Here’s a list of seasonal arts, crafts, activities, ideas and more for the month of December.
DECEMBER 1
Eat a Red Apple Day
Try this: ► Make an Apple for the Teacher
Pie Day
Try this: ► Painting Sweets
Rosa Parks Day
(Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus on this day in 1955)
Try this: ► Box of Crayons
World AIDS Day
High Five Day
DECEMBER 2
Artist Georges Seurat’s Birthday, 1859
Try this: ► Dot to Dot Seurat
Try this: ► Pointillism Corn
Special Education Day
Try this: ► Visit our Special Education section
DECEMBER 3
International Day of the Disabled Person
Roof-Over-Your-Head Day
Try this: ► Find Architecture Lessons for Kids
First Successful Heart Transplant, 1967
Try this: ► Mosaic Hearts
Try this: ► Heart Mobiles
Try this: ► Heart Blottos
Try this: ► Broken Hearts
Try this: ► I Give you My Heart
DECEMBER 4
Cookie Day
Try this: ► Watermelon Cookie Recipes
Wear Brown Shoes Day
Try this: ► Painted Shoes
Try this: ► Shoe Fish
World Wildlife Conservation Day
Try this: ► Animal Art Lessons
DECEMBER 5
Walt Disney’s Birthday
Volunteer Day
DECEMBER 6
The 13th Amendment (abolishing slavery) was passed on this day in 1865
Mitten Tree Day
Try this: ► Make Snowfolks
DECEMBER 7
KinderArt Andrea’s Birthday!
Cotton Candy Day
Pearl Harbor Day (Pearl Harbor was bombed on this day in 1941)
Letter Writing Day
Try this: ►Help your child learn to write well
DECEMBER 8
Brownie Day
DECEMBER 9
Mathematician Grace Hopper’s Birthday, 1906
Try this: ► Beautiful Numbers
Christmas Card Day
Try this: ► Make crackle cards
DECEMBER 10
Poet Emily Dickenson’s Birthday, 1930
Human Rights Day
Nobel Peace Prize Awarded
DECEMBER 11
Pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock on this day in 1620
Try this: ► Pilgrim Dolls
Noodle Ring Day
Unicef was established on this day in 1946
Mountain Day
Try this: ► Landscape Resist Painting
DECEMBER 12
Poinsettia Day
Gingerbread House Day
DECEMBER 13
Cocoa Day
Violin Day
Hannukah Begins
Hanukkah (Chanuka) is a Jewish holiday celebrating religious freedom. ▼
HANNUKAH MENORAH CRAFT
During this festival, a candle is lit at the end of every day. Traditionally, each candle is placed in a Menorah.
DECEMBER 14
Monkey Day
Try this: ► Monkey coloring page
South Pole Discovered, 1911
Try this: ► Penguin Sculpture
Try this: ► Penguin Coloring Page
DECEMBER 15
Lemon Cupcake Day
DECEMBER 16
Beethoven’s Birthday (born in 1770)
Chocolate Covered Anything Day
Try this: ► Chocolate Spots
Las Posadas Begins
Posadas is celebrated from December 16th to 24th in Spanish and Mexican communities.
Try this: ► Posadas Craft
DECEMBER 17
Maple Syrup Day
Wright Brother’s Day
(First airplane flight took place on this day in 1903)
Try this: ► Transportation Activities
DECEMBER 18
Bake Cookies Day
DECEMBER 19
Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol was published on this day in 1843
Oatmeal Muffin Day
Try this: ► Make Oatmeal Clay
DECEMBER 20
Go Caroling Day
Play a Game Day
Try this: ► Folk Art Checkerboards
DECEMBER 21
Look at the Bright Side Day
National Flashlight Day
First Day of Winter
Try this: ► Winter Crayon Resists
Try this: ► Winter Wonderland Trees
Try this: ► Make Snowflakes
Try this: ► Snowflake Printing
Try this: ► Winter cut-out pictures
Try this: ► Winter Cookie Pops
Try this: ► Color the Snow
Try this: ► Winter Arts and Crafts
DECEMBER 23
Roots Day
Festivus
DECEMBER 24
Apollo 8 reached the moon on this day in 1968
Try this: ► Sculpt a Planet
Egg Nog Day
Christmas Eve
DECEMBER 25
Christmas Day
Christmas is an annual holiday that celebrates the birth of Jesus. Modern traditions have come to include the display of Nativity scenes, Holly and Christmas trees, the exchange of gifts and cards, and the arrival of Father Christmas or Santa Claus on Christmas Eve or Christmas morning. ▼
CHRISTMAS/HOLIDAY CRAFTS
Find over 40 fun and easy Christmas craft ideas for the entire family.
DECEMBER 26
Boxing Day
Try this: ► Make a collage out of used wrapping paper
Kwanzaa Begins
Kwanzaa is a 7 day festival that begins on the 26th of December and it celebrates the ties that bind traditional African customs to the cultural history of African American and Canadians. ▼
KINARA CRAFT
You can make a Kinara (a seven branch candlestick) as a way of celebrating Kwanzaa.
KENTE CLOTHS
Students will learn the history of Ghanian Kente Cloths as they practice using geometric shapes to design their own Kente Cloth strips. From Amy Shapley.
DECEMBER 27
Visit the Zoo Day
Try this: ► Animals Paper Collage
Try this: ► Make animal masks
Make Snowflakes Day
Try this: ► Make snowflakes
Try this: ► Snowflake templates
DECEMBER 28
Chocolate Day
Try this: ► Chocolate Dip Sticks
Try this: ► Nilly Dillyicious Pops
Play Cards Day
DECEMBER 29
The bowling ball was invented on this day in 1862
DECEMBER 30
Let’s Make a Deal Day
DECEMBER 31
Artist Henri Matisse’s Birthday (1869)
Try this: ► Meet Matisse
Try this: ► Shamrocks and Matisse
New Year’s Eve
Try this: ► New Year’s Eve Crafts
CELEBRATE ALL MONTH
December is…
Focus on Art Month
Hello Neighbor Month
Read A New Book Month
Stress Free Family Holiday Month
Safe Toy and Gift Month
Write to a Friend Month
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