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 The holidays listed below are on several different pages. You may be directed to a different page when you click on a particular holiday.

 

August and September

Back to School  All back to school links are here 

Labor Day

Labor Day Crafts

Why Do We Celebrate Labor Day?

Labor Day Kids Crossword

Labor Day Kids Word Search

Labor Day Printables

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Happy Grandparent's Day Classroom Banner     (3 pages)

Grandparents are Grand Banner (3 1/2 pages)

Happy Grandparent's Day Poster to Color This poster has a place for the child to draw a portrait of himself and they will color the words also

Hand in Hand Activity  Several neat suggestions for using the grandparent's and child's handprint

Grandparent's Day Activities A variety of crafts and activities here from DLTK

Printable Grandparent's Day Book from Enchanted Learning

Print Grandparent's Bookmarks This is from billybear4kids.com

National Grandparent's Day Site 

A Grandparent's Day Assignment Some great ideas here

Grandparent's Day Crossword Puzzle

Grandparent's Day Theme This is from abcteach.com

Grandparent's Day Thumbprint Banner

Grandparent's Day Printables

More Grandparent's Day Ideas You'll find projects, grandparent's certificates, bookmarks, and postcards to e-mail at this site

Grandparent's Day Crafts and Cards from Enchanted Learning

Forget-Me-Not Nursing Home Visitation Project

A Song for Grandparent's Day

Ten Ways to Celebrate Grandparent's Day

 

  Fall

Bulletin Boards , Doors, and Room Decoration

Fall Bulletin Boards (8 pages of ideas with pictures)

Scarecrow Door Idea 

Large Scarecrow Poster to Print (9 sheets) Instructions for assembling posters are here

 

Fall Sticker Chart  Use leaves, pumpkins, or scarecrow stickers on these incentive charts (two to a page)

 

 

Fall Doors and Halls These are from boardsgalore.com

A Harvest of Blessing Scroll down to Fall

Fall Bulletin Board The Harvest is Plenteous

Building a Tree Leaf by Leaf

Fall Bulletin Boards Ideas for fall bulletin boards 

Awesome Autumn Banner  (3pages) Use this banner as a bulletin board header or on a door with fall pictures, leaves, or fall crafts

Fall Fun Banner (3 pages) Use as a bulletin board header or on door with leaves or pictures

Autumn Banner A colorful Banner from Sparklebox

Fall Music Bulletin Boards

Crafts and Coloring

Paper Plate Scarecrow Craft

Scarecrow Coloring Page

 

Scarecrow Puppet Children can color the scarecrow How to make the puppet

 

 

 

Squirrel and Acorns Coloring Page

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Make an Owl Puppet  Amy Glassenberg says            " These were easy to put together - construction paper triangles and circles for the face, button eyes, furry felt bellies and pipe  cleaner feet, and fall leaves for wings." This puppet is from Amy Glassenberg's blog

 

 

Paper Plate Scarecrow

Dishcloth Scarecrow

Fall Hat This is an easy craft idea (If you can get the paper bags). If I did this with kids, I would not paint the bag but would leave it the natural color. If you don't have fall leaves, print out leaf patterns and have the children paint or color them. Leaf Pattern

Autumn Woven Placemat

Autumn Treasures Craft ideas from Family Fun. Cool crafts that incorporate leaves, flowers, sticks, and more

A Leaf in Time Craft If you live where the leaves change color, this is a great craft for you

Beautiful Fall Leaves Craft

Fall Coloring Pages Some nice fall pictures at this site

Making Friends.com Fall Crafts A variety of fall crafts at this site

Leaf Wreath Craft

Other Fall Activities

Journey North Tick Tock: Biological Clock

Experiment Pumpkin Seed Six activities with pumpkins and pumpkin seeds involving tallying, weighing, graphing, and more (from abcteach.com)

Fall Poem Form(from abcteach.com)

My Pumpkin Patch Writing Worksheet (lower elementary)

Full Sized Graphic of Four Seasons

What Causes the Seasons? Choose beginner, intermediate or advanced

The Seasons From BBC

Fall Jigsaw Puzzle (54 pieces) 

