HubHip - Holidays and Special Days

DescriptionThe sites listed in this category are designed to inform or help young people ages 3-18 to celebrate holidays. Sites focused on single holidays are listed in appropriate sub categories.

Holidays and Special Days

Happy Holidays from BlackDog (Site) - Includes free holiday screen savers, coloring pages, games, and puzzles.

Celebrate Holidays in the U.S.A. (Site) - Provides a brief description of the history and customs associated with holidays in the United States.

Children Of The Moon Playhouse (Site) - Provides weekly themes, holidays, animals, arts, crafts, and fun activities. Created for chronically-ill children, but fun for everyone.

Chantessy's Page of Holiday Fun (Site) - Activities for the current holiday. Includes games, jokes, poems, book reviews, and music.

Billy Bear's on Holiday (Site) - Holiday stories, online games, clipart, printable activities, and coloring pages.

Seasonal Web Pages (Site) - Offers stories, poems, and historical background information related to Christmas, Thanksgiving, Easter, and Halloween.

DLTK's Holiday Crafts for Kids (Site) - Printable templates for children's holiday crafts. Suitable for preschool, kindergarten, and gradeschool kids.

Kids' Turn Holidays (Site) - Includes crafts, games, recipes, and information on traditions.

Celebrating Holidays with a Kid's Heart (Site) - Includes on-line games and puzzles, activity and coloring pages, free original clipart, screen savers, and downloads.

Heartwarming Holiday Stories & Poems (Site) - Offers Christmas, springtime, autumn, and patriotic reads, along with a special tribute to moms, cookie recipes, and gift-in-a-jar ideas.

KIDPROJ's Multi-Cultural Calendar (Site) - Part of KIDPROJ, site is a searchable database of world-wide holidays; all information is written by children.

History of the Holidays (Site) - Provides information, and the history on Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa from the History Channel.

Year Round Holiday Games for Families (Site) - Provides printable word searches, scrambles, mazes, and other games appropriate for children. Graphics intensive.

National Youth Service Day (Site) - Offers project ideas, media information, and answers to frequently asked questions about this event.

Through the Year: Holidays and Celebrations (Site) - Directory of links for many different holidays, from the librarians of NOBLE, the North of Boston Library Exchange.

Citizenship Day: from Rumela.com (Site) - History, tradition, and facts of this event.

Histories of the Holidays (Site) - Short articles explain the histories of most American holidays, their symbols and traditions.

The Youth Online Club: (Site) - Holiday history, games, recipes, crafts, decorating ideas, coloring, clip art, and stories.

Shichi-Go-San for Kids (Site) - 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.

Kards For Kids (Site) - Animated musical greeting cards and interactive fun pages.

Celebrating The Fall Harvest (Site) - Games and activities for celebrating the fall harvest season with kids.

Sassy Cat's Holiday World (Site) - Offers stories, poems, and activities for Christmas, Halloween and St. Patrick's Day.

Conkers and Ghosts (Site) - British site for children about local traditions, customs, and folklore celebrates "Pigs Face Day" or "Dragon Battle Day."

Christmas at KraftProject (Site) - Variety of holiday craft projects for people of all ages.

Holiday Fun from PrimaryGames.com (Site) - Holiday games, crafts, coloring pages, stationery, and musical postcards.

The Holiday Zone (Site) - Offers seasonal coloring pages, puzzles, stories, poems, children's songs, fingerplays and action rhymes, game ideas, and crafts.

Unknown, Silly, Crazy, Bizarre, Goofy, Untraditional Monthly Holidays, Celebrations & Observances (Site) - Information, history, and links for some unknown holidays observed in the United States.

KidsGen: Holidays and Festivals Celebrations for Kids (Site) - Offers activities and information for a number of observances.

Earth Calendar (Site) - A daybook of holidays and celebrations around the world. Holidays are listed by date, country, and religion.

OPM Federal Holidays (Site) - Offers a list of federally-recognized holidays celebrated in the United States.