2025 EduGuardian Advent Calendar
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Aileen Wallace
Curiousity Crusader
The countdown to the holidays can be chaotic, but this 5min activity from Curipod will engage your entire class, and you don't have to be a tech wizard or an art teacher to set it up!
Getting Festive with Curipod:
- Click "New from Blank" in Curipod
- In the AI chat box ask it to create a festive drawing challenge. Try something like:
- Add a voting challenge where students draw their favorite winter celebration... or
- Add a voting challenge where students design a festive scene.
- Wait less than 60 seconds while Curipod works its magic.
- Click "Start Lesson" and watch your students get creative!
Bonus tip: adding anonymous voting means even your quietest students will join in, and there's something brilliant about seeing a classroom genuinely excited about drawing and sharing their ideas!
Get started with Curipod here!
Dave Hinrichs
Adoptable Allies
Surfing Sentinel
Have your students joined the Junior EduGuardians yet? If not, this is a great time to introduce them. And just like students can become EduGuardians, so can pets. All around the world, countless animals are waiting in shelters — Heroes in Waiting — hoping to find their EduGuardian companions.
This Christmas season, try a fun activity that lets students practice creativity, empathy, and storytelling while helping a Hero in Waiting find their people. Create a trading card for an Adoptable Ally and help them become the hero they were meant to be.
Steps to Create Adoptable Allies
- Search for a local shelter with a gallery (example)
- Students download a pic of an adoptable shelter hero
- Students open the Adobe Express Pet template
- Add the actual pic to the circular image area
- Use generative AI to turn the pet into a cartoon-style superhero (tip: use the one there as a reference image)
- Add text and share!
Adobe Pet Template
Junior EduGuardians
Alyssa Faubion
Farmer Faubs
Today's Advent surprise brings a cozy trio of Book Creator adventures. These books offer opportunities for students to flex their creativity, reflect with seasonal SEL prompts, and demonstrate learning progression. Whether your students are styling their Grinch, or writing letters to the elf, these activity books are a joyful way to spark creativity and keep skills shining!
How To Use:
- Click the link or the picture
- Click on a book in the library
- Click remix this book to add to your own library
- Copy from your library to your class and assign to students
Remixable Holiday Bookcreator Activities
Laurie Guyon
Smile Gadget
Need a cheerful holiday boost for your classroom? This December Hour of Code calendar is packed with more than 40 ready to try activities that bring coding to the classroom! From Grinch coding to Bee-Bot adventures, it is a joyful mix of winter fun your students can jump into all month long.
December Hour of Code Calendar
- Click the link or the photo to open
- Pick an icon, click, and explore the activity
- BONUS TIP: Check out the pages panel at the bottom to explore earlier calendars and even more themed collections!
Michelle Manning
Access Avenger
Winter Riddle Rooms
Celebrate the season with Winter Riddle Rooms that turn learning into a playful puzzle adventures. You get everything you need to host the fun without any stress with pre-made riddle rooms, and you also get materials to help you build your own riddle rooms for any topic. A perfect mix of mystery, creativity, and winter cheer, these riddle rooms are sure to become a seasonal go-to in your room every year!
What's included:
- ready to play riddle rooms for various subjects & grades
- templates & response sheets so you can create your own
- drawing sheets
- SO MUCH WINTER FUN!
Barbara Bray
Story Weaver
Create a Calm Down Star
Many students get anxious during the holidays, and this tip can help them use self-regulation for those strong feelings. Just seeing their calm down stars can help students remember to pause, breathe slowly, and share their feelings. Creating a room full of beautiful, unique student stars is also a wonderful classroom decor idea for the holidays that can mindfully guide your students this season.
Creating Your Calm Down Star
- Trace a star on paper and color it your favorite color.
- On each point of the star, write or draw something calming (i.e. breathe, stretch, hug, etc.)
- Decorate the star with glitter or stickers and add your name on the back.
- Cut out your star. Keep as a reminder or use to decorate the classroom.
Calming Star Pattern
Patrick Vernon
Zeitgeist Sentinel
Bring some holiday spirit to your classroom with this fun meme activity. Students love creating memes, and this template makes it easy to turn seasonal moments or end of the term reflections into creative fun! Use the meme bank included on the template to get started fast or let students choose their own images, then watch as they connect learning to humor in a way that keeps engagement high this season!
Creating your own meme activity:
- Open the meme generator template (see left)
- Pick an image from the bank or upload your own.
