Hop on down the bunny trail!

 Good morning everyone,

"Hippity hoppity Easter is on it's way!" Below are some interactive Easter activities for you to do in your classroom on a computer or interactive whiteboard. Some of my favorites include:

Easter Reading Activity Simple reading text and online quiz.  Online Easter Word Search Interactive Easter word search  Egg Catch Game: Catch the falling eggs with the basket. Easter Quiz - Have fun answering these Easter questions. Elementary grammar quizzes. Put the jumbled words in the correct order to make sentences. 9-Piece Tile Swap Puzzle: Swap the puzzle pieces to put the picture back together.  Decorate an Easter Egg : Pick a color for your egg, decorate, and print.  Egg Fun Decorate and print your own Easter Egg design with this bright and sunny activity! Easter Egg Dress Up Game - Dress up the egg for Easter.  MightyBook.com An Easter matching activity as well as an e-book. Found on Smartboard goodies blog But to find more Easter games for your little bunnies click here to be linked to my Wednesdays with Sam page!  Have a "hoppy" Easter!

Lovely labor day activities

Hi everyone happy labor day! Below are some fun and educational labor day activities to play with your students on the computer or print them out. Be sure to view this BrainPop video about the topic: http://www.brainpop.com/socialstudies/freemovies/cesarchavez/

Labor Day coloring pages - Some labor day interactive coloring pages. 

Community helpers - Community helpers see and hear what they do

American Symbols game Simply match the symbol to the correct description.

Enchanted learning printables - Crafts include a labor collage, building a town out of recycled materials including paper towel rolls and tissue boxes, printable activity books, puzzles, vocabulary worksheets, alphabet games, and coloring pages brought to you by Enchanted learning.

Labor day word jumble Try to guess the word. Then click in the applet to show the answer. After showing the answer, click again for another randomly-chosen word with scrambled letters.

Labor day word search interactive Each word on the list is hidden in the pool of letters. To circle a discovered word, mouse-click on one end of the word and mouse-drag to the other end of the word. Words may be hidden horizontally, vertically, diagonally, forward, or backward

Phenomenal father's day activities

Below are some fun father's day activities do with your family this weekend! More fun father's day activities can be found here.


Father's day pages - Interactive fathers day coloring pages

Match dad's ties - Click on the buttons to reveal the pictures. Match all of the pictures to win. 

Father's day puzzle - Unscramble the pieces to make a picture. Click on the puzzle piece that you want to move. Hold your mouse button down, and move the puzzle piece to where you think it should go.

very cool e-card maker for the official Phineas and Ferb website for Father’s Day, called the “Dad-inator.” Not only can you pick which character(s) you want to use, but you can also to some extent customize the animated card by placing related objects in the scene. Found on geek dad blog

Gone fishin' - Click on the maze with your mouse to start the game. Use the arrow keys to move through the maze and get to the end. 

Memorable memorial day sites

Looking for some interactive ways to celebrate memorial day with your students? Check out some of these sites. 

Found here

Memorial Day Coloring Pages interactive crayons and coloring pages that salute our men and women in the Armed Services.

US Memorial Day Holiday website has many links that would be useful for teachers and students to learn about Memorial Day. This site has information on the history and causalities, along with the ability to create and read e-cards and poems. Found on Free Teacher Resources | Special Education

online activities page includes puzzles, quizzes, and other sites with activities. This is a great one-stop resource to put together a lesson or short unit about Memorial Day. Found on Free Teacher Resources | Special Education

Memorial day word jumble - memorial day word jumble

Patriotic pairs - Match these patriotic symbols! This game is divided into 3 levels, good luck!

For more memorial day sites to use in your class check out Wednesdays with Sam 

2 days of Christmas - Santa's apps

Let's take a look to see what's on Santa's ipad! Here are some cute Christmas apps to use your on your iphone, ipod, or ipad.

• Best Christmas apps for kids
• 9 holiday cheer apps
• 10 free holiday apps
• Top 9 holiday apps
• 21 festive apps

3 days of Christmas - random Christmas games

For this post I decided to post a link to all the other games I have tagged in my Diigo library that are related to Christmas. So here is the Christmas buffet..pick what you like!

