Tag Archives: Christmas

Graham Cracker Gingerbread Houses

Want to create your own gingerbread house but don’t want the mess? Here’s a way! Continue reading →

Santa Answers All

The wonderful world of Santa Claus with lots of Christmas games and activities, an advent calendar, tales and stories, coloring pages and crafts. Web Links Track SantaCount down to Christmas and watch as Santa wends his way around the world. … Continue reading →

Holiday High-rise

Frankie is excited about a local Kwanzaa celebration. Watch this cartoon for kids as he talks with his friend Lee, about this African-American and Pan-African celebration and questions like is it an African Christmas, where did Kwanzaa come from and … Continue reading →

Holiday How to Draw

Why not make your own Christmas cards? Kid Scoop’s own Jeff Schinkel has a whole series of step-by-step guides to drawing Christmas characters. Continue reading →

Snowman Puzzles

Don’t let your students’ brains hibernate during the winter break. Enjoy this week’s Kid Scoop page with brain-bending puzzles and games. Continue reading →

Christmas Recipes for Kids

The BBC’s goodfood website has a wonderful selection of 66 recipes for you to make and for your kids to help participate and decorate. Each recipe shows the time they take to make, the level of difficulty, some show the … Continue reading →

Christmas Tree from Recycled Fabric

From a site called Fireflies & Mud Pies comes a great way to make a Christmas tree ornament with your children using ribbon or scraps of fabric. It could also help them learn how to tie knots for their shoe … Continue reading →

Christmas Tree Brownies

From Kidspot Kitchen comes a video showing an easy-to-make recipe for brownies in a round tin. Cut them into triangular tree shapes, apply green buttercream frosting and then decorate to make them look like Christmas trees. The final touch—a broken … Continue reading →

Pinecone Snowy Owl

This is an easy craft for children of any age. You can get pinecones from craft stores as well as googly eyes and chenille sticks in white and brown for the wings and beak. Creative kids can use other materials … Continue reading →

Act of Kindness v Homework—which would you choose?

An elementary school in County Cork, Ireland, has replaced homework for the entire school in the month of December with a request that each student do an act of kindness. This can be anything as long as it “brightens someone’s … Continue reading →