Join us for the 2023 Holly Jolly Holiday Connection – a simple project we created to connect you with other students and teachers while generating some holiday spirit. This will be the 4th year we’ve hosted this project and we are excited to see the greetings start rolling in from different places!
Our goal is to celebrate diversity and connection, while sharing greetings and learning about the different holidays people celebrate in our local and global communities. Whatever your traditions and celebrations are, you are welcome to participate.
The Holly Jolly Holiday Connection involves 4 easy steps:
- Create a holiday greeting card (on paper or digitally)
- Share your holiday greeting on our Padlet board
- Read greetings from others
- Feel the joy this holiday season!
We want to make this easy and fun for students and teachers. We’ve set up the Padlet digital bulletin board and we will moderate posts there. We’ve got detailed instructions for how to participate with your class and we’ll send you tutorials for how to design digital holiday greetings and how to post to Padlet. Sign up below to get all the details sent right to your inbox!
Listen to this podcast episode for more details on how to participate and why we think you and your students will benefit from the project. OR Read on for more details!
Creating a Holiday Greeting
You might create one greeting with your whole class, create greetings with small groups of students or have each student design their own. Some ways you might create a holiday greeting could be:
- a digital greeting card image
- a message typed right onto Padlet
- a message written during shared writing (just snap a photo to share to Padlet)
- a greeting written/drawn on paper and then photographed to share
- a slide deck with greetings from each student
- an audio recording (can be recorded right in Padlet)
- a video greeting (can be recorded in Padlet or imported)
The possibilities are endless – do what is fun and accessible for you and your students!
5 Tools to Create a Digital Greeting Card
- Canva
- Google Slides
- PowerPoint
- Seesaw
- PicCollage
Each of these tools gives your students options for creating a digital card and then downloading it as an image file. The image file can then be posted to our Padlet board to share with others. Don’t worry -we’ll walk you through the steps if you need any support!
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