December 2023

Here's some activities you could try over the festive season: 

• Salt dough ornaments
• Melted snow buddy biscuits
• Festive chocolate truffles
• Paper snowflakes
• Hand or thumb print cards
• Light-up greetings cards
• Homemade wrapping paper

The largest annual gathering on climate change. This year's event, is known as COP 28.

Activities to try:

• Explore the effect of habitat loss in this Habitat hunt game
• Play Web of life to explore biodiversity
• Make homemade seed bombs 

The UK's biggest annual tree celebration, National Tree Week, marking the start of the winter tree planting season. 

Activities to try:

• Discover nature in Life under leaves
• Create some bark rubbings in Bark worse than their bite

This event focuses on the rights and well-being of disabled people around the world. 

Activities to try:

• Explore differential treatment with Equity spaghetti
• Discover how accessible your meeting place is
• Arrange to visit a local disability service

Did you know that soil is essential to our survival? World Soil Day celebrates the importance of healthy soil and sustainability. 

Activities to try:

• Explore our ecosystem with Web of life
• Try building a wormery
• Make your own compost

A time to say thank our amazing volunteers, and see how you can volunteer to make a difference in your local community. 

Activities to try:

• Say thank you using Thank you notes
• Try some volunteering yourself with Be the change
• Learn about the Young Leaders' Scheme

Hanukkah is a Jewish festival, which lasts for eight nights. It's sometimes known as the Jewish Festival of Lights. 

Activities to try:

• Have a menorah relay race
• Make some camp stove doughnuts
• Discover a dreidel game

Use your imagination and think about where you'd go if you could time travel? 

Activities to try:

• Try to guess a badge from the past
• Be part of a Time travelling team
• Send a postcard to your future self

Human Rights Day marks the anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It's the most translated document in the world and sets out the rights that everyone is entitled to. 

Activities to try:

• Play human rights musical chairs
• Make change with the Community Impact staged activity badge

Winter Solstice marks the shortest day of the year, when the Earth's axis is tilted the farthest away from the sun. It's an important time for many cultures around the world. 

Activities to try:

• Make a fruit solar system
• Go stargazing with Eyes to the skies
• Try Taiwanese treats for the winter solstice festival, Dongzhi

Christmas Eve is celebrated around the world on the 24 December. Some countries mostly celebrate Christmas on this day, rather than 25 December.

Activities to try:

• Do a Fill the stocking relay race
• Play Santa's coming

Christmas Day is celebrated around the world on the 25 December, with lots of people having a visit from Santa Claus!

Activities to try:

• Cook a campfire Christmas pudding  
• Make festive chocolate truffles
• Make melted snow buddy biscuits

Boxing Day is a holiday celebrated after Christmas Day. 

Activities to try:

• Get crafty with Wrapping waste cards
• Make something tasty with leftovers
• Support a local foodbank

Hogmanay is celebrated on New Year's Eve. Did you know Hogmanay is the word for the last day of the old year?

Activities to try:

• Learn a traditional dance called Strip the willow
• Sing some Scottish songs
• Try making some Scottish tartan