2025 EduGuardian Advent

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!

Gerilyn Williams

Math-R-Board

This winter-themed experience brings together science, math, and literacy in a cozy, hands-on way that is perfect for easing back into learning after break. Students explore snowflakes through STEM challenges, creative building, videos, and digital tools that spark curiosity and connection across subjects. A flexible, pick-your-path style resource that lets you choose what fits your class best. ❄️✨

Genially Link

How to Use:

• Open the Genially presentation
• Watch the read aloud Snowflake Wilson
• Allow students to explore the science, math, and creative options that follow

Erika Sandstrom

Green Screen Gal

Cue the sleigh bells and roll the Reels as students turn holiday humor into a collaborative, laugh-out-loud creation. With corny jokes, visual gags, and just the right amount of sparkle, this activity brings big joy, low stress, and zero Grinches into your classroom.

Steps:

• Create a holiday joke
• Add all to a shared Express or Canva project
• Arrange clips; add extras like animations & sounds
• Sync to music, export, and share

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Michael Wesely

EdTech Enchanter

Looking for a high-engagement way to keep students writing during the holiday season? WeWillWrite turns writing into a game-like experience that motivates students to write more, revise with purpose, and stay excited—right when energy is high and routines are flexible. -You can hear a pin drop when students are working on these quick writes! -8 NEW actives featured each month in the FREEium!

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Christie Cloud

HistOracle

Generative AI is everywhere, so helping students learn prompt engineering matters more than ever. Using images with Canva AI makes this skill playful, creative, and perfect for the holiday season. This template uses Christmas carols to practice writing strong prompts, then easily swaps to any topic after the holidays. Change the title and accents and reuse it for stories, history, science, or anything you can imagine.

Canva Template

Steps to Use

• Open the template & choose a song
• Write a simple prompt & generate an image
• Adjust the prompt & regenerate to improve
• Create and share final polished images to guess the song as a class

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

Kalo Haslem

Innovation Enforcer

Bring a little sparkle to learning with this playful social media–style template that gets students excited to share their thinking. Perfect for festive topics or end of unit celebrations, students showcase ideas, reflections, or creations in a format they instantly recognize. It’s high engagement, lots of creativity, and a fun way to wrap up learning.

Steps to Use:

• Choose a topic
• Share the template with students
• Have them complete to showcase learning in a creative way!

Dashboard

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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

Analiese Smith

Literary Luminary

Take your students on a joyful trip around the world with this global holiday traditions exploration created in TeachShare. Learners will discover how different cultures celebrate, earn badges along the way, and stay motivated with a clear sense of purpose and progress. With a built-in teacher guide and ready to use badges, this resource turns seasonal curiosity into meaningful learning that feels both celebratory and manageable during a busy time of year.

Steps to Use:

• Open the TeachShare resource
• Share with students
• Explore global holiday traditions
• Celebrate learning with badges

TeachShare Global Traditions Resource

Teacher's Guide

Learning Badges Linked Below:

Larisa Black

AiLuminous

Forensic Files - Holiday Edition brings that perfect mix of mystery and merriment to your classroom. Students follow clues, study evidence, and use deductive reasoning to solve that timeless seasonal puzzle... which reindeer "dunnit." This spirited "whodunit" will have everyone channeling their inner detective!

Steps

• Open and review both versions
• Share the evidence packet with students
• Guide learners as they analyze clues
• Reveal the culprit and celebrate solving

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Kat Crawford

Divergent Diva

aka Lunch Lady

Teachers, I know you’re juggling a million things as you power through this final week before break. To help make these last days a little lighter and a lot more fun, we’ve put together some cheerful FigJam Holiday activities in this template. Take a moment to enjoy a bit of creativity and play—you truly deserve it!

Figma Holiday Template

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

Heather Brown

Mathemagician

Santa's Magical Mission: Choose Your own Adventure

🎄✨ A Little Holiday Help for Busy Classrooms ✨🎄Help Santa spread cheer around the world while students flex their creativity, problem solving, and perseverance. In this interactive holiday adventure, students guide Santa as he delivers gifts across the globe, makes tricky decisions along the way, and works to return safely to the North Pole. Each choice earns points, and by the end, students receive a special holiday title based on how well they helped Santa succeed. It feels like a game, but it builds persistence, reflection, and engagement during those high energy December days.

