Celebrating Winter Holidays | Winter Holiday Activities

Winter Holidays - Ways to Celebrate

Activity Overview

In this fun activity, students will explore the different ways people celebrate the winter holidays. Students can use a web or grid to show some of the celebrations for one or more holidays. You can also use this activity to examine historical and/or religious aspects of the winter holiday season, discussing different practices throughout history.

Here are just a few thoughts to get your students started:

lighting candles
- menorah
- kinara
- advent wreath
- lights in windows
family visits
parties
gift exchange
cards
church or temple services
feast
outdoor decoration
special food
holiday games
holiday music
volunteering/giving to others

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Holiday Storyboard Activity

Create a holiday storyboard!

	Proficient	Emerging	Beginning
Visualizations	Images show creativity and care.	Scenes, characters, and items are appropriate for this purpose.	Images are confusing or do not make sense for this purpose.
Evidence of Effort	Work is complete, thorough, and neat.	Work shows some evidence of effort.	Work shows little evidence of any effort.
Conventions	Ideas are organized. There are few or no grammatical, mechanical, or spelling errors.	Ideas are mostly organized. There are some grammatical, mechanical, or spelling errors.	Ideas may be disorganized or misplaced. Lack of control over grammar, mechanics, and spelling reflect a lack of proofreading.