Christmas Tree Activities for Early Learning

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Special Trees; Lesson Plans; Things to Print; Things to Make; Crafts; Online Activities; Media )

Christmas Tree Facts and History to Share

Christmas Tree Terms (Glossary)

http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/nreos/forest/xmas/growing/ag95-V.htm#terms

Christmas Tree Growing – Step-by-Step

http://www.willeyschristmastrees.com/seedharv.htm

videos: http://nwtrees.com/treemovies.htm

History of Christmas Trees

http://www.christmasarchives.com/trees.html

Christmas Tree Factoids (Pick and Choose Which to Share)

http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/trees/treefacts.html

Christmas Trees Around the World (some ads)

http://www.historychannel.com/exhibits/holidays/christmas/around.html

 

Specific Special Christmas Trees

Christmas Tree in Rockefeller Center (includes live webcam, video history and more) (some ads here)

http://www.wnbc.com/christmastree/index.html

Christmas Trees in the White House – (Choose your favorite or design your own)

http://www.hoover.archives.gov/exhibits/WHChristmas/index.html

The USA’s Living Christmas Tree

http://www.nps.gov/seki/xmastree.htm#Christmas

Lesson Plans about Christmas Trees

From the Christmas Tree Growers – Lessons and Materials

http://www.christmastrees.on.ca/education/teacher-s-guide.html

http://www.christmastreesny.org/kidzone/edu_kit/EDKIT.pdf

Count the Christmas Trees – graphing and more (second grade and up)

http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/02/lp290-02.shtml

Christmas Project Examples from REAL Classes

http://home.earthlink.net/~gbnewman/octproject.html

Write a Poem in a Christmas Tree Shape

http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/00-2/lp2256.shtml

Things to Print and Do

Christmas Tree Page to Count Down to Christmas

http://atozteacherstuff.com/pdf.htm?tree.pdf

Christmas Tree Mini Book to Print and Complete

http://atozteacherstuff.com/pdf.htm?ChristmasTreeCutie.pdf

Christmas Tree Crossword Puzzle

http://www.abcteach.com/wordpuzzles/Crosswords/Christmas.html

Simple Christmas Tree Maze to Print

http://www.coloringbookfun.com/christmas/imagepages/image49.html

Christmas Pages to Print and Color

http://www.coloringbookfun.com/christmas/

Christmas Tree Card to Print and Color

http://www.billybear4kids.com/holidays/christmas/card/p-card2.htm

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/crafts/christmas/treecard/

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/crafts/christmas/popuptree/

Christmas Tree Activity Books to Print and Do

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/books/holiday/christmas/tree/

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/books/holiday/christmas/decoratetree/

Things to Make and Use

Christmas Tree Folder Activity to Make for Students to do (shapes)

http://www.preschoolprintables.com/filefolder/tree/filefoldertree.shtml

Christmas Word Wall Words (includes many Christmas words in stocking shapes)

http://www.abcteach.com/free/members/10398.pdf

Christmas Tree Math fact books

subtraction: http://www.abcteach.com/Christmas/subtraction.htm

multiplication: http://www.abcteach.com/Christmas/multiplication.htm

addition: http://www.abcteach.com/Christmas/addition.htm

Christmas Tree Bingo (shapes and/or colors)

http://www.activityvillage.co.uk/christmas_tree_bingo.htm

Custom Christmas Bingo Cards

http://www.dltk-cards.com/bingo/

Crafts

Christmas Tree Candy Tree (ads here)

http://www.kidsdomain.com/craft/candytree.html

Christmas Tree Lacing Project (includes templates and instructions)

http://www.dltk-holidays.com/xmas/mlacing.htm

Make a Standing Paper Tree

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/crafts/christmas/papertree/

Make a large tree out of Handprints

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/crafts/christmas/handtree/

Pinecone Christmas Tree Craft

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/crafts/Pineconetree.shtml

Christmas Tree from Wooden Ice Cream Spoons

http://www.amazingmoms.com/htm/christmas__stixtree.htm

Popcorn and Marshmallow Tree Recipe

http://freebiesandstuff.freeyellow.com/christmas/christmas-crafts.html

Sugar Ice Cream Cone Christmas Trees

http://www.garvick.com/annual/christmas/xmas-crafts/

Online Activities

Decorate an Online Christmas Tree

http://www.janbrett.com/trim_a_jan_brett_christmas_tree.htm

http://www.santa.net/decorate.html

http://www.madlantern.com/clipart/decorate02.htm

http://www.thejester.co.uk/games/xmastree.asp

http://www.worldofkitsch.com/features/kitschmas2003/treegame.html

For the youngest learners (just click to change colors of decorations on the tree)

http://www.uptoten.com/kids/coloringpage-mixedbag-coloring-christmas.html#The%20Christmas%20tree%20coloring%20game

Interactive Word Search

http://tinyurl.com/4k6z6

Christmas Tree Fonts

http://simplythebest.net/fonts/fonts/christmas_tree.html

http://www.xmasfonts.com/

Christmas Tree ClipArt

http://www.christmasgifts.com/clipart.html

http://www.christmas-graphics-plus.com/free/christmas-tree-clipart.html

http://www.christmas-graphics.com/galleries/trees.html

http://www.madlantern.com/clipart/cindexc.htm

http://webclipart.miningco.com/od/holiday/l/blclip39.htm

Christmas Tree Music (Oh Christmas Tree)

http://www.christmasgifts.com/music.html

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