A Collection of the Best Christmas Holiday Resources
Want to know the history of Santa Claus? This Wikipedia article gives you the original Christian origins of Santa Claus, his history in other countries, folklore, Santa’s American origins and NORAD, the program that tracks Santa’s annual trip to deliver gifts.
Wikipedia Article on Santa Claus
Kiddyhouse.com features a good list of teacher lesson plans for the Christmas holiday season. The lessons include a holiday rhyming lesson, writing to Santa Claus, making Christmas tree ornaments, a Mexican Christmas celebration, and more.
Christmas Holiday Lesson Plans
Holidays.net has a list of facts related to Christmas that are fun and informative. Learn facts about the number of Christmas cards sent every year, how long it takes a Christmas tree to reach six feet tall, which country makes the most artificial Christmas trees and what year Santa Claus was first mentioned in the [...]
Wassail is an ancient tradition dating back to the 14th century. Wassail is mentioned in the Christmas song “Here We Come A-Wassailing”. In years past wassail was associated with drink, parties and caroling from home to home during the Christmas season. Learn more about this ancient tradition in this article and how wassail came to [...]
This Christmas quiz starts easily enough then gets harder. Some questions are obscure or not easily known including traditions from other countries. Get through the novice quiz then try the more difficult Christmas quizzes and you’ll have some fun and learn something in the process.
Christmas Trivia Quiz
Wikipedia has a history of the advent calendar, including the origins of the original advent calendar and information on modern advent calendars. The article features information on unusual versions of advent calendars including Scandinavian towns that have television show based on advent calendars starting December 1st and a German town that paints scenes at houses [...]
Santaland has a long list of Christmas traditions from other countries including information on the Magi, the origins of the Christmas card, Christmas symbols, origin of Mistletoe, history of the Christmas tree and much more.
Christmas Traditions Around the World
Do you know how other countries celebrate Christmas? Thirty different countries are represented here with information about their unique Christmas customs. Find out how people celebrate in Brazil, Australia, India, Japan, Nicaragua and elsewhere.
Christmas Celebrations Around the World
Wikipedia has an article for grown-ups about the origins of Santa’s Workshop. Learn about Santa’s home and workshop located at the North Pole, the early stories of Santa’s Workshop in the American 20th century and the beginning of the first Santa’s Grotto in England in the late 1800’s.
Wikipedia Origin of Santa’s Workshop
Christmas for All has a long list of how to say Merry Christmas in different languages! From Austria to Czech Republic to Finland and Turkey you too can say Merry Christmas in a foreign language.
Merry Christmas In Different Languages
