Festivals
- A calendar of British holidays in the UK
Dates of all the major festivals, with useful links.
http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/[customs]
- Advent Calendar
Open a page a day until Christmas Day - but no peeking!
http://projectbritain.com/Xmas/calendar/
- Chinese New Year
Find out all about the history, the celebrations, the food and the ceremonies.
http://[chinese_new_year].html
- Christmas Carols
Lyrics to many well-known Christmas carols.
http://www.carols.org.uk
- Christmas Customs
Find out about lots of customs from around the world, play games, download colourings and learn about the story of Christmas.
http://www.whychristmas.com
- Christmas at Activity Village
Christmas colouring pages, word searches and crafts.
http://www.activityvillage.co.uk/christmas_pages.htm
- Christmas at Woodlands School
Christmas jokes to tell.
http://www.woodlands[/customs/Xmas/]jokes.html
- DLTK's Chinese New Year Crafts
Colourings, recipes and things to make.
http://www.dltk-holidays.com/china/index.htm
- Earth Calendar
Celebrate every day! A calendar of holidays and celebrations around the world. You can search by date, religion or country.
http://www.earthcalendar.net/index.php
- Halloween Fun
Masses of ideas and downloads for maximum Halloween fun.
http://www.1halloween.net
- North Pole
Send a letter to Santa, play games, download colourings, do wordsearches. There are Christmas recipes and stories to read and listen to. Check out Santa's list to see if you are naughty or nice!
http://www.northpole.com
- Poppy Day
Why we celebrate Remembrance Sunday and why poppies were chosen as the emblem of the British Legion.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A653924
- Religious Festivals of the World
Find out about Christmas, Diwali, Ramadan, Vaisakhi, Id ul Adha, Hajj, Yom Kippur, Raksha Bandhan, Rosh Hashana, Easter and Hanukkah.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/[cbbcnews/hi/newsid_1650000]
- Remembrance Day
Find out about how we commemorate Poppy Day every November.
http://projectbritain.com/Remembrance.html