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Popular Christmas Activities for 2013

Posted: 11 Dec 2013 11:00 AM PST

Over on our Facebook and Twitter accounts, we recently asked our friends and followers for their favourite Christmas activities. Here is a selection of the suggestions that we received. Why not try some of them yourself?

Craft Activities:

Make a snowman from socks (suggested by Alison).
Make melted snowman biscuits (suggested by Tracy and Vicki). Here is a video with some instructions:

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Ella suggested this great selection of Christmas ideas on Teach Ur Interest.
Making snowflakes (suggested by Rubina). A search for making paper snowflakes on Youtube gives lots of different instructional videos.
Rachel shared an idea from Pinterest which gives instructions to make an ‘Amaze-Balls Holiday Wreath’.

Online Advent Calendars

A number of schools have advent calendars on their school site that children can interact with. Galley Hill Primary School’s site has one that celebrates the children’s work. Gomersal St. Mary’s CE(A) Primary School have lots of mathematical challenges on their site, which children can answer using the commenting options. Could you explore these online advent calendars or work with your class to plan one for your school site in 2014?

Project Britain also has an advent calendar that everyone can enjoy. Teacher’s Pet also have an online advent calendar where they are giving away resources for teachers every day!

Christmas Nativity Scene

Other Links:

Phil suggested the wonderful whychristmas.com… it’s a fantastic source of information about Christmas traditions and customs around the world. There are also lots of activities available too.
Gaël recommended the Santa’s Grotto ESL lesson plan for French pupils.
Daniel also recommended the Santa’s Stuck ideas on Teachers Pay Teachers.
Don’t forget to take a look at the resource sites that we have suggested in previous years:
Our Christmas resources on Teaching Ideas have been incredibly popular over the past few weeks and teachers have also sent us lots of lovely comments about our Christmas resource pack on Teaching Packs.
Teacher’s Pet also have a 100 page Christmas Activity Pack on their wonderful Activities site.