Christmas around the world crafts
Christmas Around the World: Traditions, Crafts, Recipes
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Christmas around the world is celebrated with such fascinating, distinct traditions! From carp in the bathtub, popping crackers at the dinner table, to piñatas and pig roasts: learn how each country celebrates this important Christian holiday. Click on the pictures below to learn how 31 different countries celebrate Christmas, including their traditions, yummy recipes, customs, and unique activities.
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Las Posadas Bilingual Minibook
Learn even more about Christmas in Mexico! In this bilingual Spanish-English minibook, kids will get a feeling for how Las Posadas is celebrated at Christmas in Mexico. It’s a great project for school or home use. Las Posadas is a beautiful cultural tradition that is both unique and festive!
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So many distinct and beautiful traditions, recipes, and crafts for Christmas around the world! Do you have a favorite tradition that we missed? Let me know in the comments and I will try to include it! 🙂 I am con
9 Christmas Crafts from Around the World
Take your kids on a celebration of Christmas around the world with these nine amazing crafts from different countries.
The gift of Christ is for everyone—everywhere. And on Christmas Day in almost every country around the world, the human race stops—if only for an instant—to give homage to the humble Savior who was born in a stable.
Since that blessed day in Bethlehem, people around the world have developed their own rituals and traditions to celebrate Christmas Day. Your children can learn about and sense God’s heart for people everywhere as they make these crafts from around the world. (Instructions and materials listed are for one child only.)
9 Christmas Crafts from Around the World
Christmas Craft #1: Nativity Ornament
Christmas in France means the Nativity scene or creche. At Christmastime, churches and homes display the manger scene to remember the birth of Christ. In the community and in homes, children gather to sing and pray around the creche. In Marseille, they even have the famous Santon Fair before Christmas. (A santon is a little clay figure used in a creche.) Children can make this aromatic creche ornament,
Holidays Around the World Crafts for Kids in 2025
These holidays around the world crafts are perfect for elementary students to create in December for many reasons. First, they align with the cultural traditions that they learn about in a holidays around the world unit of study. They work for a Christmas around the world unit too! Second, they are very simple to assemble. You’ll be able to squeeze them into the school day easily.
If you are an elementary teacher, you know that December is a tricky month for instruction. Students are thinking about their Christmas lists, family traditions, and holiday celebrations with loved ones. Keep your kids engaged throughout the month of December through a holidays around the world unit. This allows you to tie in a highly engaging topic with your standards and curriculum. This topic lends itself to interactive, hands-on learning experiences that your students will love. The holidays around the world crafts below are a great example of that. Check them out below!
Christmas Around the World Crafts
Below are some Christmas around the world crafts for kids.
Australian Christmas Craft
The craft idea below is perfect for a Christm
Celebrate Christmas around the world with these done-for-you activities and crafts! The
included lesson plan
shows includes which
books to read
, a full class
anchor chart activity
, and
two independent craft templates
for your students. It's the perfect addition to your holidays around the world celebrations!
First students learn about Christmas traditions from all over the world using the
interactive anchor chart activity.
Then they practice what they've learned using the
matching cut and paste craft
. There's also a
Christmas tree craft
with decorations from around the world to cut and paste! The
templates are print and go
to make your teacher life as easy as possible.
Plus, a
done-for-you lesson plan
provides book suggestions & lesson ideas to make your Christmas Around the World planning a whole lot easier!
⭐️ Christmas Around the World Anchor Chart -
Includes Digital and Printable Templates
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Christmas Around the World Cut and Paste Craft -
Printable Template with Teacher and Student Directions
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Christmas Tree Decoraitons Craft -
Printable Template with Teacher and Student Directions
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Lesson Plan -
Including Companion Book Suggesti