Good Housekeeping The Ultimate Kids Christmas Book by Good Housekeeping

What makes Christmas, Christmas for kids? That was the question that the authors of this book asked themselves to kickstart their thinking and they came up with three key elements - festivities. decorations and food.

Created by the editors and Test Kitchen chefs at Good Housekeeping, it begins with a quick trip around the world to discover the ways kids in different countries celebrate the time, including Australia, offering an opportunity for students to share the traditions that make celebrations in their households unique and then this is followed by an advent calendar with 24 suggestions of different activities that could be done each day from taking a walk outside and enjoying what Nature has to offer to creating a Christmas time capsule using memories of the family's favourite moments to be opened in 12 months' time.

There are further chapters that focus on the origins and development of the Christmas tree, hosting a gift swap and many more practical ideas that mean this is the ideal starter resource for Christmas celebrations in the classroom, especially for those students in the 8-12 age range who are a little more independent and demanding something new. Even though many of the activities and recipes are winter-based, even they are an opportunity to explore why so much of what we continue to do here in Australia reflects those northern hemisphere traditions.

Themes: Christmas, Christmas decorations, Recipes, Craft.

Barbara Braxton