Today, I’m rounding up our Christmas activities and FREE printables and sharing them all in one place!
These make for some fantastic activities leading up to Christmas. Almost every idea is one that can easily be used over Christmas break, when kids are off from school.
To find the post, click on the links for each activity. Find each activity by age-level with crafts at the end.
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Christmas Activities & Printables for Younger Ones
Nativity Pattern Block Mats– Use the plastic pattern blocks to fill in the pattern block mats. Included in the post is also an extension pack to work on tallying and graphing.
Christmas Pattern Block Mats – Use the plastic pattern blocks to fill in the pattern block mats.
Christmas Shadow Matching – These pages are for subscribers only! It’s free to subscribe. When you do, you’ll get access to hundreds of exclusive freebies!
Christmas Cut it Out! Pack– Cutting practice for younger children all the way to the child who is ready to cut out shapes. Extension activities are also included in each pack. {We have cutting packs for every season, too!}
Christmas Pre-K/K Pack– Includes one beginning reader and fun literacy and math activities that feature Christmas trees and Santa.
Nativity Pre-K/K Pack– Features TWO beginning readers and more activities to celebrate the Reason for the Season with the little ones.
Merry “Moose”mas Christmas Preschool Pack – The goal is FUN with a little bit of learning mixed in. {Great for toddlers and young preschoolers!}
Christmas Coloring Pages {Color by Letter}– Six pages of coloring fun while reinforcing both upper and lower case letters.
Christmas and Winter Playdough Mats– These are open-ended to spark creativity and work on those fine motor muscles all at the same time!
Candy Cane Patterns– Use do-a-dot paint, round stickers, or transparent counters to make patterns. There are patterns templates kids can follow or use a blank one.
Christmas Syllable Counting Dot Pages – Find four free pages of syllable counting {with picture key and answers}
Christmas Light Scavenger Hunt – These are designed for pre-readers, but older kids may enjoy them as well!
Christmas Counting Clip Cards – Work on building number sense with these Christmas-themed cards. Features numbers 1-10 and 11-20.
Nativity Counting Clip Cards – Work on building number sense with these Nativity-themed cards. Features numbers 1-10 and 11-20.
Christmas Number Dot Pages – These free dot pages are a festive and hands-on way to work on numbers 0-100 with your learners
Christmas Dot Pages – Help your little learners count UP or count DOWN until Christmas Day. You may also like my FREE Advent Dot Pages.
Christmas Activities & Printables for School-Age Kids
Santa Stories – Christmas Picture Writing Prompts – Use these fun picture writing prompts to draw and write about what has happened to Santa!
Short Vowel Word Family Christmas Trees– sorting pictures or words by their rime or word family endings; 30 different tree patterns featured
Consonant Blends Picture Sorting– Work on listening for those r-blends at the beginning of words with these picture cards.
Christmas Around the World Activity Page – This fun page comes from my Christmas Around the World Unit Study. Great for K and up!
Christmas Poetry Pack– Includes a silly poem PLUS literacy activities to work on rhyming, writing, and comprehension.
Five Senses Christmas Poetry – These pages are for subscribers only! It’s free to subscribe. When you do, you’ll get access to hundreds of exclusive freebies!
Advent Cards & Writing – Although we spread these out throughout the month of December, with older kids, you could totally divide these up over a week’s time, doing a few a day. This post also includes a way to work in some writing.
Christmas Math Games with Dice– Although this pack has a couple of ideas that can be geared towards preschool, the majority gets kids adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing…all with dice!
12 Days of Christmas {Adding & Multiplying}– Just how many gifts did “my true love” give to me? Figure it out! I can totally see kids and adults working together on this one. The winners could even get a special surprise!
December Writing Prompts– Pull this one out for a quick and fun writing activity. Then kids get to color in the picture when each prompt is finished.
Printable Christmas Songs Mad Libs – Such a fun way to practice or review parts of speech. Sing and laugh along!
Christmas Simile and Metaphor Writing – These pages are for subscribers only! It’s free to subscribe. When you do, you’ll get access to hundreds of exclusive freebies!
Writing Stories to Christmas Music– This one is fun ANY time of the Christmas season, even for adults!
Christmas Word Search Puzzles by Syllable Type – Find a word search puzzle for closed syllables, open syllables, CVCe syllables, R-Controlled Syllables, Vowel Team Syllables, and Final Stable Syllables! Answer keys are included, too!
Persuasive Letter Writing– Write a letter to that gingerbread man, convincing him to stop running. We did this one just last week with our homeschool group and it was SO cute hearing all their ideas. PLUS, it works on the format for writing a letter!
Christmas Word Bump! Practice those spelling words {any spelling words} over Christmas break with this fun and interactive spelling game.
Roll-a-Gingerbread House Math Game – With 2 levels of learning fun, this is a great way to practice math facts and logic.
Christmas Bible Trivia Cards – Print off these Christmas Bible Trivia cards. You’ll find two levels (easier and harder) using KJV as well as NIV.
Christmas Tree Morpheme Mat – If your learners are ready for a festive way to work on morphemes, you’ll enjoy this Christmas Tree Morpheme Mat.
Christmas Crafts
Torn Wrapping Paper Christmas Trees– Clean up can be fun and crafty after ripping in those Christmas presents!
Pine Cone Christmas Trees– Add a little Christmas bling to some ordinary pine cones and you have a Christmas tree! This is a GREAT craft for those fine motor skills!
Foil-Wrapped Christmas Ornaments– Simple ornaments kids can make that feature some fine motor fun.
Christmas Tree Countdown– This is another one that is better to start at the beginning of the season, but you could totally do it next year or adapt it for another purpose. Kids love pom-poms, so it’s a win no matter what you do! {The printable option can be found HERE.}
Printable Christmas Gift Tags – These gift tags provide the writing lines and space for kids to write on. Print onto 1-pg shipping labels to make them adhesive when peeled, too!
Enjoy teaching!
~Becky
Great ideas and printables! Thanks!