Let’s bring our young learners some Christmas and Holiday cheer. Explore various free online web tools and sites for children to improve their listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills. Young learners can also explore how children worldwide celebrate the holidays, and learn about the traditions of several December holidays. Topics include Christmas, Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, and other December Holidays.
Sites and Apps
- Children can create stories with themselves as the hero, play games, track Santa, and more on the NorthPole site.
- Children can email Santa and will receive an email back from him.
- With this mobile app (iOS) children can call and text Santa and receive messages back. If you have an Android, try this free app to receive calls from Santa.
- Adolescents can chat online with Santa with this Santa Bot.
- National Geographic for Kids has several resources for children to learn how various holidays (Christmas, Kwanzaa, and Hanukkah) are celebrated worldwide.
- Starfall has various holiday related games that teach toddlers and very young language learners pronunciation and phonics.
- Get children sharing their Christmas lists, singing holiday carols in English, and sending holiday voice greetings with these talking apps- Talking Gingerbread Man (iOS/Android), Talking Gremlin (iOS), Playing Santa Claus (iPad/ Android), and Talking Snowman (iOS/Android).
- Children can create and send animated holiday greetings or digital stories with EduBuncee.
- Children can animate holiday characters and send them to friends or family members with Voki. Also find lesson plans to teach students about Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, and Christmas.
- With Fotobabble (web/iOS app) children can upload a picture, add a holiday background and include a special voice message to send to family, friends, or loved ones.
- Children can create holiday themed digital books with Storybird.
- With the Christmas Fun HD iOS app children can join interactive sing alongs, read interactive stories and play dress up and peek-a-boo games.