Holidays and Other Special Days (Even Today)

Contains links to sites related to calendars, including celestial calendars, calendars used around the world, calendar software, holiday information, and information about a particular day in history.

Candlegrove's Ancient Origins of the Holidays

http://www.candlegrove.com/home.html

Provides resources and links about Solstice, Sacaea Saturnalia, and Yule.

Chanukah

http://www.his.com/~chabad/8days/chanu57.htm

Provides resources and links for Chanukah.

Christmas

http://www.christmas.com/

Provides information, activities, and links on Christmas and other seasonal celebrations.

Christmas

http://www.teelfamily.com/activities/christmas/

Provides crafts, activities, stories and links for the Christmas season.

Christmas Around the World

http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/lesson041.shtml

Provides resources and links on Christmas, particularly appropriate for K-12 educators and students.

Christmas! Christmas! Christmas!

http://www.night.net/christmas/

Provides resources and links on Christmas.

Christmas In CyberSpace: A Christian Perspective

http://www.njwebworks.net/christmas/

Contains links to Christmas resources dealing with the spiritual side of the holiday.

Christmas on the Net

http://www.holidays.net/christmas/

Provides sacred and secular resources for the Christmas season.

Christmas On the Web

http://freeman.sob.tulane.edu/webfest/xmas.htm

Contains links to Christmas resources.

Christmas 'round the World (Wide Web)

http://www.auburn.edu/~vestmon/christmas.html

Provides resources and links for Christmas.

Christmas with Reader's Digest

http://christmas.readersdigest.com/

Provides resources and links for Christmas.

Clip Art of Romance

http://www.bizart.com/valentine/index.html

Provides free Valentines clip art and contains links to other Valentines Day and clip art resources.

Crafts for the Holidays

http://www.mothers-home.com/activities/sherri2.htm

Provides instructions for simple crafts. Explore the rest of this site as well for more treats.

Everything About Kwanzaa

http://www.tike.com/celeb-kw.htm

Provides information about Kwanzaa.

Fabric Link's Halloween Costume Closet

http://www.fabricLink.com/Closet.html

Provides instructions and safety/flammability tips for several costumes, and contains links to other costume resources.

Festival of Light

http://festival.chabad.org/cgi-bin/chanukah.cgi

Provides information, stories, activities, games, and other resources for celebrating Hanukkah.

Halloween

http://www.mindspring.com/community/featurepgs/halloween97/

Provides information and amusement for Halloween, beginning with detecting if there is a ghost inside your computer. Also contains links to other Halloween sites.

Halloween Costume Page

http://members.aol.com/nebula5/hallocst.html

Contains links to resources on making, renting, or buying Halloween costumes, and also to other Halloween sites.

Halloween on the Web

http://www.halloween.com/

Contains links to Halloween resources in a variety of categories.

Halloween Tricks and Treats

http://www.night.net/halloween/

Provides recipes, songs, stories, poems, activities, and other resources and links for Halloween.

Hannukah

http://www.jajz-ed.org.il/festivls/hanuka/index.html

Provides information, activities, and links on Hannukah.

Happy Christmas

http://www.happychristmas.com/

Provides resources and links on the humorous side of Christmas.

Haunted America

http://www.hauntedamerica.com/

Provides resources and links on Halloween.

Holiday Links

http://members.cyberz.net/jkeepes/holiday.htm

Contains links to a variety of graphic and clip art resources for various holidays.

Holiday Traditions from Around the World

http://www.landsend.com/spawn.cgi?hody/HODYMAP&GRAPHIC&NODEEVNT0197&0880906522211

Provides audio and text holiday greetings from around the world.

Holiday Village

http://www.worldkids.net/art/ace/

Provides graphics for a variety of holidays.

Holidays on Kate.net

http://www.kate.net/holidays/

Provides resources and links for several holidays.

Holidays on the Net

http://www.holidays.net/

Provides resources for many holidays from several traditions.

Holy Christmas

http://www.rockies.net/~spirit/sermons/christmaspage.html

Provides resources and links for Christmas.

