Holiday Activities

Here are some links to interactive holiday activities for your classroom. Most are in Flash and most would be great on an interactive white board or with a touch screen. (Note you can use the Firefox extension ScrapBook to view off line or download to the newest Real Player - will lose interactivity this way.)

• Decorate gingerbread cookies here or here
• Make a Flake
  
• Santa's Deer (slightly distasteful in that middle school boy kind of way)
• I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas
• Christmas Monkeys
• Drag and Drop Decorate for Christmas
• Decorate the Tree
  
• Decorate Your Christmas Tree
• Diving Penguin Game (can be played with one switch set on spacebar)

Flash Videos (not interactive - download with the new Real Player and insert into PPT, Clicker5 or Classroom Suite activities)

• Pretty Paper
• I believe in Santa Claus
• Snow Duet
• We Wish You a Merry Christmas
• White Christmas
• Joy to the World (religious images)
• Dog Bark Jingle Bells

Links to about a dozen Flash items.

Websites of the Day - Winter Holiday Ideas

It's tough to be any kind of teacher the week before December break. In special needs rooms chances are your attendance will spotty, no one will be able to focus (staff or kids) and some kind of party is in order (unless your school forbids it). Here are some websites with crafts, activities or other ideas for this week.

Class-Parties.Com lists party decorations, craft, activities and recipes.

DLTK has crafts, activity ideas and printables.

Enchanted Learning has more of the same as does Easy Child Crafts.

If you are looking for some free music for your parties or activities try I Love Wavs, for Christmas, Hanukkah and New Years music, not to mention a nice selection of pre-school/elementary music.

Finally there is Childfun.com and their subsidiary ColoringBookFun.com which have coloring sheets, crafts, activities, poems and songs. Although this is a much more ad heavy site than I normally would post, I am pointing it out because of a favor they are asking of their visitors. They are asking visitors to vote for Jenny W in the Worst Holiday Gift Contest, with the prize money to be split between two of the Childfun.com board member who have been diagnosed with cancer (breast and ovarian).