- Add text that connects to your lesson or theme
- Save and share your class creations
Activity template
Additional bank of images
Idea credit:
Ditch That Textbook
Jennifer Ives
Edventure Maven
A True Santa-ty Saver
Need a little classroom calm this holiday season? This simple pin prick picture craft is a quiet time miracle that gives students a creative outlet while giving you a few peaceful moments to breathe. With a coloring page they generate in Adobe Express and a bit of focused pricking, the final glowing artwork looks magical in your windows. It is low prep, high engagement, and the silence feels like a gift all on its own.
How to Use
- Students generate a coloring page in Adobe
- Print the page and attach it to construction paper
- Students use a push pin to prick along the lines of the image
- Remove the top page and hang the construction paper in a window for a glowing reveal
Click to unwrap the full story and detailed directions
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2025 EduGuardian Advent Calendar
10
11
13
12
15
20
18
19
14
17
16
24
23
21
22
Aileen Wallace
Curiousity Crusader
The countdown to the holidays can be chaotic, but this 5min activity from Curipod will engage your entire class, and you don't have to be a tech wizard or an art teacher to set it up!
Getting Festive with Curipod:
Bonus tip: adding anonymous voting means even your quietest students will join in, and there's something brilliant about seeing a classroom genuinely excited about drawing and sharing their ideas!
Get started with Curipod here!
Dave Hinrichs
Adoptable Allies
Surfing Sentinel
Have your students joined the Junior EduGuardians yet? If not, this is a great time to introduce them. And just like students can become EduGuardians, so can pets. All around the world, countless animals are waiting in shelters — Heroes in Waiting — hoping to find their EduGuardian companions. This Christmas season, try a fun activity that lets students practice creativity, empathy, and storytelling while helping a Hero in Waiting find their people. Create a trading card for an Adoptable Ally and help them become the hero they were meant to be.
Steps to Create Adoptable Allies
Adobe Pet Template
Junior EduGuardians
Alyssa Faubion
Farmer Faubs
Today's Advent surprise brings a cozy trio of Book Creator adventures. These books offer opportunities for students to flex their creativity, reflect with seasonal SEL prompts, and demonstrate learning progression. Whether your students are styling their Grinch, or writing letters to the elf, these activity books are a joyful way to spark creativity and keep skills shining!
How To Use:
Remixable Holiday Bookcreator Activities
Laurie Guyon
Smile Gadget
Need a cheerful holiday boost for your classroom? This December Hour of Code calendar is packed with more than 40 ready to try activities that bring coding to the classroom! From Grinch coding to Bee-Bot adventures, it is a joyful mix of winter fun your students can jump into all month long.
December Hour of Code Calendar
Michelle Manning
Access Avenger
Winter Riddle Rooms
Celebrate the season with Winter Riddle Rooms that turn learning into a playful puzzle adventures. You get everything you need to host the fun without any stress with pre-made riddle rooms, and you also get materials to help you build your own riddle rooms for any topic. A perfect mix of mystery, creativity, and winter cheer, these riddle rooms are sure to become a seasonal go-to in your room every year!
What's included:
Barbara Bray
Story Weaver
Create a Calm Down Star
Many students get anxious during the holidays, and this tip can help them use self-regulation for those strong feelings. Just seeing their calm down stars can help students remember to pause, breathe slowly, and share their feelings. Creating a room full of beautiful, unique student stars is also a wonderful classroom decor idea for the holidays that can mindfully guide your students this season.
Creating Your Calm Down Star
Calming Star Pattern
Patrick Vernon
Zeitgeist Sentinel
Bring some holiday spirit to your classroom with this fun meme activity. Students love creating memes, and this template makes it easy to turn seasonal moments or end of the term reflections into creative fun! Use the meme bank included on the template to get started fast or let students choose their own images, then watch as they connect learning to humor in a way that keeps engagement high this season!
Creating your own meme activity:
Activity template
Additional bank of images
Idea credit:
Ditch That Textbook
Jennifer Ives
Edventure Maven
A True Santa-ty Saver
Need a little classroom calm this holiday season? This simple pin prick picture craft is a quiet time miracle that gives students a creative outlet while giving you a few peaceful moments to breathe. With a coloring page they generate in Adobe Express and a bit of focused pricking, the final glowing artwork looks magical in your windows. It is low prep, high engagement, and the silence feels like a gift all on its own.
How to Use
Click to unwrap the full story and detailed directions