Fall Jigsaw Puzzle (150 pieces)

Autumn Leaves (72 pieces)

 

 

Apples

Apple Theme/Unit Great apple ideas here

Apple Calendar Numbers These are very nice and are from thevirtualvine.com

Johnny Appleseed Paper Bag Puppet

Johnny Appleseed Coloring This is from dltk

Johnny Appleseed Hidden Pictures

Story of Johnny Appleseed

Color a Basket of Apples

Color Apples A variety of apple pictures at Coloring Book Fun

Clay Pot Apple Craft

Apple Awards from Alenka's Printables. These could be printed on magnetic sheets or cardstock

Apple Book Cover from Alphabet Soup and Apple Shape Writing Paper

Good Apple Award from Alphabet Soup

Homemade Applesauce Cook in class in a crockpot on low for several hours. It smells wonderful!

Apple Activities from abcteach directory

A is for Apple Apple ideas from kinderkorner

Apple Activities and Links If you are doing an apple theme, this page has all of the links you'll need

Harvest Party Ideas

Apples and Health Information about apples and why they are good for you

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October

Clergy Appreciation Month

Three Cheers for Pastor A puppet play from Christian Crafters. *We had a group of young people do this as a skit at a pastor appreciation dinner.

Eight Ways to Encourage Your Pastor

Article by Mark Creech An excellent article about honoring our pastors

Can the Sheep Save Their Shepherds? Article by Lynn Cryderman

Be a Barnabas to Your Pastor An article by Kathy Widenhouse

Top Ten Ideas for Clergy Appreciation Month by Diana Davis

Thank You Pastor Poster (pdf)(One page 8.5X11 inches) Open and print from a web page

Thank You Pastor Greeting Card (pdf. file)Print this card and let you child or Sunday School class write a special thank you to their pastor *You'll need the free Adobe Reader to view and print the pdf. files

Thank You Pastor Banner (pdf. file) (three sheets - trim right edge of first two sheets and glue or tape together)Have the children color in the letters. You could glue pictures the children make to each end to make a colorful and longer banner (For a full color banner go here) *You'll need the free Adobe Reader to view and print the pdf. files

Thank You Pastor Bulletin Board (header) Use this header or the larger one above. Put a photo of your pastor and add the things you are thankful for such as teach, preach, pray, visit, encourage, and  evangelize. Back each word with colorful cardstock or paper.


Pastor Appreciation Gifts

Thanksgiving (Canada)

Happy Thanksgiving Canada Thanksgiving history

Canadian Thanksgiving

Maple Leaves Turkey Craft

Paper Bag Scarecrow

Annie's Canadian Thanksgiving Page

Bountiful Harvest Wall Hanging From Crayola

Go here for more Thanksgiving links

How Much do You Know About the Canadian Thanksgiving? A true or false quiz

Photos of Autumn in Canada

Find turkey crafts, bulletin boards, banners, and coloring here
 

Columbus Day

Columbus Shape Book or Coloring Page

Columbus Word Search (15 words)

Columbus Day Word Search Puzzle

Columbus Day Activities

Make a Columbus Timeline

Columbus Day Tag This sounds like an interesting game. It requires some pre-game planning and preparation

Columbus Day and Fall Coloring Scroll to the bottom of the page for Columbus coloring

Columbus Day Coloring

Color a Caravel (A ship like those used by Columbus)

Columbus' Voyage: Map and Ships Craft Ideas

Columbus Day and Other Fall Activities A variety of activities here. There is a Columbus report form, reading comprehension, a Columbus  shapebook, a wordsearch, and crossword puzzle

Columbus Day Lessons and Activities

Halloween

When Good People Disagree Insight into how Christians should deal with controversial topics such as Halloween

Is it Wrong for Christian Families to Celebrate Halloween? Dr. James Dobson's perspective

Halloween for Christians?  Read Gregory Koukl's opinion about Christians and Halloween

Another View About Halloween and Christians

Are Harvest Parties for Christians?

