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Mega resource sites

Yahooligans-Christmas From Christmas around the world (highly recommended!) to your choice of greeting card and recipe sites; from Santa tracking to writing to Santa on-line; favorite stories, poems and news, and a great search engine. This site comes pretty close to "having it all".

ESL Cybersite
mostly for ESL learners--activities for each day of December, Advent Calendar activities, crafts, poems, songs, stories.

Christmas.com Greetings from all over the world and world map plus stories from different countries, radio station, songs, recipes, crafts and plays.

How Christmas Works from How Stuff Works--A complete guide to Christmas traditions. Based upon the premise that an alien arrives on Earth a week before Christmas, this site has the questions and answers of "why" for all those holidays traditions.

Santa Land Old Fashion Holiday Traditions. All about ornaments, bells, arts & crafts, stories and extensive music collection.

Joy to the World features Christmas traditions in several countries; an analysis of whether there really is a Santa; some favorite stories like "the Grinch...", The Gift of the Magi, The Christmas Carol; clipart; music, crafts and letters from Santa.

Multi-cultural

December's Holidays Around the World
Featuring Hanuka, Christmas, Kwanzaa and more

Christmas--Kid's Link Multi-cultural Calendar See entries for different countries for Christmas, or conduct your own search. A wonderful tool for studying the holidays of our planet, and linking kids all over the world.

Santa Claus

Downloadable activities for the movie "The Santa Clause" by Adele Raemer
See a movie review

Santa Claus Online
- fun website where kids can write to and receive messages from Santa. Includes cool Christmas and Santa things to see, do, and hear.

Claus.com
- Check your Naughty or Nice rating. Choose your very own Elf Buddy. Play games in Elf School. Print your Honorary Elf Diploma. Sing along with new original Christmas songs. Try funny holiday recipes. Visit the amazing Toy Workshop. Send E-mail to Santa Claus.

Santa's Workshop With a welcome from Santa, try chatting with Santa; or maybe you want to find out how to get on the "Nice" list; or read Santa's favorite letters. Plus games and activities.

North Pole.com This lively site features Santa's Secret Village--explore the village and enter into some of the special areas: complete with sound, play the game at Santa's Workshop, the North Pole Weather Station to check forecast sites, the interactive Elf clubhouse (don't miss the Karoake station!), and finding hidden stories in the Reindeers' Barn

Favorite stories and entertainment

Christmas Stories, Poems and Carols Texts. Includes the "Grinch" and other favorites.

How The Grinch Stole Christmas "The Grinch Stole Christmas, Kwanzaa, and Hanukkah"
Great site showing how the Grinch stole holiday customs all over the world. Featuring a web quest and activities with lots of sites!

"Jim Carrey is the Grinch", advertisement with music and more for the new holiday movie. Enter the site for a cute "click and drag" activity which leads you to other parts of the site, and check out the Grinch browser!

"How the Grinch Stole Christmas" the old movie with more. Great graphics.

Video clip and wave files of the "old" Grinch (Boris Karloff's voice)

The Nutcracker

Seiskaya's Nutcracker complete with music, this site features the history of the production and the story, as well as interesting pages on the dancers and the ballet.

Nutcracker music MIDI files--don't miss this one! Also links to the story, performance and other sites.

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

Text to song--Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Outcast A modern-day commentary on Rudolph and his problem.

Fun, Games and Music

Merry Christmas.com Games, activities, coloring book, gift tags.

Merry Christmas.com Music downloads

Christmas Music Extensive collection of Christmas classics