Everything for Christmas: Holiday Customs, Stories, Decor, Recipes, Gifts, Crafts, Cards

Find everything you need for Christmas holiday fun right here: Christmas decorations, greeting cards, printables, coloring and clip art, Christmas party games, ornament crafts, stress-relief tips, yummy Christmas recipes, and much more.

Holiday Season Articles

Make it a "Green" Christmas This Year
The Classic Beauty of Victorian Christmas Decorations
Homemade Ornaments
Make a Special Gift

country christmas tree

Crafty Christmas Decorations

Advent Season

Christmas Chalkboard Print Pillow by GIFTSBYHEATHERMYERS

Funny Penguin Gift Wrap - Let It Snow!
by imagefactory

Holiday De-Stressing Tips for Kids

The holiday season can be a hectic, stressing time not only for adults, but also for children: lots of driving around town in traffic jams; schlepping through overcrowded shopping malls; giving up your room for out-of-town relatives who emit a funny smell. Yep, it can be a difficult time.

Read this list of tips to keep your little ones, and yourself, calm and comfortable during the holiday season.

Sights & Sounds of Christmas

Extreme Christmas Lights
No matter what the weather in your town, you can view hundreds of outdoor home holiday lighting displays at this very cool web site! santa claus and reindeer clip art

Christmas Fun

Mom's Letter to Santa
NORAD - the American and Canadian military organization responsible for aerospace defense of the United States and Canada - tracks Santa's global progress on Christmas Eve each year.

2004 marked their 50th anniversary reporting on Santa's flight 'round the globe on Christmas, and they continue the tradition every year on Christmas Eve.

Click here to visit NORAD and learn about Tracking Santa's annual voyage this Christmas from your home computer this year!

Santa Claus Letters

Send a Letter to Santa at the North Pole

Mail holiday letters by December 10.
Santa letters must arrive in Fairbanks by December 15 to make sure they can return to your child on time for the holiday. HO! HO! HO!

The US Postal Service offers these tips on sending kids' letters to Santa - you can even get a reply to your child - with a North Pole postmark - if Mom or Dad help to address and stamp the letters, and if they enclose a reply letter in a self-addressed stamped envelope.

Place the reply letter inside a sealed and stamped envelope addressed to the child, then put that envelope into a larger envelope and mail it to:

NORTH POLE CHRISTMAS CANCELLATION
Postmaster
5400 Mail Trail
Fairbanks, AK
99709-9998

Printable Santa letter stationery sheets.

More Christmas city postmarks - click here

Christmas Customs From Around the World

December is a time of holidays around the world. Learn how people in many countries celebrate Christmas (and other December holidays) in this interesting article about holiday customs and cultures.

Click here to read Christmas 'round the World

Christmas fun box gift set
Christmas Fun Box - $14.95
from: Dover Publications