The holidays are a time for creating moments with the family. Many homeschooling parents choose to take the entire month of December off to participate in holiday events, including the Sparks Academy co-op, but there is a way to incorporate holidays into those school days, and there are many Christmas & Chanukah resources for your holiday homeschool.

Even if you live in a state with strict requirements on hours and subjects, there are ways to be creative! Cooking is home economics; shopping is budgeting and math; writing cards is language arts. Kids in public schools are spending most of the month of December – particularly in elementary grades – doing arts and crafts, and there’s no reason you can’t, too.

Pop over to Homeschool On the Range, not only to explore their Christmas-schooling resources, but to check out the HUGE holiday-homeschool resource round-ups and learn about some exciting new opportunities coming soon for families with middle and high school students...

Christmas School Activity Packs

Use code CHRISTMASSCHOOL to save 20% on all of these resources -- both for Christmas and the New Year! (ends 12/31)

Spanish-English Christmas Carols

Celebrate Christmas and practice your Spanish foreign language simultaneously! These 14 Christmas carols are beautifully printed in both Spanish and English – to help with language learning and for your caroling pleasure.

Home for the Holidays

Homeschool through the holidays with this holiday bundle that includes three full-length history-based holiday unit studies plus several extra crafts and activities! Full length units include: 1940s Christmas, Victorian Age Christmas, and Christmas in England.

Christmas Around the World

Eighteen countries (not including the United States) are addressed in the e-book. It also includes a recommended reading and activities list, cultural movies, and Christmas music from around the world.

Have Yourself a Little Latin Christmas

Get into the holiday spirit while continuing Latin studies with these 22 pages of games, activities, and history! Includes: Crafts, Caroling, Reading, Games, and Puzzles.

New Year Activities

Bricks Through the Year

Celebrate a new holiday each month with your Legos or other building blocks! Each of the twelve unit studies included covers writing prompts, real-worth math, building activities, and art projects. There are also longer essay prompts. This would be appropriate for elementary-aged children, but is made to be tailored for lower middle grades, if desired.

Our Best Year Ever! Planner

The “Our Best Year Ever!” Planner is a re-usable, yearly planner that includes: Month at-a-glance (12), week at-a-glance (reproducible), daily planner (reproducible – 2 versions), schoolwork chart (reproducible), meal planner (12), chore chart (reproducible), unit study guide (reproducible), and a book list for the year.

Celebrating the Holidays through Literature

If your family is anything like mine, you love to curl up and read together…about everything! When they were younger, our boys loved to read about the holidays — everything from stories set during that time to the history and culture of the specific holiday. We hope these book lists help you create memories to cherish through reading…

The History Behind our Holidays

This includes eight holidays, and each unit has introductory text, which will give the student the holiday’s history and customs. After this text, there are featured videos, which augment the background information and help make the topic more accessible for more visual students. You will also find a short list of reading books and fun hands-on activities!