Christmas Break Boredom Busters

Take a look at our collection of Christmas Break Boredom Busters. They’re perfect for helping you bring just a little bit of structure to your days during the Christmas break.

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It’s Christmas break. The cookies are baking in the oven. The kids are home. All is calm and peaceful. Is that what it looks like at your house? If it does, I’m moving in with you! While I love the break time, I find that after a few days of no structure, the kids become a little restless {and so do I.}

That’s why I’m going to be intentional this Christmas Break. I’ve collected some Christmas Break Boredom Busters that I am keeping in my back pocket for those upcoming days when all is NOT calm and peaceful.

 

Christmas Break Boredom Busters

1. Tell a story or write a story together to instrumental Christmas music. You can even put aside the paper altogether and “act out” the music. If your child isn’t familiar with the story line of the Nutcracker, it makes the perfect music to act out.

2. Make as many words as you can out of familiar Christmas songs or Christmas sayings. Free Homeschool Deals has a free download for this activity.

3. Play a Christmas Game. The Measured Mom has a great round up of over 40 printable Christmas games!

4. Crayon Resist Mystery Christmas pictures- This one is SO simple. Just take some cardstock {it’s thicker and the paint won’t tear your paper}, a white crayon and water color paint. Draw a Christmas image on the paper and let your kids paint over it to discover the image. Kids can even draw images for each other to paint over. For a closer look on how this works, visit our Crayon Resist sight word post.

5. Do-a-dot Painting. My kids ALL love our do-a-dot paint. And The Gift of Curiosity has some amazing packs for do-a-dot, including this Christmas one.

6. Print off some Christmas play dough mats and let the kids decorate them. Picklebums shares some super cute open-ended playdough mats for Christmas. We also have some Christmas/Winter mats.

 

7. Work a hard puzzle {at least 1,000 pieces}. One of my favorite traditions as a child was working a huge puzzle with the family. It was placed on a card table or on a movable structure and we spent time trying to put it together, little by little.

8. Try a Christmas science experiment! Don’t know where to start? The Educators’ Spin on It shares 20+ Christmas Science experiments.

9. Play with pattern blocks. We have free, printable Nativity Pattern Block Mats and you can find more printable Christmas mats at PreKinders.

10. Break out the Christmas cookie cutters, the washable paint, and Q-tips {yes, it’s so simple} and do some Christmas Q-tip painting. What a super cute idea from 3 Dinosaurs!

 

11. Part of my qualm with winter time is how long the evening feels after dinner. It’s dark by 5:30 pm where I live and there’s still three more hours to go before bedtime! This year, I created a Christmas lights scavenger hunt BINGO game, perfect for that three hour window when you may just want to pull your hair out otherwise {or maybe I’m the only one??}.

12. Play an indoor family game. What Do We Do All Day? shares a great list of ideas and activities your family can do together that don’t require a game board! She also shares another list of indoor (and dramatic) family activities.

 

13. If you’ve used our Thanksgiving Do-a-Dot Mosaic printable, this one works the same way! Print off the Christmas Magnet pages from Making Learning Fun, then print off the grid from our Thanksgiving pack, and you’ve got a fun puzzle-type activity that’s challenging even for your older elementary kids! {To create our images, we used both the Rainbow pack and Brilliant pack of Do-a-Dot Paint.}

14. Need a Christmas printable? Embark the Journey has just released 12+ different printable Christmas packs this year, calling it her 12 Days of Christmas printables. There were so many good ones. Her first one was the Polar Express Pack. You can see more of them here.

15. Do-a-dot paint seems to be a theme here as 123 Homeschool 4 Me shares some really cool Christmas Mystery Do-a-dot printables. These also sneak in some math practice!

 

16. Brush up some math skills with these fun printable Christmas Math Games with Dice. In this pack are activities for number recognition all the way to beginning division!

17. Going on a road trip? You might just want to check out my recent post, 20+ Car Games & Activities. There are free printable games as well as low-prep games that require no materials at all.

18. Make some ornaments together. I love, love, love these beaded ornaments from True Aim. They are a great activity for calming kids down and getting them to focus on a quiet activity after all that sugar.

Plus they are absolutely BEAUTIFUL!

19. Decorate a pine cone or two and create some pine cone Christmas trees. These adorn our mantle, but would also make a beautiful centerpiece!

 

Find ALL of our Christmas activities/printables HERE.

 

 

Enjoy teaching!
~Becky