3 Holiday Projects

Celebrate the traditional Mexican holiday El Dia de los Muertos! Explore the intricate history behind the traditions, compare other cultural rituals honoring the dead, and create sugar skulls. Learners read informational text on Aztec...

Heed Charles Dickens' warning of misusing one's life from A Christmas Carol and don't miss the opportunity offered by a resource that prepares learners for this epic tale. Packed with information and lesson ideas, the guide offers...

Get in the holiday spirit with a collection of Christmas art projects. Here, scholars have the opportunity to create their own holiday card, decorations, design a party poster, build a model castle, make an advent calendar, and bake...

Students use Publisher in this lesson to make a holiday flier. In this technology lesson, students create a holiday flier. Students choose fonts, use clipart, use grammar and spelling check, and save to their work to a flash drive or...

Family traditions help to instill personal values, social norms, and the warmest of childhood memories. Elementary and secondary learners share their favorite family traditions with a fun diorama project. Using modeling clay, they create...

Students create a holiday card using computer software.  In this computer card making lesson, students design an original holiday card using a variety of tools.  Students navigate the software utilizing various tools.

Students create a holiday ornament. In this Keith Haring art lesson, students use paper mache to make 3-dimensional ornaments that resemble his work. Students cut out felt shapes of babies, dogs and angels then sew them together and fill...

Learners investigate the holiday of Easter by performing a creative project. They use paper plates in order to create some colorful egg shaped designs that can be displayed in the form of a bulletin board.

Students create art projects with different purposes--for personal expression, for theater, and for historical presentations. This site contains several highly creative plans which can be modified for different needs and grade levels.