December 1st

Get a Letter from Santa

Create a personalized letter from Santa with BigHugeLabs. Take time to explore all the other fun things you can create here.

December 2nd

Sharalike Video

Gather up your favorite photos from the year and set them to music for a slideshow video to share with family and friends. Upload your photos and videos, then choose from a limited number of slide show styles and transitions speeds. Music can also be added. Key feature is its simplicity. Free.  (iPad, Android, Web)  

TIP: If you need images with captions or other text, use Google Slides or Powerpoint first to add text and other effects to your photos. Then save/export the slides as regular jpg files to use in your Sharalike video.

December 3rd

Make a Snowman with Google Slides

What a fun way to build a snowman. Write a message, then take a screenshot to email your pictures to a friend. Or how about printing it out as a holiday card.

Clever use of Google slides! You could create projects like this for other holidays. How about one that kids can use to create their own avatar?

December 4th

Emojify the Holidays

Create an emoji and learn a bit of coding with Made With Code's Emojify the Holiday project. Explore the whole collection of coding projects.

December 5th

Storybird Poetry

Choose a piece of artwork from Storybird's beautiful collectino and create your own poem inspired by artwork, refrigerator magnet style.

December 6th

Peace Crane Project

Learn to fold origami peace cranes and learn the meaning of the Peace Crane project. Printable coloring pages for younger kids. Sign up your classroom or group to participate in a crane exchange with another student group. Lots of global connection possibilities here.

Use your cranes to decorate packages, create greeting cards or string a bunch together to decorate for the holidays.

December 7th

Books for Empathy Widget

Books for kids on Empathy, Diversity and the Immigrant Experience. Use this LibraryThing book widget on your own website.

If you have a librarything account, try your had at creating your own book widget.

December 8th

Holiday Cards

Choose from a selection of colorful holiday card designs. Then customize them and download for sharing and printing. 

December 9th

Light Up Christmas Cards

Make Rudolph's nose light up! Or light up a Christmas tree with these fun paper circuit holiday card templates. Paper Circuit Starter Kit

December 10th

Day By Day Family Literacy Calendars

A daily selection of early literacy resources for families. Spanish and English versions.

December 11th

Google Santa Tracker

Learn about holiday traditions, play games, some simple fun coding games. And of course, the Santa Tracker on Dec 24.

December 12th

Paper Circuit Menorah

What a cool science project! Create your own light-up menorah with copper tape circuits. Paper Circuit Starter Kit

December 13th

Make a Dreidel Launcher

Not getting enough spin on your dreidel? Make this simple launcher and watch it spin, spin, spin.

December 14th

Polar Express Activity Calendar

25 Days of The Polar Express: a variety of fun Polar Express-themed games and activities for every day in December up to the 25th!

December 15th

Winter Magnetic Poetry

Have fun with Winter Magnetic Poetry created with Google Slides. Just click on the USE TEMPLATE button at top right to make your own copy of it. Move the words around on Slide 1, check slides 2 and 3 for word lists. Thanks to Kasey Bell of Shake Up Learning for this fun activity.

I bet you can figure out how to make one of your own with different words and a different scene!

December 16th

Christmast Lights

Decorate the houses with twinkling lights and add some music. Fun for all ages.

December 17th

Hanukkah Word Search

Choice of an easy (small) or hard (big) word search puzzle.

December 18th

K-2 Holiday Creative Fun Collection

"Looking for some fun holiday activity options for your little learners in these last days before vacation? Check out this Holiday Fun Collection designed with young students in mind!" from Susan Stewart

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December 19th

30 Apps to Spread and Enjoy Some Holiday Cheer

Check out all the fun apps that Shelly Terrell has gathered in this post. Creating gifts, augmented reality, holiday fun and games, and more!

December 20th

Holiday Lights Writing

Scroll down to the bottom of Eric Curts' fun holiday post to find the directions for making your Google Doc text light up with holiday colors! How to spice up your family holiday letter! :)

December 21st

Christmas Photo Ornament

A quick and easy last minute craft project for kids. Perfect little giftie for grandparents. (And your great auntie as well! That would be me!)

December 22nd

Star Wars Snowflakes

Print out these intricate patterns and may the force be with you.

December 23rd

Create a Photo Puzzle Holiday Card

Pick one of Pixabay's colorful holiday images and select how many puzzle pieces you want. Write a message on the back of the puzzle, then share the link with your friends and family. When they solve the puzzle, they can read your greeting.

December 24th

Christmas Word Search

Choice of an easy (small) or hard (big) word search puzzle.