Rosh Hashanah
Holidays on the Net: description, traditions, 25 Rosh Hashanah recipes
JOI Edutainment Site: description, stories, traditions, foods, links
The Pedagogic Center: activity ideas for classes. Background info, activities for different age groups for Rosh Hashana, Yom Kippur, Sukkot
Akhlah: traditions, blessings, vocabulary, crafts, worksheets, readings, more.
Academy BJE: What is Rosh Hashanah, symbols, customs, stories & songs, activities, facts, links
Epicurious.com's recipes and tips.
Suggested Children's Books
Columbus Day
Jeanne: wonderful site. Includes pictures, history, links to facts about the voyages, the king/queen of Spain, the Indians
Keith Pickering: The Columbus Navigation Homepage - history, navigation and landfall, picture of Columbus, ships, crew, timeline, bibliography, links to many more sites
Library of Congress exhibit - 1492: An Ongoing Voyage
A&E Television Networks Study Guide: list of vocabulary words, discussion questions, and projects to be used in the classroom
EnchantedLearning.com's Dolumbus Day Crafts: Early Childhood crafts, worksheets, printable books
Core Knowledge unit: A 7-day kindergarten curriculum unit on Christopher Columbus.
Suggested Children's Books
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Halloween
Halloween on the Net: Dancing skeletons, stories, pictures to color, history, music, carve a jack-o-lantern
Absolutely Halloween: 3D paper model of a Haunted House, games, clipart, interactive story, midi files, riddles. From Cathy's Picnic.
Parent Soup: party ideas, recipes, costumes, crafts, safety tips
Grace Sylvan: Halloween Haunt - pictures to color, scary pictures to download, Halloween Tic-Tac-Toe game, Dress A Kid Online Game, word find puzzles, clipart, links
Jeanne: wonderful site, very long. Links to history, haunted house sites, poems, safety tips, stories, party suggestions, pumpkin carving tips, clipart, more
EnchantedLearning.com's Halloween Crafts: Early Childhood crafts, worksheets, printable books
| Billy Bear: haunted house, maze, adopt a Candy Corn Critter for your webpage, carve an online pumpkin, Bobbing For Apples game, Witch's Wart Game, food treat ideas, send an email card, print party invitations or stationary, decorate a Tshirt or bag with apumpkin picture, mazes, pictures to color, links, clip art
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BillyBear's paperdoll and Halloween costumes. Also paint the doll and costumes online and then print.
Skeletina: Gayle Broadbent's Halloween paperdoll plus outfit. Also a witch.
Making Friend's Halloween paperdolls: download 15 paperdolls and their costumes - monsters, clowns, witches, bats, super heroes. Also Halloween Crafts.
All Recipes Halloween Hints: party & costume ideas, story of jack-o-lanterns, treats plus Halloween Cookies.
Sewing.org's Trick or Treat bag. Also Halloween capes, wizard hat & cape, Spooky Soft Pumpkin.
edHelpers.com's Halloween Worksheets, crosswords, and wordsearch links
Isabelle on Halloween: Kwei-lin Lum's Halloween paperdoll plus outfits
Joan Walsh Anglund: Halloween paperdoll plus outfits from jrpinky_boi's Paper Doll Set.
About.com's Halloween free crochet patterns
Suggested Children's Books
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Boo Who?: A Spooky Lift-The-Flap Book by Joan Holub, 1997
Crafts For Halloween by Kathy Ross, illus by Sharon Lane Holm, 1994
Five Little Pumpkins by Iris Van Rynbach, 1995
Froggy's Halloween by Jonathan London, illus by Frank Remkiewicz, 1999
Haunting on a Halloween: Frightful Activities for Kids by Linda White, illus by Fran Lee, 2002
Illegally Easy Halloween Costumes for Kids by Leila Peltosaari, 2001
Make Your Own Halloween Fun by Walter Foster Publishing, 2000
Make Your Own Haunted House With 36 Stickers by Cathy Beylon, 1995
The Night Before Halloween by Natasha Wing, illus by Cynthia Fisher, 1999
175 Easy-To-Do Halloween Crafts by Sharon Dunn Umnik, 1995
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Halloween Clipart
Tori Claybourne's Night: Dark and Spooky Graphics.
The Kid's Domain's 7 pages of Halloween clipart, plus links
Celeste Mookherjee's October Holiday Graphics. Also downloadable file.
awesomeclipartforkids.com's Halloween Clipart
Duncan McAlpine's Pumpkin Clipart
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Halloween Recipes
Recipe Source: 49 Halloween recipes
Ghastly Goodies: The Mining Company's recipes such as Wormy Apples, Graveyard Dessert, Broomstick Cake, Hobgoblins' Mud Pie, and many more. Also Halloween Recipes.