Halloween Ideas for Family Fun Many ideas for things to do. A Kidhelper resource

What to Do About Halloween

  Halloween panels
Have you seen these?
They are great to give out with Halloween candy!

Halloween Lessons Not all ghosts and goblins. Some lessons are about pumpkins, pumpkin seeds, and candy corn.

Roasted Pumpkin Seeds

Follow the Pumpkin Trail  An object lesson from kidhelper.com

Temporary Witnessing Tattoos They are the colors of the Wordless Book

Share God's Love this Halloween

Halloween books and tracts Buy tracts here to share with others on Halloween

 

Reformation Day

Reformation Day  A history of Reformation Day

Words to the first verse of "A Mighty Fortress is Our God" and a picture of Martin Luther. Children can color the title and the name Martin Luther. Click on the picture (pdf file)

 


Print and Color a Picture of Martin Luther

Reformation Day Word Search Find the Reformers in the puzzle

Reformation Day Activities A number of interesting ideas here for celebrating Reformation Day

Reformation Skit  Best for older students

A Unit Study on the Reformation This is from Core Knowledge and is for grade 5

Questions and Answers about Reformation Day

A Mighty Fortress is Our God The words and music are here

Reformation Day This is from sundayschoollessons.com

Luther's 95 Theses

The Life of Martin Luther

John Calvin

Reformation Day October 31st or December 10? An interesting article

606265 Martin Luther: A Man Who Changed the World
By Paul L. Maier, illustrated by Greg Copeland /
Concordia Publishing House

 

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November

Election Lessons

Cyberbee Election Lessons This site covers campaign advertising, candidates, the election process and more. These lessons are geared to older students. There is an elementary section for lower elementary

Who Elects the President?  A fill in the blank  reading worksheet for older students about the electoral college.  The students will choose from words at the bottom of the page

Election Lessons A variety of lessons for different levels here

Piggy Tale Election This lesson is on the importance of voting. The following sites contain teaching information on the two books to compare. The True Story of the Three Little Pigs   Three Little Pigs

Presidential Election Campaign Speeches This lesson is for grades 6-8

Getting Out The Vote A lesson on the importance of voting

Election Results Map Students prepare a map and discuss the popular vote for each candidate in each state

If I Were President Students complete a writing assignment about what they would do if they were president

PBS Kids Democracy Project

Presidents of the United States A government site with information about each president

Presidents of the United States From World Almanac

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Veteran's Day  

Origins of Veteran's Day

Printable Veteran's Day Poster for 2008

Veteran's Day Posters from 1978 - 2007 to download and print

Veteran's Day Reading Comprehension (upper elementary) This is from abcteach.com

Veteran's Day Reading Comprehension (upper elementary) This is from abcteach.com

VA Kids K-5 Facts about veterans, and the flag. Also contains games and activities

VA Kids 6th-12th Grade This site contains games, information about the flag, veterans, as well as volunteer and scholarship information

VA Kids Teachers' Page

Veteran's Day Vocabulary List (with definitions)

Veteran's Day Vocabulary Quiz (based on list above)

Veteran's Day Coloring Page A picture with a poppy wreath and a flag

Veteran's Day Lined Paper with Picture of Flag at the Top (in color)(k-1) (For Grades 2-8 click here)

Arts and Crafts for Veteran's Day

Patriotic Stickers

Veteran's Day Poster

Veteran's Day Word Search from John's Word Search Puzzles

Free E-cards to send for Veteran's Day

*See below for more patriotic activities

U.S. Flag and Patriotic Activity Links

US Flag to Color

Betsy Ross A free script by Warren Saeger

A Red, White and Blue Bracelet Craft

I Am Proud to be an American..,Writing Assignment

Patriotic Crafts from Danielle"s Place of Crafts

Patriotic Songs Fill in the blank. This worksheet is from familyeducation.com (pdf. file)

Star Template

Patriotic Stickers

Also check links under Memorial Day and 4th of July for other patriotic activities and crafts

 

 

Thanksgiving

Audrey's Thanksgiving Page You will find links to coloring, crafts, and more

 

 

  

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