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• Have students write about their snowman’s character traits. Think, if this snowman were to come alive like Frosty, what would his/her character traits be?
• Have students measure their snowman and work on using ratio to scale their snowman up or down.

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• Have students expand on their knowledge of Polar Bears and have them research what the consequences of the extinction of polar bears will be. How will it affect the arctic? How will it affect us? How will it affect their food?
• Have students write a story about the following prompt: “You went camping in Rocky Mountain National Park and run into a bear, but not a black bear, a polar bear. How did a polar bear from the arctic end up in the Rocky Mountains in Colorado?".

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• Based on the background they created, tell a story about how your elf got to that location. Have them use dialogue and a minimum of three characters to tell their story.
• Have students research the history behind Elves and their relationship with Christmas and Santa. Have them create a Google Slides Presentation to share the information they find.

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• Have students figure out how many candy canes Student Council would have to purchase if they got a candy cane for every student enrolled in their school for every day left until break. Once they have their total, have them do some research on how much it would cost to purchase all of those candy canes. Have a competition for the class to see who can find the best deal for student council.

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• Instead of using the virtual snowflake maker, have students create their own snowflake using paper folded with scissors. There are several videos for how to create these, but I have also added a link to the snowflake here.

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• Have students use google drawing to create a diagram that shows the life cycle of a snowflake.
• Have students compare and contrast the two videos that are connected to the two snowflakes that look like this. Both videos are sharing a lot of the same information, but in different ways. What was their favorite video? Was it the information or the presenter. What made them like that video more than the other.

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• Create a padlet for students to post on. Encourage students to find out why stars became something that was used as a tree topper. Have them post what they find on the padlet. If they find the same information that a classmate already posted, have them comment or like that person’s post.

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• Have students open up a Google Draw and create a venn diagram comparing three of the different types of Pine trees that were discussed in the article. Have them find at least 5 similarities and 5 differences for each.

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• Have students journal about how they make new friends. Maybe it was on the first day of kindergarten, but maybe it was when they moved. What social skills do they use?

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• Give students the dimensions of a house and the dimensions of a string of lights. Have them figure out how many lights it would take to have lights running along the entire roof line.
• Have students create a flip video describing the coolest light display they have seen. Make sure they include where they saw it and what exactly made it the coolest.

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• Have students go outside and try to recreate a structure that will trap heat like they learned in the video. Depending on your location, they can use sticks, leaves, snow, etc.
• Have students use tinkercad to create a 3d model of the igloo they would build for themselves if they lived in the arctic. Remind them to use what they learned in the video about structure, stability, size.

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• Have students draw/design a snow sculpture of a symbol they think best represents them. Have them write a poem that describes why the snow sculpture represents them.
• Have students use the timeline option on padlet to create a timeline of the snowman’s history discussed in the video.

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• Have students research and plan the perfect vacation to go see the Northern Lights. They have to explain how they will get to the location, how they will get transportation while they are there, and where they will stay. They should have a full itinerary and a list of expenses when they are done with their research.
• Have students create a work of art (with paint or oil pastels) inspired by the Auroras. Have them play with colors that are not seen in them to see the impact of those new colors.

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• Have student create a comic strip connecting this story to modern day celebration of Hanukkah and Jewish prejudice.

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• Have students create new illustrations for the story.
• Have students rewrite the story, but have it take place in Summer instead of Winter.

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• Have students play the following Google Form to see what they comprehended from the article.

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• Have students use Kami to find the words used in the article on this crossword.

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• Have students fill out the crossword that was created.

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• Have students research the designs of Unity Cups and then use Google Drawings to design their own Unity Cup.
• If you don’t want them to create their own design, you can have students research the different colors, symbols, materials they are made of and create a Google Slideshow explaining them all.

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• Have students research all the different crazy nutcracker collections there are out there. Have them add the ones they find to a padlet, so students can explore all the discoveries.
• Have students design their own nutcracker inspired by your school mascot.

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• Have students research how “Santa Tracker” started at Norad and how it has evolved into the thing that it is today.
• Have students write a story about Christmas night if the legend of Santa had never been created. What would the night look like?
• Have students figure out how many miles Santa would have to travel if he traveled to every house in their neighborhood using Google Earth. Have them figure out how much time he could stay in each house if he had to reach every house in the neighborhood.

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• Have students use Tinkercad to create their dream decorated living room!
• Have students research how expensive their dream decorated living room would cost if they were to actually create it when they had their own home.

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• Have students research how many live christmas trees are purchased in the USA compared to fake christmas trees. Take a poll of your class and see how many students have a real tree in their home vs. a fake one.
• Poll students to see how many Christmas Trees they have in their house this season? Have students use Google Sheets to create a Graph representing that breakdown.
• Have students use this link to design and decorate their own Christmas Tree.

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• Have students create a venn diagram comparing the number of Christmas songs they can find vs. the number of hanukkah songs they can find.
• Have students brainstorm why there is such a difference in the numbers.

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• Have students create their own Dreidel using this free paper template.
• Have students play the Dreidel game using these instructions. You might want to print out or post these quick reminders.

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• Have students create a Canva presentation about Yule Log and Old Norse Viking Lore around Yule and the Winter Solstice.