Holidays and Special Days

Billy Bear's on Holiday
Holiday stories, online games, clipart, printable activities, and coloring pages.
http://www.billybear4kids.com/holidays/fun.htm

Celebrate Holidays in the U.S.A.
Provides a brief description of the history and customs associated with holidays in the United States.
http://www.usemb.se/Holidays/celebrate/

Celebrating Holidays with a Kid's Heart
Includes on-line games and puzzles, activity and coloring pages, free original clipart, screen savers, and downloads.
http://akidsheart.com/holidays/holidays.htm

Celebrating The Fall Harvest
Games and activities for celebrating the fall harvest season with kids.
http://hometown.aol.com/panda34911/KidsParties/HolidayFunPg11DFallA.html

Chantessy's Page of Holiday Fun
Activities for the current holiday. Includes games, jokes, poems, book reviews, and music.
http://www.rainbow-magic.com/holidays/index.html

Children Of The Moon Playhouse
Provides weekly themes, holidays, animals, arts, crafts, and fun activities. Created for chronically-ill children, but fun for everyone.
http://www.moonchildren.com/children/

Christmas at KraftProject
Variety of holiday craft projects for people of all ages.
http://www.geocities.com/kraftproject/index/hcp.html

Citizenship Day: from Rumela.com
History, tradition, and facts of this event.
http://www.rumela.com/events/events_september_citizen.htm

DLTK's Holiday Crafts for Kids
Printable templates for children's holiday crafts. Suitable for preschool, kindergarten, and gradeschool kids.
http://www.dltk-kids.com/crafts/holidays.html

Earth Calendar
A daybook of holidays and celebrations around the world. Holidays are listed by date, country, and religion.
http://www.earthcalendar.net/

Happy Holidays from BlackDog
Includes free holiday screen savers, coloring pages, games, and puzzles.
http://blackdog.net/holiday.html

Heartwarming Holiday Stories & Poems
Offers Christmas, springtime, autumn, and patriotic reads, along with a special tribute to moms, cookie recipes, and gift-in-a-jar ideas.
http://www.heartwarmingholidays.com/dee/home.html

Histories of the Holidays
Short articles explain the histories of most American holidays, their symbols and traditions.
http://www.billpetro.com/HolidayHistory/

History of the Holidays
Provides information, and the history on Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa from the History Channel.
http://www.history.com/genericContent.do?id=53343

Holiday Fun from PrimaryGames.com
Holiday games, crafts, coloring pages, stationery, and musical postcards.
http://www.primarygames.com/holiday_fun.htm

The Holiday Zone
Offers seasonal coloring pages, puzzles, stories, poems, children's songs, fingerplays and action rhymes, game ideas, and crafts.
http://www.theholidayzone.com/

Kards For Kids
Animated musical greeting cards and interactive fun pages.
http://www.happydaycards.com/kardsforkids.htm

KIDPROJ's Multi-Cultural Calendar
Part of KIDPROJ, site is a searchable database of world-wide holidays; all information is written by children.
http://www.kidlink.org/KIDPROJ/MCC/

Kids' Turn Holidays
Includes crafts, games, recipes, and information on traditions.
http://www.kidsturncentral.com/holidays.htm

KidsGen: Holidays and Festivals Celebrations for Kids
Offers activities and information for a number of observances.
http://www.kidsgen.com/events/

National Youth Service Day
Offers project ideas, media information, and answers to frequently asked questions about this event.
http://ysa.org/NatlGYSD/tabid/59/Default.aspx

OPM Federal Holidays
Offers a list of federally-recognized holidays celebrated in the United States.
http://www.opm.gov/Operating_Status_Schedules/fedhol/

Sassy Cat's Holiday World
Offers stories, poems, and activities for Christmas, Halloween and St. Patrick's Day.
http://www.sassycats.com/holidayworld.html

Seasonal Web Pages
Offers stories, poems, and historical background information related to Christmas, Thanksgiving, Easter, and Halloween.
http://www.new-life.net/holidays.htm

Shichi-Go-San for Kids
Japanese Holiday for 7-5-3 year old boys and girls. Visit a Shinto Shrine in Tokyo. See what kids wear, what they get to eat, and learn about the important symbols of Shichigosan.
http://www.geocities.com/shichigosan2001/

Through the Year: Holidays and Celebrations
Directory of links for many different holidays, from the librarians of NOBLE, the North of Boston Library Exchange.
http://www.noblenet.org/year/

Unknown, Silly, Crazy, Bizarre, Goofy, Untraditional Monthly Holidays, Celebrations & Observances
Information, history, and links for some unknown holidays observed in the United States.
http://www.brownielocks.com/month2.html

Year Round Holiday Games for Families
Provides printable word searches, scrambles, mazes, and other games appropriate for children. Graphics intensive.
http://hometown.aol.com/SAmon349/KidsParties/HolidayFunPg7Val.html

The Youth Online Club:
Holiday history, games, recipes, crafts, decorating ideas, coloring, clip art, and stories.
http://www.youthonline.ca/holidays.shtml