Independence Day - 4th of July

http://usacitylink.com//usa/

Provides resources and links for Independence Day.

Kids Easter Links

http://www.e-znet.com/kids/EasterLinks.html

Provides resources and links for Easter.

Kwanzaa Information Center

http://www.melanet.com/kwanzaa/

Provides information, activities, and links for Kwanzaa.

Kwanzaa Time

http://www.itskwanzaatime.com/

Provides resources and links on Kwanzaa.

Merry Christmas from KIWI

http://www.usacyber.com/Christmas/

Provides resources and links for Christmas.

Multi-Cultural Calendar

http://www.kidlink.org:80/KIDPROJ/MCC/

Provides a searchable database for finding information about holidays around the world. Includes indexes by month, holiday, country, and author, and allows keyword searches.

My Holiday Place

http://www.myholidayplace.com/

Provides resources and links for Christmas.

North Pole's "HO! HO! Hotline!"

http://members.tripod.com/~mrsclaus/index.html

Provides stories, carols, crafts, and other resources for Christmas.

Origins of Halloween

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/5452/hallorig.html

Provides an essay on the origin of Halloween with links to related resources.

Religious Christmas

http://www.execpc.com/~tmuth/st_john/xmas/home.htm

Provides scripture, sermons, essays, art, music, drama, and more on the spiritual side of Christmas.

Santa

http://www.santas.net/welcome.htm

Provides resources and links related to Christmas.

Santa Claus

http://www.santaclaus.com/

Provides a list of Christmas books, craft instructions, humor, recipes, and other resources for Christmas.

Santa Claus Office

http://www.santaclauslive.com/

Provides resources from Santa Claus Village in Finnish Lapland, where Santa Claus lives.

Santaland

http://www.santaland.com/

Provides a variety of Christmas resources, including nostalgic glimpses into Christmas seasons in previous decades.

Santa's Favourites

http://www.santas.net/favorites.htm

Provides the songs, stories, movies, recipes, games, and other items reported to be Santa's favorites.

Santa's Secret Village

http://www.northpole.com/

Provides activities, information, recipes, and links for children on the secular side of Christmas.

Santa's Village

http://www.claus.com/

Provides information and activities on the more secular side of Christmas.

Search for the Meaning of Christmas

http://techdirect.com/christmas/cele2.html

Contains links to resources on Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa.

Summary of Common U.S. Holidays

http://visionary2000.com/holidays/

Provides summarized information about holidays commonly celebrated in the United States.

Symphony of Friendship

http://www.mandala.co.jp/B9/P00E.html

Provides the illustrated story of a Japanese custom of playing Beethoven's Ninth Symphony at Christmas.

Thanksgiving

http://www.teelfamily.com/education/thanksgiving.html

Provides information, activities, recipes, and links for Thanksgiving.

Thanksgiving

http://www.wcsu.k12.vt.us/~wardsboro/thanks.htm

Contains links to resources about Thanksgiving, including holiday traditions, history, and activities.

This Day in History

http://www.historychannel.com/thisday/

Provides information about events on any day of the year from the History Channel.

Today-in-History

http://www.scopesys.com/today/

Provides information on historical events and birthdays that occurred on this date. Also provides access to search for any particular day of year and garner the same type of information.

Top Ten Christmas at Peggie's Place

http://www.peggiesplace.com/Christmas.htm

Provides resources and links for the Christmas season.

Twelve Days of Christmas

http://www.cvc.org/christmas/12days.htm

Provides the history of the Twelve Days of Christmas song, plus the humorous thank you notes to the gifts [a cleaner version than the one that many of us are acquainted with].

Variations on a Theme

http://santasworkshop.debateusa.com/twashumo.htm

Provides several humorous variations to The Night Before Christmas.

Virtual Haunted House

http://www2.ncsu.edu/ncsu/cep/ligon/haunted96/haunted96.menu.html

Provides resources and links for young adults on Halloween.

Wilstar Holiday Page

http://wilstar.net/holiday.htm

Provides resources and links for several popular US holidays.

Winter Web Wonderland

http://usacitylink.com/xmas/

Provides resources and links related to Christmas.