• Email Santa - Email the big guy in red
• Cute Christmas ecards from Holiday Ecard - Here are some very cute ecards with a christmas theme
• Design your own Gingerbread house- Decorate a gingerbread house virtually.
• Snowflake workshop- Create a beautiful snowflake in the snowflake workshop
• Christmas themed switch games - switch games with a Christmas theme
• More Christmas switch games  - switch games with a Christmas theme 
• 12 days of Christmas game - Click on the ornaments to play 12 different Christmas games
• Norad track Santa - Track Santa around the world as he delivers packages to all the boys and girls.
• Cute ecard to learn about cause and effect while building an adorable snowman- Snowman e card
• Santa solitare - Play solitaire with cards that have a Santa theme
• Send a personalized call from Santa - Use gmail to send a call from Santa to your little one.

4 days of Christmas..See what Mrs. Claus is cooking

Let's see what Mrs. Claus is cooking up for Santa, the elves, and reindeer this year..

Northpole kitchen - The elves and I are baking some wonderful holiday treats. We have collected some of our favorite holiday recipes in my special cookbook. Just click on me or my cookbook below to take a look. Perfect for the little ones!

Claus' cookbook - Get a sneak peak at the Claus' cookbook!  Perfect for the little ones!

Kraft's holiday how to center - Want to know how to create a Christmas confection? Check out this Kraft site...we know Mrs. Claus does!

Family Fun - Has some cute Christmas cooking ideas from appetizers to main dishes. Also check out Christmas cookies for little hands from Family Fun. 

Kid's cooking corner on about - Great ideas for snowflake cupcakes and Christmas tree pizza!  

Christmas cooking for kids - Here is a great idea for a kid to cook up their favorite tasty Christmas confections and give them as gifts! 

Recommended Recipe sites:

• Kaboose Christmas recipes
• All recipes holiday corner
• Apples for the teacher Christmas recipes
• Kids in the kitchen  
  

"Christmas Cookies date back to medieval times as well as to various regions and countries. Some believe that the Gingerbread cookie, or the German Lubkuchen, was the first known traditional Christmas Cookie. Sugar type cookies descended from England. The original Animal Crackers were the first edible Christmas Tree Ornament's. The earliest American Christmas Cookies came to us compliments of the Dutch in the early 1600's." - Christmas cookie lore

 

1st night of Hanukkah - ebooks and coloring books

Here are some interactive books and coloring pages all about Hanukkah. 

Hanukkah coloring pages- Most Hanukkah coloring pages come with a selection of sentences. 

Hanukkah for kids - A great website all for kids all about Hanukkah  - games, activities, interactives, and more!

Hanukkah coloring pages from lil fingers - Hanukkah coloring pages

Hanukkah coloring book - interactive Hanukkah coloring book

Interactive Hanukkah coloring pages - Interactive Hanukkah coloring pages found online

Lessons learned at Hanukkah - E-book about Hanukkah from story home
Hanukkah gifts - interactive book about Hanukkah
Life of Hanukkah - interactive book geared towards older students.

5 days of Christmas - Here comes Santa Claus...

 Here are some fun Santa related games and activities to play.

• Run Santa! - Santa has gained too much weight this year, help him run it off and avoid those extra goodies with this fun keyboard game. 

• Send a personal call from Santa from Gmail! 
•  Santa filbrinks - Santa filbrinks clear the screen 
• Snowball shoot out Can you hit Santa with a snowball? Make sure that you don't hit Rudolph. 
• Santa's trip - Santa distributes gifts all around the world. Can you remember his route? 
• Stack the sleigh Help Santa stack the the presents into size order before delivering them down the correct chimneys. Start with the longest present

 

• Whose Present Listening activity, match the child with their present by listening to what Santa has to say. 
• kids songs - Listen to a song about Santa and the busy elf. There is a game you can play while the song is loading, or you can do it before you listen to the song. Here are 5 words you will hear in the song. Can you draw lines between the words and the pictures? 
• Happy Christmas - Help Santa deliver the packages on time! 
• Santa's story - It's Christmas Eve and Santa's getting ready to deliver presents to boys and girls all round the world. How can he deliver all the presents in time?
• Merry Message from Better Homes and Gardens. Have Santa Claus deliver an audio message either by recording your own voice or by using the text-to-speech feature. 
• Santa swing - dancing Santa! Make yourself Santa or santa's helper then bust a move!
  

  

6 days of Christmas - polar express..All aboard!

Here are some perfect polar express sites...

