K-4 Winter Holiday Resources
♫ IT'S THE MOST WONDERFUL TIME OF THE YEAR ♫
Learn about the Holidays
Find lots of different Hanukkah activities, games, stories, videos, and more at this website from JewishKids.org.
Use the ten activities at Holidays Around the World to help your students learn about customs of the season in different cultures. Brief descriptions accompany each lesson, and appropriate grade levels for each activity appear in parentheses. Click any lesson headline for a complete teaching lesson plan.
You can find more ideas on different Pinterest boards, including this one for Hanukkah, this one for Kwanzaa, and this one for Christmas. All of these focus on educational activities for the holidays.
As always, don't forget about checking out YouTube for videos about the different holidays. You'll find Elmo explaining Hanukkah and Kwanzaa.
Get Creative
Make-a-Flake (K-4)
Crayola Snowman Builder (PreK - 1st)
Inspirograph (K-4)
Educational Games
Santa Addition (1st - 3rd)
Santa's Addition has 4 levels of addition difficulty, Beginner, Easy, Medium, and Hard. Answer 10 questions right to have Santa's sleigh take off to deliver presents! And if you do well, you might just catch some of those presents!