abcteach directory

Home >> Shapebooks >> Writing Prompts >> Holidays


Holidays

Item Description
Border Paper: Mother's Day (Primary, Elementary) [member-created with abctools] Fill in the flower-themed border paper (with "Mom" in the upper-left corner) with "top ten reasons why I love my mom".
Border Paper: Dear Mom (elem/upper elem) Lined paper with flowers in the surrounding border and the writing prompt "Dear Mom,..." at the top.
Border Paper: My Mom (elementary) Lined paper with smiley faces in the surrounding border and the writing prompts, "My mom is...! and "My mom is special because...".
Coloring Page: Christmas Ornament [member-created with abctools] A big Christmas ornament with prompts for kids to draw various Christmas-related pictures. These would make a cute Christmas tree bulletin board, or cut out and use as a shapebook.
Shapebook: Christmas - Gingerbread Man (primary) [member-created document] Trace and cut out. This Gingerbread Man-shaped shapebook has prompts for students to answer about a variety of seasonal and general topics. Nineteen pages.
Shapebook: Christmas Is... Trace and cut out. This Christmas ornament shapebook has prompts for students to answer (with pictures or words) about what Christmas is. This makes a nice bulletin board decoration.
Shapebook: The Gingerbread Man (elementary) [member-created with abctools] Gingerbread Man-shaped shapebook with the story starter "If I were the Gingerbread Man I would ..."
Shapebook: Winter Holiday Words (primary/elem) [member-created with abctools]Thirty-two pages of winter holiday-related words. Each word is in a Christmas stocking shape. Cut out and make a shapebook or decorate a bulletin board.



The following documents are available for abcteach members
members.abcteach.com items log in - learn more
Item Description
Acrostic Form: Dad  
Color and Write: E is for Easter A picture of an Easter Bunny holding an egg to color, and six short "E is for..." sentences. The seventh page is an "E is for ___" writing prompt.
Writing Prompts: Christmas (upper elem/middle) Get students writing with these thought-provoking prompts.
Writing Prompt: Dear Mom (elementary) Write a letter to mom with this wide-lined paper with illustrations of flower pots in the upper-right and lower-left corners, and the prompt "Dear Mom..." at the top.
Writing Prompt: Easter (elementary) Eight pages of writing prompts and story starters in an Easter egg shape.
Writing Paper: Halloween - Frankenstein Upper elementary lines; with a Frankenstein's monster illustration to prompt a creative story.
Color and Write: Frankenstein (upper elem) A picture to color and narrow lines to write about Frankenstein's monster.
Writing Prompt: Halloween 1 One dark and rainy Halloween... (lined paper)
Writing Prompt: Halloween (elementary) Two Halloween-themed writing prompts, about trick-or-treating and jack-o'-lanterns.
Writing Prompt: Thanksgiving (upper elem) 2 It would take great courage to leave...
Border Paper: Lucky Poem (elementary) Paper with illustrations of three-leaf clovers in the surrounding border and sentences to complete that will make a poem about luck when finished, such as, "I am lucky when I ___".
Story Planner: Mummy Lined paper with a mummy illustration, and two story planners to help write a fantastic mummy story.
Writing Prompt: My mom is... (elementary) Wide-lined writing paper with the prompt "My mom is..." at the top and "Love," at the bottom.
Writing Prompt: New Year's Resolutions (elem/upper elem) Write down your resolutions for the New Year.
Writing Prompt: Thanksgiving - Turkeys 1 Once upon a time, there was a turkey who never...
Writing Prompt: Christmas (elementary) Choose characters, settings, and conflicts from the pictures, and then build a story around them. A fun creative writing exercise.
Color and Write Prompt: Yom Kippur (primary) A picture to color and space to write a very short story with Yom Kippur-theme words from a Word Bank. With primary lines. Yom Kippur is October 9th in 2008.
Shapebook: Thanksgiving - Turkey "T is for turkey..." Trace and cut out. This turkey-shaped shapebook has five pages of short turkey-related prompts.
Writing Prompts: Thanksgiving (upper elementary) "Why do you think people are so generous and caring at Thanksgiving?" Five pages of thoughtful, Thanksgiving-related writing prompts on narrow-lined paper.
Story Planner: Great Pumpkin "Josh and his friends grew the biggest pumpkin..." A writing prompt and two story planners to help write a great pumpkin story.
Writing Prompt: Thanksgiving (elem) 4 The people who came over on the Mayflower ...
Think and Write: Pumpkins (elem/upper elem) Pumpkins in transformation, pumpkins in space, pumpkins in advertising. Fantastic pumpkin-themed creative thinking and writing work for elementary/upper elementary students.
Writing Prompt: Thanksgiving - Turkeys (upper elementary) "The turkeys were nervous the week before Thanksgiving..." Lined paper with an illustration of turkeys at the top and a writing prompt.
Writing Prompt: Thanksgiving - Turkeys 4 There were turkey feathers in the barn, but...
Writing Prompt: Thanksgiving (elementary) "On Thanksgiving Day, it is traditional in my family to..." Narrow-lined paper with this prompt and an illustration of a turkey at the top.
Writing Prompt: Thanksgiving (elementary) My favorite Thanksgiving memory is...
Writing Prompts: Christmas (upper elem/ middle) Five narrative prompts and five expository prompts, all with a Christmas theme.
Writing Prompts: Christmas (primary/elem) Five expository and five narrative prompts, all with a Christmas theme.
Writing Prompt: Thanksgiving (elem) 1 The Pilgrims had a feast on the first Thanksgiving...
Writing Prompt: Thanksgiving (middle) 1 Many Pilgrims came to America because they wanted to live in a way they weren't allowed to live in England. How important is lifestyle to you?
Writing Prompts: Thanksgiving (middle) 1-4 Four of our upper elementary/middle school writing prompts/discussion topics in one place. Thought-provoking Thanksgiving writing prompts.
Writing Prompt: Thanksgiving (middle) 2 Would you be willing to leave your home...?
Writing Prompt: Thanksgiving (middle) 3 When the Pilgrims came to the New World...
Become an abcteach member to access the items above. learn more


Try these links too

Site Description
Sites For Teachers Check out these excellent education websites.




Become a Member:
Join
Site License
Renew

Free Newsletter Only:

Your email address:


Stay current with abcteach