Tag Archives: Christmas

Christmas Recipes for Kids

The BBC’s goodfood website has a wonderful selection of 66 recipes for you to make and for your kids to help participate and decorate. Each recipe shows the time they take to make, the level of difficulty, some show the … Continue reading →

Christmas Tree from Recycled Fabric

From a site called Fireflies & Mud Pies comes a great way to make a Christmas tree ornament with your children using ribbon or scraps of fabric. It could also help them learn how to tie knots for their shoe … Continue reading →

Christmas Tree Brownies

From Kidspot Kitchen comes a video showing an easy-to-make recipe for brownies in a round tin. Cut them into triangular tree shapes, apply green buttercream frosting and then decorate to make them look like Christmas trees. The final touch—a broken … Continue reading →

Pinecone Snowy Owl

This is an easy craft for children of any age. You can get pinecones from craft stores as well as googly eyes and chenille sticks in white and brown for the wings and beak. Creative kids can use other materials … Continue reading →

Act of Kindness v Homework—which would you choose?

An elementary school in County Cork, Ireland, has replaced homework for the entire school in the month of December with a request that each student do an act of kindness. This can be anything as long as it “brightens someone’s … Continue reading →

Learn About Holidays

Learn about some of the surprising origins of our family traditions and the holidays we all celebrate throughout the year. Continue reading →

Electric Eel Powers Christmas Tree Lights

Tennessee Aquarium in Chattanooga has an exhibit with an electric eel that goes by the name of Miguel Wattson. He has his own twitter account. But what is more surprising is this year, his shocks turn on the lights on … Continue reading →

World’s Largest Gingerbread House

Discover the story behind the World’s Largest Gingerbread House. Continue reading →

Santa’s Elves

Santa’s elves have been around a long time, but did you ever wonder where they live? Or how tall they are? Continue reading →

Christmas Seals

Do you like to draw? Kid Scoop has a collection of holiday pictures you can learn to draw, step-by-step! Web Links History of Christmas SealsThe American Lung Association started selling Christmas Seals in the United States in 1907. Here is … Continue reading →