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

Brownielocks and the 3 Bears: Bizzare Holidays
Information, history, and links for some unknown holidays observed in the United States.
http://www.brownielocks.com/month2.html

Celebrate Holidays in the U.S.A.
Provides a brief description of the history and customs associated with holidays in the United States.
http://usa.usembassy.de/etexts/hol/celebrate.pdf

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

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/

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

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

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/

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/growth/holidays/

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/

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