Christmas Around the World Activities: Netherlands Research Project

Are you looking for Christmas Around the World Activities? This Christmas Research Project provides a meaningful way to explore how Christmas is celebrated in the Netherlands. Your students will build essential reading and writing skills as well as learn all about Dutch Christmas traditions, customs, foods, and celebrations. The structured activities will encourage independent inquiry and thoughtful documentation.

Students will explore how Christmas is celebrated in the Netherlands through the following activities;

• a classroom scavenger hunt to collect facts and document them in recording sheets

• flipbook & interactive notebook tasks to collate research information

• writing templates to record the most popular tradition

• Boom Cards with audio support to gain further information

The activities in this pack are ideal for December lessons that are purposeful, curriculum-aligned, and still wonderfully festive.

Items Included

• 16 scavenger hunt fact cards on how Christmas is celebrated in the Netherlands

• Recording Sheets x 2 to document learning

• Answer Key for teacher/student reference

• Writing Templates x 32 featuring Christmas images (display on bulletin board)

• Flipbook Templates x 4 pages on facts collected (may be used as INB templates)

• Banners (plain & Decorated) to display with students' work

• Boom Digital Cards (with Audio) x 34 to assimilate information

Parts of the Flipbook - Interactive Notebook

• Cover Page x 8 options

• Country (Netherlands)

• Festive Food

• Custom & Traditions

34 Boom Digital Cards (with audio)

• Students will read information cards on how Christmas is celebrated in the Netherlands

• They will answer multiple-choice questions

• Audio support is included for students who need additional reading support

• Students will build a snowman as an interactive activity as they read