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Thinking sheet · Imagine and invent
Invent a New Holiday
Make up a brand-new holiday: when it is, what it celebrates, the food and the decorations.
- Grades
- 1–5
- Time
- about 25 minutes
- Topic
- Imagine and invent
- Kids practice
- traditions and culture, creative writing, planning
What kids do
“The calendar needs one more holiday. You get to invent it!”
- Holiday name:
- Date:
- It celebrates…
- The decorations
- The special food
- How people celebrate:
How to run it
- Talk about what holidays have in common: food, songs, colors, a reason.
- Holidays can celebrate anything: pets, socks, first snow.
- Vote on one class holiday and celebrate it.
Talk about it
- Why do people have holidays?
- What makes a tradition?
- Which part of your holiday would you look forward to most?
Take it further
Design a greeting card for your holiday.
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