic
children are fortunate enough to be visited by
13 Yule Lads. Other Christmas stories are rather bleak
in nature, perhaps reflecting the harshness of winter and
the isolation of the community in previous centuries."
Thanksgiving Games Sites
15 Terrific Turkey
Crafts A list of 15 turkey activities for little
hands, collected from around the web by
Simply Today
Ingredients are common craftsy and household items. Victoria says: "Thanksgiving
is just right around the
corner and one of the best things are the fun Terrific Turkey Crafts that
the kiddos are able to share with family members. I love hanging my girls
fall art work on our walls to show our family friends their creativity.
Check out some of the fun turkey crafts below for some inspiration this
Thanksgiving!"
Hellokids.com "is
amongst the best websites for kids' activities. We offer you coloring pages
that you can either print or do online, drawings and drawing lessons, various
craft activities for
children of all ages, videos, games, songs and even wonderful readings for
bedtime."
Native American Activities from apples4theteacher.
Squigly's Thanksgiving activities and games
Thanksgiving Activities and Games for Kids from apples4theteacher.
Thanksgiving Games from Primary Games 20+ games, 6 coloring pages, more.
Thanksgiving Word Search and three more activities from ABCya!
Valentine's
Day! 
Valentine's Day Candy Puzzle for K-1's from ABCya! Fun little 1:1 correspondence game, put the candy back in the box. It talks, too.
Valentine's
Day Crafts from Activity Village This well known British site has over
50 activities, a long list of Printables,
and a large collection of
original Valentine's Day colouring pages and cards! Serving your online
needs since 2000!
Valentine's Day Games for Girls from from GirlsGoGames Two pages of games with links to even more!
Valentine's Day Games from Primary Games. A dozen online games and puzzles.
Valentine's Day Games from Apples 4 the Teacher. Nine online games including a Titanic dressup game and The Scared Groom game.
Valentine's Day Activities from DLTK. Cards, coloring, crafts, games, poems, printables, recipes, worksheets, and links!
Valentine's Day Activities from Squigley's Playhouse. Printables, online games, crafts, coloring, matching, lots more.
Kids'
Arts & Crafts - Valentine's Day A good Pinterest page on the subject.
If you want new ideas, you can always check Pinterest. There is something
on this page for everyone.
Kids, I am bored! Let's play games!
Chanukah Games including Dreidel Spin
Dreidel - music video by Jewish a cappella group Shir Soul
Basics - What is Chanukah?
How To - light menorahs, play dreidel, recipes, more
Credit for most of this = Chabad.org
Things to make on St. Lucia's Day from makinglearningfun.com
Read about St. Lucia's Day in Sweden from whychristmas.com
In the Philippines, it's called Panunulúyan!
Celebrating the Nativity, Dec 16 -24.
So let Mary and Joseph in and bust those piñatas, kiddos! Various piñata designs
Cinco de Mayo from Apples4theteacher
Cinco de Mayo Activities for the Classroom - Unit of Study. Games, Coloring Pages, Crafts for Kids, Word Searches
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