Christmas Holidays Around the World Activities, Craft, and Kindergarten Centers

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Combine these Christmas Holidays Around the World activities, craft, passport, and kindergarten centers to learn about 9 Christmas Around the World and 8 holiday celebrations, all while traveling to 16 countries! Plus, easily review math and literacy skills with the 48 Holidays Around the World centers, including 24 literacy centers and 24 math centers for kindergarten!

Holidays Around the World Activities and Craft:

Engage your students with this complete Holidays Around the World unit, including student passports, boarding passes for each country, 50+ interactive student pages, and 64 nonfiction slides with real photographs. Your students will never forget this magical celebration and multicultural learning experience, as they travel the world to learn about the diverse holiday traditions!

With an integration of math, literacy, and social studies, each of the holidays around the world and Christmas around the world celebrations includes just the right amount of information to review just one country per day.

Easily plan and teach about the holidays around the world with the no prep nonfiction slides containing real photographs and kid-friendly language. Simply project each of the 64 slides to learn about the cultural traditions of each of the holidays. Easy peasy!

Then, complete the matching interactive student pages for each celebration. There are at least three printable student pages per holiday. The student pages are interactive, meaning the students will need to complete a task, to help them better retain the information.

At the end of your travel, the students will have a handy world shaped book containing all sorts of facts about the various holidays around the world. This is a great way to display and solidify their learning!

Included Holidays Around the World:

1. Hanukkah in Israel
2. Kwanzaa in the U.S.A.
3. Chinese New Year in China
4. Diwali in India
5. St. Lucia’s Day in Sweden
6. Las Posadas in Mexico
7. Ramadan in Egypt
8. Christmas in Australia
9. Christmas in America
10. Christmas in Canada
11. Christmas in England
12. Christmas in France
13. Christmas in Germany
14. Christmas in Italy
15. Christmas in the Netherlands
16. Christmas in Russia

Resources Included:

• Student Passport
• 16 Passport Stamps
• 16 Boarding Passes
• 54 Interactive Student Pages
• 64 Nonfiction Slides with Photographs
• 2 World Craft Cover Templates (Holidays Around the World or Christmas Around the World)

Holidays Around the World Centers:

These Holidays Around the World kindergarten centers cover 8 different holidays celebrated around the world, giving students a meaningful and inclusive way to practice various literacy and math skills covered during the months of October-February. All of the centers are highly engaging, easy to prep (just print and cut), and use standard classroom supplies!

With the kid-friendly I Can visual direction cards, students can independently complete each math and literacy center. Use the printable response sheets as a follow-up activity to help reinforce previously learned skills.

Perfect for center rotations, morning work, early finishers, or small group instruction!

Use these Holidays Around the World centers to…

⭐ Promote Student Independence

⭐ Reinforce Skills

⭐ Encourage Collaboration

⭐ Support Multisensory Learning

⭐ Strengthen Fine Motor Skills

⭐ Increase Student Engagement

Resources Included:

• 24 Math Centers (3 for each holiday)
• 24 Literacy Centers (3 for each holiday)
• 48+ Printable Response Sheets
• 48 Kid-Friendly I Can Visual Direction Cards
• 48 Teacher Direction Cards

Diwali Center Activities:

1. CVC Word Diyas (decoding CVC words)
2. Firework Sounds (beginning sounds t-,s-,p-,m-,n,and c-)
3. Ladoo Letters (uppercase letter formation)
4. Diwali Numbers (subitizing numbers 1-10)
5. Diwali Comparison (comparing quantities)
6. Rangoli Patterns (shapes, patterns, and lines of symmetry)

St. Lucia’s Day Center Activities:

1. Saffron Bun Sounds (short vowel middle sounds)
2. Gingernut Cookie Alphabet (ABC order)
3. Yule Goat Sounds (identifying beginning sounds)
4. Count the Candles (1:1 counting)
5. Crown Cake Tens (making 10 using ten frames)
6. St. Lucia’s Buns Comparison (comparing quantities)

Hanukkah Center Activities:

1. Dreidel Digraphs (beginning digraphs ch-, sh-, th-, and wh-)
2. Hanukkah Rhymes (rhyming)
3. Spinning Sounds (ending sounds -l, -g, -t, and -r)
4. Counting On Presents (counting on from a given number 0-20)
5. Sufganiyot Addition (addition within 10)
6. Teen Number Latkes (modeling numbers 11-20 on ten frames)

Las Posadas Center Activities:

1. Rhyming Pinatas (rhyming a word to a picture)
2. Las Posadas (decoding sentences)
3. Tamale CVC Words (segmenting CVC words)
4. Addition Poinsettias (addition within 5)
5. Subitizing Pinatas (subitizing 1-10)
6. Las Posadas Patterns (AB, ABB, AAB, and ABC patterns)

Christmas Center Activities:

1. North Pole Alphabet (building uppercase and lowercase letters)
2. Rhyming Presents (rhyme choice)
3. Nutcracker Families (word families)
4. North Pole Measurement (non-standard measurement)
5. Gingerbread Addition (adding one more)
6. Missing Stockings (ordering numbers 0-20)

Kwanzaa Center Activities:

1. Alphabet Djembe Drums (recognizing uppercase and lowercase letters)
2. Zawadi Syllables (counting syllables)
3. Mkeka CVC Mats (onset & rime for CVC words)
4. Muhindi Numbers (subitizing teen numbers)
5. Kinara Shapes (2D shapes)
6. Kwanzaa Shapes (graphing and analyzing data)

Ramadan Center Activities:

1. Fanous CVC Words (substituting the beginning sound in CVC words)
2. ABC Dates (ABC order)
3. Ramadan Syllables (counting syllables)
4. Base Ten Lanterns (modeling numbers with base ten blocks)
5. Ramadan Shapes (3D shapes)
6. Ramadan Subtraction (subtraction within 5)

Lunar New Year Center Activities:

1. Lantern Word Families (word families -at, -et, -in, -og, and -ug)
2. Firecrackers CVC Words (identifying missing sounds in CVC words)
3. Lunar New Year Blends (decoding CCVC words with l-blends)
4. Base Ten Fish (modeling teen numbers with base ten blocks)
5. Chinese Lion Digits (number formation 11-20)
6. Fortune Cookie Numbers (ordering numbers 11-20)

I hope you and your students love these Christmas Holidays Around the World activities, craft, and kindergarten centers!

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