Christmas Resources

General

• NORAD Tracks Santa 2009
  Watch NORAD (North American Aerospace Defense Command) track Santa’s sleigh this Christmas Eve.
• Northpole.com
  A child-safe, award-winning holiday site, Northpole.com celebrates the holidays with dozens of activities for children and families. Read some Christmas stories, visit Mrs. Claus' Kitchen for some yummy Christmas recipes, or visit Santa's Mailroom to send a letter to Santa.
• Better Homes & Gardens: Christmas
  Includes gifts and decorations as well as food and entertaining.
• Christmas Time
  You’ll find lots of information here about virtually every aspect of Christmas, including Christmas Stories and Poems, Christmas History and Traditions, and Christmas Music.
• How Christmas Works
  Answers some common questions about Christmas.

Christmas Recipes

• Christmas Recipes
  The Internet's most complete selection of trusted Christmas recipes and advice - including fruitcake, fudge, and Christmas cookie recipes.
• ChristmasCookies.com
  This site includes over three hundred recipes for Christmas cookies. Also included are a recipe exchange and recommended Christmas cookie cookbooks. Site is keyword searchable and recipes may be browsed by type of cookie or country of origin.
• Epicurous: Christmas
  This website offers articles and recipes from Gourmet and Bon Appetit magazines.
• Land O'Lakes: Christmas
  This butter manufacturer offers 366 recipes for Christmas.
• BBC Lifestyle: Christmas
  This British site includes recipes for turkey and goose, Edible gifts, Christmas lunch, Festive baking, Veggie Christmas, Vegan Christmas.
• Christmas Recipes
  Recipes and tips that are guaranteed to knock your stockings off for Christmas. From the Television Food Network.
• Mexico Connect: A Christmas Kitchen
  A selection of recipes for Christmas.

History of Christmas

• Victorian Christmas
  Travel back in time to the Christmases of yesteryear with this website. It contains information on Victorian gifts, crafts, decorating, entertaining and more.
• The History of Christmas
  From the History Channel: links to stories and tales of Christmas.
• The History of Christmas
  Includes information about the pagan origins of Christmas as well as the Christian ones. Also has a small section on traditions in other cultures.
• The Many Faces of Santa
  Who is Santa Claus and where did he come from? A short history of the legend of Santa Claus and a description of the many other names he is known by in other cultures.
• Candlegrove.com
  Read about the origins of Yule, Saturnalia, and Solstice celebrations

Christmas Stories and Poems

• A Child's Christmas in Wales – Dylan Thomas
• Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol
  Read the original Christmas classic.
• The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame.
  The children’s classic. Read Dulce Domum, the Christmas chapter.
• The Gift of the Magi - O. Henry

Christmas Crafts and Activities

• Christmas Activities.Com
  Listed are links to a range of coloring pages and Christmas crafts.
• Christmas Craft Projects
  Try these free Christmas craft patterns and projects. Make a variety of Christmas related items such as wreaths, santa, trees, ornaments, coloring books, and more.
• Holiday Fun Printable Activities
  From Kids Domain, links to printable puzzles, coloring pages, and activity sheets for Christmas. There are additional links for Winter, Chanukah and Kwanzaa.

Christmas Around the World

• Christmas Traditions Around the World - Find out the unique ways people all around the world celebrate Christmas.
• A Celebration of Christmas in the Czech, Bohemian and Moravian Tradition
• Christmas in the Slovak and Carpatho-Rusyn Tradition
• Yule in Iceland
  Read about the history and traditions of Christmas or "Yule" in Iceland, including the legend of the sinister and gargantuan Yule Cat who eats lazy people.

Christmas Carols

• Christmas Carol Lyrics Page
  Christmas carols are always great for getting into the Christmas spirit. But have you ever forgotten some of the words to your favorite carol? This site has the lyrics for many traditional and more modern carols.
• The Huron Carol
  All about our own Canadian Christmas Carol.
• Christmas sheet music
• Christmas carols for piano
• Christmas carols for guitar

Christmas Flora and Fauna

• Notes on a Holiday Deer
  Are reindeer and caribou the same thing? What are the differences between these two animals? Find out in this article from Alaska Science Forum.
• Rangifer tarandus (Caribou)
  Find out more information on these beautiful animals.
• Christmas Plants
  Find out more about Christmas Trees, Holly, Ivy, Mistletoe and others. From the Royal Botanic Gardens.
• Poinsettia Resource Center
  This site gives the history of the colorful Mexican plant (Euphorbia pulcherima), including its former medicinal and ceremonious applications, and its current commercial and Christmas ornamental value. There are also tips on selection, care, and how to encourage re-flowering.

Snow

• Electron Microscopy Unit Snow Page
  What does snow really look like, anyway? Check out the fascinating electron microscope images of snow crystals.
• SnowCrystals.com
  Caltech's webpage includes information about the physics of snowflakes, snow crystals, and other ice phenomena as well as some beautiful pictures of snowflakes.

Other Links

• Yes, Viriginia, there is a Santa Claus - read the editorial first printed in the New York Sun in 1897 in response to a letter from an eight-year-old girl.
• Bah, Humbug, Virginia!
  For a discussion of the scientific reasons Santa cannot possibly exist.
• Christmas Urban Legends
  The site offers over two dozen Christmas legends and myths, including Jesus' birth date, the number of wise men, the accepted meaning of the Immaculate Conception, the origin of the Yule log, the symbolism of candy canes, Christmas cards, Boxing Day, and more, while discrediting some commonly accepted Christmas news stories.

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