Learn About Holidays For Kids

Learn about holidays for preschool children, kindergarten kids, grades: learn how children there celebrate their birthdays, celebrate all year long with stories, games, crafts and histories of 20 different holidays, discover the Christmas celebrations that take place all over the globe.

Learn About Holidays For Kids

Birthdays Around the World
Click on a country to learn how children there celebrate their birthdays.

Celebrate Holidays
Match the holiday with the month it is celebrated.

Chinese Lantern Festival
Watch this story that tells about the holiday and help prepare by making lanterns and dumplings.

Chinese New Year Games
Get ready for the holiday with Sagwa and friends.

Christmas Around the World
Click the map to discover the celebrations that take place all over the globe.

Diwali
See how this Hindu festival of light is celebrated.

Fireworks Fun
Create an online fireworks show for the Fourth of July.

Groundhog Day Story
Find out what happens every February 2nd.

Halloween at PBS Kids
Build a scarecrow, print out masks, make costumes or write some wacky Halloween stories.

Halloween Pumpkin Patch
Make your own jack-o'-lantern online. Pick your pumpkin, give it eyes, a nose, hat and mouth, then print it out.

Holiday Fun
Celebrate all year long with stories, games, crafts and histories of 20 different holidays.

Holiday Scrapbook
Let Arthur and his friends show you how some winter holidays are celebrated.

Make a Calendar
Practice the days of the week and the dates of this month then create and print your own calendar.

Merry Christmas
Learn how people celebrate Christmas in France, Italy and Germany as well as how they celebrated it in the Untied States in the late 1800s and early 1900s.

Passover Coloring Pages
Print out and color the story of Passover from the birth of Moses to the Seder.

St. Patrick's Day Story
Find a four-leaf clover in this shamrock story.

Valentine's Day
Make a valentine sentence by connecting words and phrases.