Storyline online- search through for polar express - its the 4th page of stories

Polar Express/ - count down to Christmas

Crossword - Polar express crossword puzzle

Theatre play - Polar Express readers theater play

Ticket chase - play the polar express ticket chase 

Similarities - check out the two pictures and find what is similar in both

 

7 days of Christmas - Oh Christmas tree...

Oh Christmas tree...

It's time to decorate the Christmas tree! Gather your students around an interactive whiteboard or computer and decorate some of these fun interactive online trees!

Decorate a tree - From apples for the teacher

Decorate a Christmas Tree: Decorate the tree with blinking lights and yummy sugar cookies

Decorate your tree

Jan Brett Christmas tree

Fun ranch Christmas tree

Light up the tree Can you turn on all the lights?

Decorate the Christmas Tree

Trim the tree with this interactive drag and drop activity

Jog the Web Christmas activities

virtual Christmas tree 

8 days of christmas - ornaments!

Let's make some beautiful ornaments online! 

Christmas Ornament Swap: Swap two ornaments so there are 3  ornaments that are the same in a row. Found on More holiday games

Ornaments Off the Edge Game: Make sure the Ornaments don't reach the edge!Found on More holiday games

5 Ornaments in a Line: Remove the Christmas ornaments by lining up five ornaments in a row! Found on More holiday games

Decorate a tree - Decorate a tree with the ornaments of your choice.

Ornament print out - Print out this ornament book and color a picture on each. Found on  Christmas theme printables

Make Christmas ornaments recipe Found on  Christmas theme printables

Christmas ornament- no bake Christmas ornaments

9 days of Christmas - write a letter to Santa

Write a letter to Santa...

 

It's never too late to write a letter to Santa...so check out these fun and interactive letter writing games. 

• Merry Message from Better Homes and Gardens. Have Santa Claus deliver an audio message either by recording your own voice or by using the text-to-speech feature.
• Northpole mailbox - send an animated postcard from the North Pole
• Letter to Santa - Can you put the letter back together?
• Northpole elf pal - The Elf Pal Academy offers activities that can easily be incorporated into lesson plans or a home schooling agenda. The activities combine learning with colorful artwork that will entertain children for hours
• Northpole letter  - Send a letter to Santa 
• Elf chat - Chat with one of Santa's special helpers 

Fun sites

To learn how to raise money for Make A Wish by writing a letter to Santa click  here

For more Christmas activities click here 

 

11 days of Christmas - The Grinch!

 
The Grinch stole Christmas!

Stop the Grinch From Stealing Mouse clicking game to save Christmas! There are 13 gifts under the tree and the Grinch wants them all! Save Christmas by clicking on Grinch before he grabs the presents. You have to move fast - he's quick! 

How the Grinch Stole Christmas - Online Coloring Book Interactive coloring book with scenes from How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Three images from the book can be colored. Interactive drawing tools included: draw circles, squares or add your own freehand drawing!

Grinch memory game - Play this memory game themed with the Grinch!  

Coloring fun - a fun interactive click and drag game

Grinch quiz - Get your Grinch on with this interactive quiz all about the big green guy!  

Grinch printables  

Grinch in suessville  

Can you find the Grinch printable?

13 days of christmas - elf!

Here are some excellent games and interactive pieces all about Santa's little helpers!

Northpole elf pal - The Elf Pal Academy offers activities that can easily be incorporated into lesson plans or a home schooling agenda. The activities combine learning with colorful artwork that will entertain children for hours.

kids songs - Listen to a song about Santa and the busy elf. There is a game you can play while the song is loading.Santa swing - dancing Santa! Make yourself Santa or santa's helper then bust a move!

Elf yourself- elf yourself! Create an elf inspired ecard that you star in!  

Elf snowball battle - Snowball fight!

Dress Up Elves:  Two little elves to dress up for Christmas

 

14 days of Christmas - gingerbread

Mmm...nothing says Christmas more than the smell of Gingerbread coming from the oven! Here are some great gingerbread based games and stories to use in your class or  home!

gingerbread man - decorate a gingerbread man 

Gingerbread house - Gingerbread house recipe

Gingerbread Cookie Card - send a gingerbread man that you created as a christmas e card.

The Gingerbread Man With Everything lets you create your own virtual…gingerbread man and send or post the link.
  

Gingerbread man story - An interactive gingerbread man story. 

