We all love the holiday season. Visits with friends and family, great food, and fun events. However, as the holidays approach, it can be difficult to keep excited children focused on finishing the school semester. If you need something unique and engaging to keep kids learning while incorporating holiday fun, we’ve got a list for you! These are some of our favorite educational holiday resources to use in your homeschooling for the holidays.
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Thanksgiving
While not specifically for Thanksgiving, Music in Our Homeschool offers an online course on Music for Fall Holidays and Special Days. Thanksgiving music is included, as well as other fall holidays such as Veterans Day and Labor Day.
Techie Homeschool Mom offers an online mini-course about Thanksgiving for upper elementary- middle schoolers. This course is one module containing 2-3 hours of activities, so it would be perfect to use one afternoon as a special study!
FundaFunda offers a Pictionary-style game with a Thanksgiving theme. You can play this one afternoon to take a break from school or get the whole family to play together on Thanksgiving! Kid’s can practice their drawing and communication skills, all while having fun together.
Winter Activities
Music in our Homeschool also offers a course covering Music for Winter Holidays and Special Days. The Winter Solstice, Hanukkah, and New Year’s Day are just a few that are studied.
Literary Adventures for Kids offers various online book clubs for children of all ages. Winter is Here and The Snowy Day are two that are perfect for the start of winter. These are both nature-based books clubs, so they give you an excuse to get outside and get kids learning interactively. Activities help increase understanding of the book and teach about nature and seasons through hands-on activities.
Science experiments are a great, hand-on way to hold kids’ attention during science lessons. This list contains experiments specifically for winter. By making the experiments relevant to the current time, you give kids an opportunity to apply their new knowledge in the real word.
Christmas
Study Christmas traditions from around the world to get students interested in social studies! You can do this in a variety of ways. Techie Homeschool Mom offers this unit study that teaches about global Christmas celebrations. You can also find a variety of videos on YouTube aimed towards different ages.
A Christmas study isn’t complete without Christmas music! Music in Our Homeschool offers this course that gives history behind well-known and loved Christmas music. It also talks about different music and traditions around the world, so you can combine it with previous idea to cover social studies and music!
Music in our Homeschool also offers this printable packet that contains worksheets for pre-k to 2nd grade. The sheets have fun, Christmas themes and cute characters to draw your student’s interest.
Literary Adventures for Kids has online book clubs for Christmas books as well! This bundle contains two books: “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” and Mr. Willowbee’s Christmas Tree. When you buy them in the bundle, you get a special discounted price!
FundaFunda offers a unit study on How to Design Digital Gifts. This unit study for 5th – 12th graders, can help improve you students’ computer skills, and they end with several projects to use as gifts for family and friends!
We hope you’ve enjoyed these ideas for homeschooling for the holidays! If you’re interested in more ideas, check out this post on Christmas Activities from Around the World. Thanks for reading and happy holidays!
