Holiday Sites
Know of a site I've missed ? Mail your favorite URL to chris@westnet.com
For those who like MODs, we also have a few Christmas MOD mixes.
New Years Traditions
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New Years Eve Activities:
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For PC Users, we have two Christmas Card programs, one for DOS CGA and one for Windows 3.1.
Now Featuring Christmas Fred. Fred has his own home page.
And for the techies in the audiance, we have our own list of Geeky Holiday Humor.
As part of the special holiday section in the Paperless Guide to New York City, the folks at Mediabridge Infosystems, Inc. are bringing a taste of a New York City Christmas to the World Wide Web. Pages are updated daily to present a different facet of the city.
Papa Bear's Web Advent Calendar: Each day the Bear family receives a card from a relative. By Christmas their wall will be full of cards !
The Bernadotte School has their own advent calandar featuring Christmas traditions from around the world.
Not quite an advent calendar, but still fun, try the Lego Christmas Calendar.
Yahoo has an entire page dedicated to Advent Calendars. In fact, they have a page dedicated to Christmas too.
Yes, Virginia,
There is a Santa Claus.
Card Builder: Send a graphic electronic Christmas card to anyone on the Internet, for free.
Hallmark has their own electronic greeting card site, including animated cards.
Blue Mountain Arts has a great selection of holiday cards and every-day greetings, all for free!
A Card 4 U: Multimedia online greeting cards for holidays, special events, and when you just want to say, "I LOVE YOU". They're fast, they're fun, they're easy and they're free.
If you are planning to celebrate Chanukah, then a great place to start is Chanukah on the Net. It has stories, games, and even spinning dreidels!
Visit Santa at the North Pole, where children of all ages can read stories, print out pictures to color, and write to Santa online!
Christmas.com includes views of
Christmas around the
world and the
Elves In Black: Authorized
by the "jolly far guy" himself, their mission is to protect the Spirit of
Christmas.
Homepage For The Holidays: Stories, games, artwork, recipes, and a guide to Holiday movies. For more on the global holiday spirit, see Yule in Iceland, a veritable smorgasbord of related history, facts and fun - covering everything from origins (a celebration of the winter solstice) to food (enjoy mutton?), with a few songs, stories, symbols and sundry subjects thrown in for good cheer.
Rock Island Technologies presents Simply Christmas, with events in cities around the country, recipies, and classic Christmas literature.
"Not Just for Kids" Christmas Page is a great collection of carols, sites, traditions, stories and poems.
Get into the spirit of Christmas past by going to Britain's Buckingham Gate. It has three terrific articles that reveal the history of the holiday, including links to things like a traditional Christmas dinner menu.
Discover what Christmas is like in other parts of the world with Christmas97.com - images from other cultures, links to other sites, and a Santa chat room.
Interested in egg-nog, elves' fudge, peanut clusters, fruit cake (the good kind) and Santa's Punch? In that case, you'll want to head on over to the collection of desserts, candies and drinks gathered together at the rather aptly titled Christmas Recipes. Or, you could try Mary Mahar's Christmas Recipes, which include Divinity, gravy tips and, of all things, Christmas Soup. Kraft Foods brings your recipies from their Interactive Kitchen. As if that weren't enough, the Vegetarian Society of the UK offers a handful of meatless holiday concoctions. On the menu: "Broccoli Cream Cheese & Pear and Almond Soup." Sound good? Yeah, we thought you'd like it.
Christmas with Reader's Digest:
Recipes, Stories, Craft, Home Projects, and other tips.
Service Merchandise presents Claus.com, with activities and recipes. (Note: This site tends to be slow)
USA CityLink presents A Winter Web Wonderland, with links to holiday information and sites. My favorite is the craft ideas for old AOL disks.
Want to know the difference between a Fraser and a Douglas Fir? The National Christmas Tree Association maintains a trim little site about tree types, their selection and care, and where to find a lot or farm near you.
One of the best all-round Christmas sites is Mike's Old Fashioned Christmas Page. It contains poems, stories, links, and the full text of Clement Moore's "The Night Before Christmas".
Toys for Tots - because "every child deserves a little Christmas."
Sidewalk Santa - after nearly a century outside, Volunteers of America moves Santa and his bell to the web.
Christmas On The Web, featuring free clip-art, music, and links.
150 MIDI files in 1 zip archive, and various images.
My good friend Sandy Roberts has her own page of Christmas Links.
Phil Comeau is a big fan of the movie The Nightmare Before Christmas, and has a site with movies, sounds, and Windows 95 desktop themes.