Gingerbread man on Starfall - Here is a fun gingerbread man story and activity from Star fall!  

Gingerbread house - Design and print your own Gingerbread house 

Gingerbread house 2.0 - Click and drag to create your own gingerbread house!  

Gingerbread house 2.2 - Create a cute and  interactive gingerbread house, found this on my Diigo list!

Great Gingerbread resources: 

Gingerbread man themed activities  Web Resources for Educators by Midge Frazel

Gingerbread websites

More gingerbread man fun

15 days of Christmas - frosty the snowman!

Frosty the snowman...here are some fun games with a fun Frosty theme! If it is too cold outsie, have a good time playing inside with these super fun snowman games!


Dress up these funny snowmen - match the items on the two snowmen.

Build a Snowman - click and drag the items to build and dress the snowman

Make a snowman - Create a fun snowman by adding in buttons, scarves, hats, mittens, and a face!

Snowman Drag the pieces to build a snowman in this fun kindergarten and preschool game.   

Snowy Fun! Whether you live near snow or not, everyone can join in the fun of decorating their own snowman in Snowy Fun. Come work on your math facts and earn decorations to customize your snowman. Hurry! Don't delay for soon the snow may melt away. 

Coloring Pages - Use your interactive crayon to paint these fun coloring pages of New Year symbols - father time, baby father time, happy New Year snowman, clock set at midnight, noisemakers, and a party man waiting for the New Year.


 Holiday Fun Preschool Activity Center Play all day at the Holiday Fun Preschool Center! Build a snowman, print a snowflake or play the holiday coloring game - it's a barrel of fun!
  

16 days of christmas - reindeer games

You know Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, and Vixen, Comet, and Cupid, Donner and Blitzen but do you recall...the most famous reindeer of all???

...It's that time of year, time for the reindeer games to begin! Check out these fun games all starring Rudolph and his friends! 

• Tootin' Reindeer - Cause and effect - click on the reindeer and hear them...toot
• Reindeer orchestra - Click on the reindeer to play a song.
• Santa's Gift Sling:  Have Santa use the sling on the reindeer to shoot the Christmas gifts into the chimney.
• Reindeer Coloring Page (color online) - An online coloring page all about reindeer.
• Where's Raymond the Reindeer? - Find an interactive reindeer barn and learn about Raymond and his reindeer friends.
• Rooney Reindeer's Match up - Match the pictures in this fun concentration game.  
•   Rooney says Follow Me! – A fun Simon says interactive game.
•  Reindeer Team e-card - Send this cute reindeer e card to a friend.

21 Days of Christmas - advent calendars

Today I am starting a post which will go on for the next 21 days. In these posts I will highlight different Christmas related activities or games to play on the Smartboard interactive whiteboard or personal computer. 21 days of Christmas post 1 - advent calendars! This is the time of year where we countdown to Christmas using advent calendars. Why not have your class countdown to the Christmas holiday with these fun and interactive calendars:

• Advent calendar - Interactive web 2.0 advent calendar
• Christmas Around the World Advent Calendar Quiz- Each day students are asked a question and given hints to help them answer. When the answer is revealed, students can click on links to learn more about the Christmas celebrations in that country.
• Wix advent calendar - Check this fun interactive advent calendar by Wix.com

Macy's Believe

I'm sure we have all seen this commercial once or twice during our holiday season:


Since my last blog post about Macy's Believe campaign, there has been over 270,00 letters received. This means over $270,000 will be donated to Make A Wish! What an amazing total thus far, I believe that we can make it to 1 million!

Please check out the following links to get your class or kids involved in this wonderful cause! All you have to do is write a letter to Santa and place it into Santa's mailbox located in any Macy's store. For every letter sent, Macy's will donate $1 towards Make a Wish.

Create your letter - Write your letter to Santa here. Decorate and print!

Watch and read the story about Virginia

Santa's Post office - learn all about Santa's special post office located at Macy's

Make a Wish - Learn about the Make a Wish Foundation and how it impacts children and their families. Here you can download a template of a letter or create one online.

Believe app - This is a great app to have on your phone when visiting Macy's. Bring Virginia and her friends to life with this AR app!

Teacher toolkit - Here is a tool kit created by Macy's to help in the classroom.

Have you written a letter to Santa and sent it via Macy's special post office? Please comment below about your experience.