December Holiday Scavenger Hunt



December Holiday Scavenger Hunt

Visit the following holiday websites and answer the below questions. Good luck!

➢ Type the answers in a Word Document, and save as Holiday Scavenger Hunt-Last name(s).

➢ Add your name(s) to the top of the Word document.

➢ If a website doesn’t work, or you can’t find the answers look elsewhere on the Internet.

Website #1:

~Read Bobby's Christmas Story and answer questions #1 and #2:

1. What did Santa dress up as to test Bobby?

2. What did the children at the orphanage want more than anything?

3. Visit the holiday crafts page and look at the snowman project. What are the snowballs made of?

Website #2:

4. During Hanukkah, candles are lit for how many days?

5. Hanukkah is the Hebrew term for what?

6. What does Hanukkah commemorate?

Website #3:

7. When is Kwanzaa celebrated?

8. What does the word "Kwanzaa" mean?

9. What does green stand for?

Website #4: Use your Internet searching skills to answer these- (try a new search engine: , , )

10. What is the winter solstice?

11. What does Stonehenge have to do with the winter solstice?

12. What are some ways people celebrate the winter solstice?

Website #5:

13. Visit the Elf School and play a game to earn your Elf School Diploma. Use the snipping tool (click on Start > Accessories > Snipping Tool) to capture an image of your elf diploma. Copy and paste it onto your Word document. (Don’t forget to change the “text wrapping” of the picture).

14. What is the secret elf greeting?

Website #6:

15. What is Santa Claus called in Holland?

16. Does the Holland Santa Claus use a sleigh?

17. In Scandinavia, who brings the Christmas gifts to children?

18. Who is La Befana?

Website #7:

19. What is Christmas called in France?

20. What is a German Adventskranz?

21. In Portugal, people pretend that Father Christmas brings gifts and leaves them either under the tree or where?

Website #8: Use your knowledge and searching skills to locate an online coloring page.

• Color it online.

• Using the snipping tool to capture your coloring page. Copy and paste it onto your typed Word document.

Save the document to your network library folder.

**For more fun, try your knowledge at the Christmas Trivia Quiz**



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