WestNet's Holiday Page
Christmas | Hanukkah | New Years | Greeting Card Sites
As always, our Holiday Pages will be updated until January 1st, so keep coming back for more! Or, if you have a suggestion for a link, send a message to staff@westnet.com
It's also possible to hear streaming Christmas music over the Internet. Several sites are using streaming MP3 to bring you holiday music 24 hours a day. You will need an MP3 player such as WinAMP for windows, or mpg123 for Linux. You can search the following sites for currently broadcasting stations:
Now Featuring Christmas Fred, a Windows desktop buddy. Fred has his own home page.
And for the techies in the audience, we have our own list of Geeky Holiday Humor.
Jim's Christmas has 250 MIDI files in 1 zip archive, and various images.
One of my favorite Christmas songs is I Want A Hippopotomus For Christmas. It's on a Dr. Demento CD, and was even sung on an episode of Ally McBeal (yuk). This song now has it's own FAQ, describing it's origins and where to get sheet music.
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.
Christmas At The White House: See the White House decorations, includeing a tour by Barney the Bush's dog.
Christmastime Celebration: A large collection of lyrics to carols, with Real Audio and MIDI clips scattered throughout the site. Also has a wonderful clip art section - all brought to you by the Osmond Family.
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.
Toys for Tots - because "every child deserves a little Christmas."
Santa's Parent Helper: is here to help parents prepare for and celebrate the Christmas season with their children. You'll find some craft ideas and projects as well as mazes and word puzzles to keep those active hands busy. These projects are good for two to five or six year olds.
Now in its 10th season, Holiday Express is an all-volunteer, nonprofit, nonsectarian organization delivering music, toys, clothing, food and fun to children with cancer, people living with AIDS, the mentally ill, disadvantaged families, the isolated elderly and the desperate homeless.
Sidewalk Santa - after nearly a century outside, Volunteers of America moves Santa and his bell to the web.
The Bernadotte School has their own advent calendar featuring Christmas traditions from around the world.
Yes, Virginia,
there is a Santa Claus.
NORAD Santa.org: NORAD tracks Santa's journey via satellite. Come view images, sounds, and movies of his journey.
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 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.
"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 Christmas99.com - images from other cultures, links to other sites, and a Santa chat room.
Christmas with Reader's Digest: Recipes, Stories, Craft, Home Projects, and other tips.
Service Merchandise presents Claus.com, with activities and recipes.
USA CityLink presents A Winter Web Wonderland, with links to holiday information and sites. My favorite is the craft ideas for old AOL disks.
Bill's Antique Christmas Light Site: Bill really likes old Christmas light sets. Many of these I recognize from my Grandparents' house. One, the ring of lanterns, I still use on my tree. Christmas On The Web, featuring free clip-art, music, and links.
Mary Mahar's Christmas Recipes, which include Divinity, gravy tips and, of all things, Christmas Soup. Kraft Foods brings your recipes 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.
And finally, we have Christmas Recipe.com
JCN's
Hanukkah Page has it all, including a "Hanukkah How-To" and Virtual
Dreidel!
Chanukah - Hanukkah where tradition and eclectic never came together so nicely...
Join chanukah98.com for the
lighting of their WWW menorah.
chanuka.com includes the WorldWide Judaica Store, and the WorldWide JewishWeb.
Sympatico helps to celebrate the Festival of Lights with its Happy Hanukkah! site.
Visit Virtual Jerusalem - Chanukah Megasite, which includes the Kotel Kam, a live camera trained on the Western Wall, and much more!
The Project Genesis Chanukah Page provides historical, philosophical, and practical information on Chanukah, the Festival of Lights.
Of course, the biggest celebration of New Years is at Times Square, but aside from a few thousand people, who is crazy enough to GO there ?
NewYears.com Got plans for New Year's Eve? This site does !
ClubNYC Guide to New Year's Eve Parties - for the where and when of what's going on
Hogmanay! The Scots at New Year