Steps to Use:

• Introduce the activity
• Launch on the platform of your choice
• Students respond and track their points
• Reveal their holiday titles and celebrate success

Magic School Chatbot

SchoolAI Chatbot

Jessica Campos

Rainbow Tech Siren

❄️ End the semester with a little snowflake magic. Students design one of a kind snowflakes, because just like them, no two are ever the same. Using Adobe Express, they plan their patterns before bringing them to life with copper tape, LED lights, and coin batteries. The result is a glowing snowflake that blends creativity, circuits, and reflection in a joyful way.

Steps to Use

• Design a snowflake in Adobe Express
• Create a cardstock version of the snowflake
• Create a parallel circuit that lights up
• Match the sides and watch the magic
• Create a reflection in Animate with Audio

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!

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

Heather Brantley

HeatherTechEDU

Here’s what you’ll find behind today’s “door”:⭐ AI Feedback that helps every student grow with confidence 🎨 Drawing prompts for snowmen, winter scenes, and creative thinking 🗳️ Class voting to spark discussion and build community 🤔 Would You Rather…? questions that bring instant laughter and connection ✨ Plus tons more interactive activities to keep learning joyful and bright! Whether you’re celebrating holidays around the world, exploring winter science, or just trying to keep the classroom cozy and fun before break, Curipod makes your lessons magical. ⛄💫 🎁 Open today’s Curipod activity and bring a burst of festive fun to your classroom!

🧡 Create a FREE Curipod account at Curipod.com and unwrap endless interactive, creative lesson ideas—let the fun begin! 🚀

Curipod

Curipod Winter Fun Activity

Curipod Christmas Theme Would You Rather Activity

Jen Mitchell

Adaptive Avenger

❄️ Snowflake FunBring the magic of winter into your elementary classroom with this interactive digital book about snowflakes made with Book Creator! Students will read a passage made with Diffit (or have it read to them), and watch a short video to learn all about how snowflakes are formed. The best part? They then get to use Book Creator's built-in tools to unleash their creativity and draw as many unique snowflakes as possible! This engaging activity is perfect for those pre- or post-holiday weeks (late December/early January)!

Steps to Use

• Remix the book and assign to students
• Read the snowflake passage & watch the video
• Let students use Bookcreator tools to design their own snowflakes

Snowflake BookCreator Remixable Book

Abby Schiferl

Machine Maestro

Bring your holiday lessons to life by having students create festive animated GIFs with Brush Ninja, a simple online drawing and animation tool. It’s a fun, creative way for learners of all ages to explore digital art while expressing their holiday spirit!

Steps to Use:

• Choose a topic
• Model for students how to create & download
• Allow students to create their own
• Set up a walk around gallery to view all GIFS

Canva Link

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

Sophie Youngs

The Inquisitor: Inclusive Learning Architect

Give Yourself the Gift of Time (and Insight!)

The Holiday Survival Tip: Let’s be real—December energy in the classroom is chaotic. You want to do meaningful review, but you do not want to take a mountain of grading home over the break.Enter Snorkl. It’s a whiteboard recording tool (think Flip meets an interactive whiteboard) where students talk and draw to explain their thinking. The magic is the AI feedback. As soon as they submit, the AI gives them instant, specific feedback on their process, not just the final answer.

Holiday Ideas:

• Budget a holiday feast
• States of Matter Using Hot Cocoa
• Analyze theme of a holiday song

Snorkl App

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Anthony Beckett

Collaboration Curator

Start the new year off right by dreaming forward together. This New Year vision board invites students to reflect, set goals, and picture where they are headed as they step into a fresh start full of possibility. Try it out now on the group board with your own!

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Group Board

Steps to Use

• Complete yours on the group board
• Create a copy of the classroom board
• Use all the cool tricks you learned creating yours to help your class create one in the new year