Don’t let the Ball Drop on your virtual 2021 New Year’s Winter Activities!

Maybe you’re in a classroom, homeschool, virtual or distance learning when Thanksgiving comes around this year….how to celebrate Christmas virtual or have a social distance holiday activities for your students!

If you’re celebrating Christmas online this year or remotely with students here are some ideas to help!

Holidays and celebrations are cornerstones of the year in the classroom or at home. They give students something to look forward to.

Social distance or virtual Christmas student ideas are not too tough and there are so many ways to incorporate virtual holiday classroom activities all throughout December.

If you love these ideas to keep students engaged you HAVE to grab this student engagement calendar with TONS more at your fingertips!

If you want great January Winter Virtual Morning Meeting ideas at your fingertips – this BUNDLE is for you! Games, prompts, practice and more perfect for your elementary classroom virtually or in person!

What are some virtual winter or New Year’s ideas for social distancing in January?

Virtual New Year’s and Janary classroom ideas do not have to be boring!

Winter Virtual Activity – Would you Rather?!

Hilarious to play with students OR use as writing prompts, – this Winter January Would You Rather version is awesome!

Easy to use digitally or in person for a great virtual January classroom activity!

Virtual Winter/ New Year’s Scavenger Zoom for elementary!

A winter indoor Zoom scavenger hunt is a fun virtual January idea!

This Winter Indoor Scavenger hunt is a great for all elementary classrooms!

Use this in January and have a fun Friday or activity for any class or winter fun activity!

January Winter Virtual Emoji Text Prompts

A fun virtual winter Morning meeting idea are text message writing prompts!

These are themed for winter or January, for example “You were ice skating on a beautiful pond and see an extraordinarily colored octopus below you, what do you do?”

These are easy to use to start off a class with fun writing or as a december holiday writing project for students!

Digital January Winter Quotation Mark Practice (with JOKES!)

These Quotation mark and joke practice is such a fun way to practice quotation marks – use this as a January virtual activity!

Get students laughing with jokes!!

Use the picture prompts to answer questions. Use with the whole class or individually and have students fill in!

January Winter Quotation Mark practice with JOKES are such a great way to keep students engaged!

Distance Learning Winter Charades

Send students clues in chat and have one student act at a time!

Digital Hot Chocolate Party

Send or mail hot cocoa and everyone get together to drink at your virtual christmas party.

*bonus* wear fun pajamas or holiday themed attire.

Virtual Winter Read Alouds

Put up a fireplace as a screen share and listen to the tales, grab hot cocoa and take turns reading chilling or cold tales.

This is such a fun virtual winter classroom idea.