New Year’s Activities, Ideas and More!

From www.GailLovely.com

Crafts

Crafts from Enchanted Learning

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/crafts/newyear/

Crafts – from Pot Bangers to Journals and a time capsule

http://www.makingfriends.com/newsyearseve_crafts.htm

Activities and Ideas

New Year’s Ideas – from Perpetual Preschool

http://www.perpetualpreschool.com/holiday_themes/newyear_misc__activities.htm

New Year’s Ideas – from Activity Idea Place

http://www.123child.com/winter/newyear.html

New Year’s Ideas – from The Holiday Zone (includes songs and more)

http://www.theholidayzone.com/newyear.html

Make your own Magnet Words for Resolutions (print on magnet sheet)

http://www.homeandoffice.hp.com/hho/cache/698-0-0-225-121.aspx

Background for Teacher to Share

Background about New Year’s including the reason a baby is the symbol of the new year

http://adoptionworld.org/kid/newyear.html

http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/7214/newyear.htm

Lesson Plans (or background for teachers) International New Year’s Celebrations and Customs

http://www.glc.k12.ga.us/builderv03/lptools/lpshared/displayunit.asp?unitid=741

http://teacherlink.ed.usu.edu/tlresources/units/Byrnes-celebrations/topics.html

International Celebrations

Video of 1000 Pipers in Scotland: http://www.hogmanay.net/dook1.htm

Philadelphia Mummers Parade: http://www.mummers.com/gallery/dnnews1.asp

Brief Descriptions of many traditions: http://www.everythingesl.net/lessons/happy_newyear.php

Materials to Print and Use

Tiny Title Book to Print for Students to Write

http://www.billybear4kids.com/TinyTitles/NewYear.html

Small New Year’s Cards to Print and have Students write

http://www.activityvillage.co.uk/new%20year%20mini%20cards.pdf

Mazes and a Word Search to Print

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

E-Cards (or print and color cards) from Crayola

http://www.crayola.com/cardcreator/index.cfm?action=holidays&id=18

Papers to Print and Write Stories, poems or Reports on:

http://www.abcteach.com/MonthtoMonth/January/newyear.htm (with lines)

http://www.abcteach.com/MonthtoMonth/January/newyear1.htm (resolutions)

http://www.abcteach.com/MonthtoMonth/January/newyear2.htm (new year wish)

http://www.abcteach.com/paper/new_year1.htm (Happy New Year without lines)

http://www.primarygames.com/print_zone/stationery/new_year.htm (3-line paper)

Clip Art and Fonts

New Year’s Clip Art (free)

http://www.myfreeclipart.com/newyear.html

http://d21c.com/AnnesPlace/NewYears.html

http://www.kidsdomain.com/holiday/newyear/clip.html (lots of pop-ups)

New Year’s Fonts (free)

http://www.fortunecity.com/skyscraper/dos/1232/fontindex.html (pop-ups here, but good fonts)

 

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