HauntedHalloween.com
Ghoolish Treats
Some Fun Recipes
Kraft Foods' Draculicious Recipes from their Halloween Tricks and Treats
Creepy Halloween Cuisine: recipes such as Vampire Fangs in Blood, Brain Surgery Salad, Spaghetti & Eyeballs, Werewolf Claws, and more
Alicia's Country Kitchen
Halloween Recipes Index
Epicurious.com's recipes and tips
Thanksgiving
My own wordsearch puzzle using 10 vocabulary words from Marc Brown's Arthur's Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving on the Net: story of Thanksgiving, music, stories, crafts, recipes, pictures to color, turkey info, history, crossword puzzle, movies.
| Billy Bear: pictures to color, online games, mazes, crossword puzzle, crafts, clipart, links |
The Kid's Domain's Happy Thanksgiving: software, clipart, pictures to print & color, crafts, mazes, turkey tales, riddles & jokes, links
Virtual Tour of Plimoth Plantation. Also the history and people of Plymouth, MA
Jeanne's Happy Thanksgiving
EnchantedLearning.com's Thanksgiving Crafts: Early Childhood crafts, worksheets, printable books
Bethany Roberts's Thanksgiving Fun For Kids: crafts, recipes, games, activities, songs, poems, more
Fourth World Documentation Project: introduction for teachers, Plymouth Thanksgiving Story, Iroquois Thanksgiving Prayer, Indian corn, recipes, story of corn husk doll
Idea Box's Thanksgiving: Early Childhood crafts, activities, games, recipes
edHelper.com's Thanksgiving worksheets, crossword and wordsearches. Build your own.
Eduplace.com's Thanksgiving Activities.
About.com's Thanksgiving crochet patterns.
| An American Thanksgiving: Facts about the Mayflower Compact, the peace treaty with Massasoit, the First Thanksgiving Proclamation, Washington and Lincoln's Thanksgiving Proclamations. Teacher's lesson plan, recipes, story of the corn husk doll, bibliography, info about Indian corn, Rosie's Alpha-chick alphabet poem/storybook, turkey hunt, songs/music, poems, Sammy the Turkey Snake storybook, links. |
Pilgrim and Native American paperdolls and outfits from makingfriends.com: b/w or color. Also Thanksgiving crafts
Suggested Children's Books
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American Family of the Pilgrim Period Paper Dolls by Tom Tierney, 1987
First Thanksgiving by Linda Hayward, illus by James Watling, 1990
Giving Thanks: The 1621 Harvest Feast by Kate Waters, photos by Russ Kendall, 2001
If You Sailed on the Mayflower in 1620 by Ann McGovern, illus by Anna DeVito, 1993
On the Mayflower: Voyage of the Ship's Apprentice & a Passenger Girl by Kate Waters, photos by Russ Kendall, 1999
The Pilgrims' First Thanksgiving by Ann McGovern, illus by Elroy Freem, 1993
The Plymouth Colony (We the People) by Andrew Santella, 2000
Sarah Morton's Day: A Day in the Life of a Pilgrim Girl by Kate Waters, illus by Russ Kendall, 1993
The Story of the Pilgrims by Katharine Ross, illus by Carolyn Croll, 1995
Tapenum's Day: A Wampanoag Indian Boy in Pilgrim Times by Kate Waters, photos by Russ Kendall, 1996
Thank You, Sarah: The Woman Who Saved Thanksgiving by Laurie Halse Anderson, illus by Matt Faulkner, 2002
Thanksgiving Day by Gail Gibbons, 1998
Thanksgiving Day (Holiday Histories) by Mir Tamim Ansary, 2001
Three Young Pilgrims by Cheryl Harness, 1995
Turk and Runt by Lisa Wheeler, illus by Frank Ansley, 2002
The Very First Thanksgiving Day by Rhonda Gowler Greene, illus by Susan Gaber, 2002
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Thanksgiving Clipart
The Kid's Domain's Thanksgiving Clip Art
akidsheart.com Thanksgiving clipart, stationary, greeting card, screensavers
Awesome Clipart: Thanksgiving Clip Art
Bobbie Peachey's links to Thanksgiving clip art. From the Mining Company
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Thanksgiving Recipes
Good Housekeeping: Thanksgiving recipes. Also pg.2
Women's Day: Thanksgiving recipes
Epicurious Food's: recipes and tips
Butterball's Holiday Guide: menus, turkey, gravy, stuffing, dessert, leftovers, more
All recipes's Thanksgiving Recipes: 17 categories
Veggie's Unite!'s vegetarian Thanksgiving Day recipes
Rosie Winters' The Thanksgiving Feast: links to over 10 Thanksgiving sites
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Skeletina: Gayle Broadbent's Halloween paperdoll plus outfit. Also a witch.
My own wordsearch puzzle using 10 vocabulary words from Marc Brown's Arthur's Thanksgiving