Heather's Happy Holidaze for Kids Only
Ten-year-old Heather designed this web page to help children celebrate holidays throughout the year. Here kids can share holiday activities, recipes, parties, coloring pages, games, and fun with other kids. Kids can meet other kids and talk about pets, school, sports, and other interests. The site is monitored by adults to keep it family-friendly. http://www.heathersholidaze.com/

Happy Holidays!
December is filled with holidays and fun. This website helps visitors celebrate Christmas, Hanukah, Kwanzaa, and the Winter Solstice. Here you can get icons and clip art for a variety of December holidays; and there are coloring pages for kids, craft projects, and seasonal recipes. Learn about Christmas traditions in England, France, Germany, Mexico, and Sweden, and the history of Christmas in United States. Poetry, stories, and humor help bring in the season along with "A Multicultural Silent Night" and "Olive, The Other Reindeer".

Operation Military Pride
If you would like to send holiday cheer to U.S. soldiers, sailors and airmen away from home, you can find contact information for them here. There are suggestions for what to include in care packages for overseas shipments. You can also find out how to donate to the effort or offer volunteer help in your local area. http://www.geocities.com/operationmilitarypride2000/com.htm

Castle Arcana Christmas Calendar
Counting the days until Christmas? The Castle Arcana Christmas Calendar celebrates the season by delighting web surfers with classic holiday images, animations, and stories revealed day by day throughout the month of December. The calendar is based on the traditional advent calendar in which Christmas scenes are revealed one day at a time by opening small windows on the card and seeing what is behind them. Here you can roll the cursor over parts of the picture to light up each day's scene. Clicking on the lit up scene brings additional pictures and stories. You can visit the page each day to see a new part of the calendar appear. There are also Flash animated Christmas cards: a dancing snowman, a musical Christmas tree, and a scene with snow falling. http://www.castlearcana.com/christmas

DGreetings.com Greeting Cards
DGreetings (short for "digital greetings") is the ultimate electronic greeting card site. Here you can send free email cards for personal special occasions and a wide variety of holidays around the world. There are over 10,000 cards in more than 500 categories, including many animated and musical cards. For example, in addition to birthday, graduation, and get well cards, there are cards to send when a friend gets a new job, is unemployed, quits smoking, and many other occasions. Holiday cards include such diverse international occasions as April Fool's Day, Anti-Racism Day, Best Friends' Day, Buddha Jayanti, Doctors' Day, Dragon Boat Festival, Earth Day, Eating Day, Hiroshima Day, Holocaust Day, Hot Dog Day, Monsoon, Income Tax Day, and St. Patrick's Day. If there is a holiday you don't see listed, you can probably find it with the search engine. You can personalize each card by choosing background and type colors, adding a text message, and so forth. You can program the card to be sent to one or more recipients, and to go out on a specified date up to 90 days later. So you can program your greetings in advance and avoid the holiday rush! http://www.dgreetings.com

Halloween Hall @ Caryn.com
Here's an extensive guide to fiendish fun on the Web this Halloween. Here you'll find witchy wonders, haunted houses, ghosts, boo-tiful books, scary stories, Halloween hangouts, horror-ble movies, party and pumpkin ideas, disgusting-looking recipes, Halloween Web rings, vonderful vampires, Halloween costumes for humans and dogs, and ghoulish graphics. The site's slogan is "No Tricks, Just Treats!" http://www.caryn.com/holiday/caryn-halloween-hall.html

Castle Arcana Ghost Book and Graveyard
Castle Arcana offers "click-or-treating" for Halloween. Read here about the Registry of Unstable Burials; learn about the history and customs of Halloween; and enjoy a "Flash" dance with skeletons and witches. There are plenty of true ghost stories here, and you are invited to share your own. http://www.castlearcana.com/halloween

Mother's Day at Biography.com
"If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all!"; "Don't talk with your mouth full!"; "Always put on clean underwear, in case you're in an accident." Visitors to this site will find such helpful motherly advice, along with other features in celebration of Mother's Day. Read the history of Mother's Day from the annual spring festival the Greeks dedicated to Rhea, to the story of how the holiday was established in modern times. A spotlight on 100 famous moms includes Mary of Nazareth along with political moms, royal moms, athlete moms, mothers of sextuplets, and notorious moms like Ma Barker and Oedipus' mother.
http://www.biography.com/features/mother

Resolutions! Free New Year's Resolution E-Mail Reminder
Have trouble keeping your New Year's resolutions? Here you can sign up for a free reminder service, so at least you'll remember what they were. A reminder will be emailed to you every two weeks throughout the year, with selected Internet links and tips aimed at helping you meet your chosen goal. There is even a program that helps you keep track of your own personal goals and progress. The website itself has helpful links to Internet resources, message boards, and encouraging words for many of the common resolutions (e.g., losing weight, stopping smoking, being a better person, etc.). The online store has calendars, videos, and books related to personal improvement; you can also sign up a friend for the free service.
http://www.hiaspire.com/newyear/

Seattle Children's Online Store
At the online store of the Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center in Seattle, you can do some holiday shopping while helping a good cause. The store has gifts, clothing, marketing and specialty items, and children's safety products (like bike helmets) at good prices. Money raised goes into a fund to pay for medical care that families cannot afford. The site is available in both text-only and frames versions.
http://www.seattlechildrens.org

Christmas98 - The Total Guide To Christmas Online
This holiday website has ideas for gift giving; recipes; gift baskets; holiday decorating and party ideas; and family fun. Visitors can send digital cards, post a greeting, visit the "North Pole," or send a letter to Santa. Learn about holiday traditions like eggnog, lighted trees, caroling, and the holidays of Chanukah and Kwanzaa. The Christmas events and entertainment section lists films, TV specials, and books. There is a list of charities where you can donate to make the holidays a little more special for someone else. And if you're going away for the holidays, look here for discount airfares and travel planning.
http://www.christmas98.com

The Netique Internet Gift Boutique
This website features elegant gifts for holidays and special occasions. As a plus, the Netique site also offers useful information on gift-giving customs, including corporate gift-giving and international gift-giving. Not sure what is an appropriate gift for an Asian client? Attending a party given by a South American hostess? Refer to the article on international gift-giving customs to avoid a cultural faux pas. Then you can shop for gifts from various countries, holiday and anniversary gifts, baby gifts, corporate gifts, food gifts, computer and office gifts, home and kitchen gifts, pet gifts, wedding gifts, and more. As a one-stop shopping service, Netique also wraps, prepares handwritten cards, and ships.
http://www.netique.com

Personality Creations Christmas
Visit this site for a Christmas feeling, with snowflakes, ribbons, holly, and reindeer. Get holiday recipes, craft ideas, Christmas stories, and a kids' coloring book to bring in the holiday spirit. You can download words and MIDI files for many of your favorite Christmas carols, and maybe find something you're looking for in the gift shop. In addition, there are important holiday safety tips.
http://www.personality-creations.com

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