Christmas is the day when millions of people around the world celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ in Bethlehem. The first recorded date of Christmas being celebrated on December 25th was in 336AD, during the time of the Roman Emperor Constantine, the first Christian Roman Emperor.
Christmas, which is a traditional holiday in the Christian calendar, has turned out to be one of the most popular festival that fills joy, happiness and love in people’s life. It’s a time the Christian community across the globe expects to be truly filled with the true Christmas spirit.
Many people who celebrate Christmas exchange presents on this special holiday to show loved ones how much they care. According to Billy Graham the tradition of giving gifts at Christmas started after Jesus’s birth, "when a group of wise men from another country sought out the young child and His family. When they found Him, the Bible says", "(...) they bowed down and worshipped him. Then they opened their treasures and presented him with gifts of gold and of incense and of myrrh." (Matthew 2:11)
More information about the history of gift giving at Christmas is available here.
Christmas Around the World - Christmas Culture provides information about Christmas Traditions around the world.
Check out Why is Christmas Day on December 25th? and find out why Christmas is celebrated on this date.
The North Pole Website has a collection of historical Christmas celebrations for many different countries.
Check out The History of Christmas Cards and find out when the custom of sending Christmas cards began.
Check out The Color of Christmas and find out which colors are traditionally associated with Christmas.
Check out Christmas Carols Karaoke and Christmas Song Karaoke and listen to famous Christmas carols and songs.
Check out Christmas in Different Languages and find out how Merry Christmas or Happy Christmas is spoken in different languages from around the world.
A Florida school has a page that provides audio to support to the text giving an overview of Christmas.
Here’s a “drag-and-drop” Christmas vocabulary activity from Visual ESL.
The Beacon Learning Center has a nice story about a Christmas Bear.
MES Games has an online Christmas vocabulary learning activity and game.
Oxford University Press has another Christmas vocabulary game.
What’s Christmas without music? The British Council has a Christmas Song. And, of course, don’t forget about Jingle Bells!
The Busy Elf, an entertaining Christmas song.
Santa’s Little Helper, a talking story.
The Gingerbread Man With Everything lets you create your own virtual…gingerbread man and send or post the link.
Make a snowflake, describe it, and post the link on a student/teacher blog or website.
The History Channel has a site about The History of Christmas.
A series of images from the Sacramento Bee titled Holiday Mail gives us a picture of the holidays through a lens we don’t usually look through.
Scholastic has some nice online Christmas resources.
Here’s a “drag-and-drop” Christmas vocabulary activity from Visual ESL.
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