Do you love to travel during the Christmas holidays? We do! We have celebrated Christmas in 5 countries for the past 13 years, allowing our family to experience how these countries celebrate this special holiday. Kids, in general, love new experiences and enjoy learning how some people celebrate Christmas, their traditions, practices and the foods they prepare on Christmas Day. To make this learning fun, I decided to nake this pack for kids and their families to learn how the following countries observe and celebrate Christmas.
Countries Covered:
- Philippines
- Italy
- Sweden
- United Kingdom
- Russia
- Mexico
- France
- Germany
- Canada
What's Included in Each Pack?
- Each country pack has three differentiated booklets.
- Christmas Country Posters
- Montessori inspired 3 part cards for matching activity (for young students)--> this was just recently added.
- Activity Flipbook for each country
- Fill in the blanks activity booklets
- Description to picture matching cards
- Photo Cards and Research Sheets (for older students)
- Coloring Pages for each country
- FREE GREETING CARDS available only in the BUNDLE
- FREE PASSPORT AND COUNTRY STAMPS available only in the BUNDLE
- FREE CHRISTMAS TREE AND COUNTRY BAUBLES available only in the BUNDLE
How to use this resource pack?
- Print the country pack you want to explore.
- There are 3 types of the reading booklet included for each country. Select the version you want to use and assemble the booklet.
- Print the WELCOME POSTER of the country you selected. Use this as a table or shelf display for presentation.
- Read the country booklet with your child and discuss essential points like how they observe Christmas, their traditions and practices, which part sounds interesting to you, what food would you like to try... etc.
- Alternatively, you can present the concepts without the reading booklet using the 3 part cards or presenting the CHRISTMAS COUNTRY POSTER.
- For extension activities, you can work on the DESCRIPTION TO PICTURE MATCH, FILL IN THE BLANKS BOOKLET, ACTIVITY FLIPBOOK and/or the COLOR THE BW POSTERS.
- [EXTENSION] Use the PASSPORT AND STAMP to mark the country you have already worked on.
- [EXTENSION] Similarly, use the printable CHRISTMAS TREE and the COUNTRY FLAG BAUBLE to mark the country/countries you have already worked on.
Here's the preview:
Philippines
Mexico
Sweden
The Flipbooks
COLORING AND ACTIVITY PAGES (for each country)
The GREETING CARDS
COMING SOON! PLAY PRETEND KITS!
This is new and a major update on the BUNDLE. Each country pack will contain playkits so kids can do play pretend while learning about Christmas traditions of the countries included in the pack. This will be available bye end of November or early December in the BUNDLE. Here's the preview:
The playkits will contain travel brochure, boarding pass, airline ticket, passport, suitcase, map, postcard, clothes and other objects to pack for your destination!
COUNTRY BAUBLES (available in BUNDLE only)
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