It's the holidays and holidays are a time for family. The kids are home from school. Mom and Dad have taken a few days off. It's a great time!
... except, when you want to sneak away for some last minute Christmas shopping or some much-needed quality time with your mate. Then you've got to find a way to entertain the kids.
I thought I'd help you out with this giant list of activities and puzzles.
Note: Always supervise your kids when they are online. Caution kids to never give out personal information.
Here's the list: 
- Photo Ornament Crafts from HP. Put on your own tree, or give as gifts.
- About.com's Christmas Puzzles for Kids. Great puzzle tips from the master of puzzles at About.com.
- Kaboose's Christmas Activity page. Look for cookie recipes and crafts.
- Christmas Crossword from Surfing the Net with Kids. See how good your kid's vocabulary is.
- Christmas Play Space at Eclectic Kids. Learn and play at Eclectic kids.
- Global Goodwill Holiday Project from Scholastic. Your kids will learn about holidays around the world.
- Chirstmas Trivia from Vocabulary.com. Interesting trivia games, you may be tempted to play too.
- Wilstar Christmas Word Search Puzzle. I love word searches.
- Virtual Snow Globe from the Clean Home Journal. It has penguins!
- Free Christmas Coloring Sheets from Free Stuff 4 Kids. Kids love to color.
- DLTK's Chrismas Activities. A bunch of Christmas things to do.
- Christmas Sugar Cookie recipe from National Geographic Kids. Great for quality time with the kids.
- TheKidzPage Christmas games. There's hours of fun here.
- From Children's Author Jan Brett, Hedgie's Holiday Workbench. Show your kids this site, then get them to read a Jan Brett book.
- History.com's Christmas Page. Great educational site.
- Christmas fun at Apples4theTeachr. A great site with lots of activities.
- Christmas at TheHolidaySpot. The kids will have fun here.
- Christmas eCards from Yahoo!kids. The kids will love sending cards to all of their friends.
- Preschool Coloring Book's Christmas coloring pages. More coloring fun!
- Christian Christmas coloring pages also from Preschool Coloring Book. Coloring pages with nativity scenes.
- AmazingMoms.com Christmas crafts. Kids love crafts.
- Christmas jigsaw puzzle from PrimaryGames. This puzzle is addictive.
- Where's Rudolph? also from PrimaryGames. Your kids can find Rudolph and save Christmas.
- BlackDog Activity Page. There's lots of animation on this home page.
- BillyBear4Kids Activity Page. A page filled with kid's activities.
- A Kid's Heart Activity Page. Kids and adults may like these activities.
- Kids' Turn Central Activity Page. More fun and games.
- Merry-Christmas.com activities. Great group of activities.
- Christmas games from Miniclip. My kids love this site.
- Christmas at kinder planet. Online games for kids.
What about you? Do you have a favorite activity to keep the kids busy?
Leave a comment and let us know.
I also have a TON of Christmas and year round printable activities at my site (www.printables4kids.com) - from coloring pages to word searches, mazes and more.
Great list!
Posted by: Char | December 21, 2007 7:39 AM | Permalink to Comment