Tell us about your favorite holiday traditions! With it being the holiday season and Christmas here in the United States and elsewhere around the world, we thought it would be fun to talk about some of the popular traditions and try and answer some of the questions we...
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Bedtime HistoryWinter Holiday Traditions Around the World | For Kids
Tell us about your favorite holiday traditions! Every December, people all over the world gather to celebrate the holiday season with family and friends. In the United States, in the days leading up to Christmas we decorate Christmas trees, string lights on our...
History of Stan and Jan Berenstain for Kids
The Spooky Old Tree “Three Little Bears, one with light, one with a stick, and one with a rope! A spooky, old tree! Do they dare go into that spooky old tree? Yes, they dare!” These are the opening lines from one of my favorite...
History of Christmas Trees for Kids
Learn about the origin of Christmas trees which started in ancient European times and now is a primary tradition in cultures around the world who celebrate Christmas.
Voyage of the Mayflower for Kids
Happy fall everyone! You might have noticed a sudden, slight chill in the air at night or the changing of the leaves on the trees. Maybe where you live, the leaves are changing from bright green to blazing red, orange, and yellow. In America, the stores around your...
History of the Samurai for Kids
Close your eyes and imagine you are in a beautiful, Japanese garden. You see a small stream leading to a calm pond covered in bright pink flowers and water lilies. The green grass around you is cut short and all of the plants and shrubbery are neatly trimmed....
History of J.R.R. Tolkien for Kids
Do you ever imagine your own worlds, where you meet strange creatures, fight goblins, or go on heroic quests? Maybe you’ve given your world a name, drawn maps of it, named and drawn the creatures who live there or even invented languages spoken there. Maybe you’ve...
History of Miguel Hidalgo for Kids
Close your eyes and imagine that you are hiking through a dense jungle in Mexico. The leaves around you are thick and wet. You use a sword to chop your way ahead. Sometimes you stumble and fall on roots or get stuck in vines that block your path. The weather is hot...
The History of Martin Luther King, Jr. for Kids
So this coming month, February, is “Black History Month” in the United States and Canada. Black History Month is a time for us to remember important people and events in the history of people of African descent around the world and in our countries. Black...
History of Mahatma Gandhi for Kids
Have you heard ever heard of a country called India? India is between China and the Middle East and much of it is surrounded by the Indian Ocean. India is home to one of the world’s oldest civilizations and for many years was one of the richest countries in the world....