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December 10, 2021 · 4 Comments

Christmas Printable Activities For Kids

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Christmas Printable activities, and printables for kids. Ideas include scavenger hunt literacy activities, crafts banners, number sense activities, reading literacy activities, digital research activities and documenting research in flipbooks on how Christmas is celebrated around the world.

Christmas is by far the happiest time of the year! You hear catchy Christmas carols, see the halls decked with holly, and have the chance to ease up on the teaching to make learning fun with Christmas printable activities and games.

christmas around the world printables for kids

So, what are some fun Christmas activities?

There are many fun activities, not just printables, but also digital that your students can do this Christmas holiday season. Last month, I shared a round-up of activities on Thanksgiving. I hope you were able to do a couple with your students.

In this blog post, I’ll share the many fun activities for Christmas, like:

  • going on a scavenger hunt for how Christmas is celebrated around the world
  • playing a game of Christmas scoot and building number sense skills
  • reading sight words activities with a Christmas theme
  • documenting research in both print and digital templates
  • crafting a Christmas facts flipbook
  • letter recognition activities
  • and even reviewing for the ELA standardized tests.

So, let’s look briefly at each of these fun Christmas activities. Hopefully, by the end of this post, you’ll pick a couple to do with your students. 

1. Christmas Printable Activities

i) A Scavenger Hunt For Facts

What better way to get school kids up and moving this Christmas – but with a scavenger hunt that’s not just fun, but informative too. Students learn all about the history and tradition of Christmas by going on a hunt around the classroom for fact cards. This is especially useful if you’re doing a unit on how Christmas is celebrated around the world.

Christmas Around The World Research Activities Scavenger Hunts

 

For added excitement, be sure to hide the cards in the most difficult-to-find places in your classroom. Students will find and read the information on each card. They will then respond to the question on their recording sheet. 

The learning goal for this activity is quite obvious – students comprehend information and apply key reading strategies. This is a vital skill that all students need to possess in order to ace any English Language Arts standardized test.

From the collection of 13 countries, this bundle offers, you can give students a choice to choose the country they would like to know how Christmas is celebrated in. 

Christmas Around The World Research Activities

After the Hunt, students will reflect on their learning by writing about the facts they found the most interesting. In my own classroom, this compilation of students’ reflections makes a hall-stopping display. 

                       Christmas Around The World Research Craft Display          

 

ii) Christmas Printable Activities – Research Flipbook

A vital part of the process of celebrating Christmas is to also research its history and origin. The editable Christmas Flipbook can help scaffold and document your students’ report writing process.

Furthermore, writing in a flipbook would also motivate your students who are writing challenged, as each section of the flipbook scaffolds the writing process.

Besides the flipbook also serves the purpose of

  • collating information
  • writing a draft
  • self-editing and peer editing prior to publishing
  • making an impressive bulletin board display.
                Christmas Around The World Research          Christmas Around The World Research Flipbook Activities

 

Once again, your students can choose the country to research on from a choice of 13 other countries.

Imagine the end result – an impressive display of students’ research flipbooks on a bulletin board. Now wouldn’t that be the highlight of whole-school Christmas fun activities!

iii) Christmas Printable Activities – Math Number Sense Scoot

Number sense activities, like the game of Scoot with a Christmas theme, can make learning all the more fun.

Addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division skills can all be reviewed in the context of this festive season.

 
Christmas Around The World Math Number Sense Activities
 

a) Christmas Addition Scoot

In the Addition Scoot Cards pack, students practice the below number sense skills:

  • relating addition to multiplication
  • working with arrays
  • identifying the missing addends in addition facts.
  • working out the sum of two given numbers
  • writing an addition sentence for a given illustration
  • problem-solving using illustrations
 
Christmas Around The World Addition Number Sense Scoot Activities
 

b) Christmas Subtraction Scoot

The Subtraction Scoot Cards review the following skills:

  • subtraction facts and number bonds
  • working with arrays
  • identifying the minuend, subtrahend and difference in a subtraction sentence
  • solving subtraction problems
  • writing a subtraction sentence for a given illustration
  • problem-solving using illustrations
Christmas Around The World Subtraction Number Sense Scoot Activities

c) Christmas Multiplication Scoot

With the Multiplication Scoot Cards, students will review:

  • multiplication facts and addition number sentences
  • arrays
  •  missing factors
  •  the product of two given numbers
  • multiplication sentences for given illustrations (group, collection)
  • filling in the blanks with numbers next in sequence
  • relating multiplication and addition
  • completing the multiplication facts for illustrations
  • problem-solving using illustrations
Christmas Around The World Multiplication Number Sense Scoot Activities

d) Christmas Division Scoot

And finally, the Division Scoot Cards facilitate students to:

  • relate division facts for multiplication sentences
  • write a division fact for a given array
  • identify the missing number in a division fact
  • find the quotient of two given numbers
  • know the dividend and divisor in a division sentence
  • express a division fact for a given illustration
  • problem-solve using illustrations
Christmas Around The World Division Number Sense Scoot Activities

How to Prepare For a Game of Scoot

To play the Christmas Scoot Games, choose to practice one number operation at a time.

I personally like to attach the 32 cards to the walls using some blu-tack rather than leaving them on students’ desks. This prevents cards from flying off in all the fun and getting lost.

Students can then start at any card, read the problem, and write their answers on the recording sheet.

iv) Christmas Printable Activities – An Alternative to Scoot

The Place Value Scavenger Hunt is one of many Christmas printable activities and is similar to the Scoot game. There is an added element of fun as students need to find the answer to a question on their card – on another card.

Christmas Around The World Place Value Activities

It’s kind of a looping activity and brings the student back to the first card they started with. Feedback is instant and this activity is self-grading, which makes it all the more endearing.

The ratio and proportions task card set will also have your students solving all types of Christmas-themed problems.

Christmas Around The World Ratio & Proportion Number Sense Activities

 

v) Christmas Printable Activities – Reading Sight Words

Teaching students to read is fundamental in a phonics program. Integrate it with a festive theme like Christmas – and it becomes fun.

In these reading wheels, students will turn the wheel to read 179 Dolch Sight Words.

Christmas Around The World Reading Wheels

vi) Christmas Initial Letter Recognition

Having a good grasp of the initial consonants is key to building phonemic awareness skills. If you teach Kindergarten or Foundation, all you need to do is to print out these 26 cards and have students peg the initial letter. You would need to help students identify the Christmas themed image if necessary.

Alphabet Letter Recognition Christmas Activity

vii) Christmas Craft Display Banners 

What better way to introduce all the Christmas fun activities, games, and crafts in your classroom than with an eye-catching decorative banner!

Another reason to create a hall-stopping bulletin board display with your students’ work.

Christmas Around The World Crafts

2. Christmas Digital Printable Activities 

Other than the printable version of the Scavenger Hunt Cards for Christmas facts, you can also assign digital versions that can also be printed.

The digital alternatives are:

i)  Digital Boom Cards At Boom Learning

Like the printable fact cards, these digital cards have the same information. The only difference is that the questions are multiple-choice and do not require a written response. Most students prefer this format of responding and this medium is a winner.

And for students who find reading particularly challenging, an option to turn on the audio reading of the information is at hand. They can then have a go at reading themselves.

Christmas Around The World Digital Research Activities

And at the end of each reading deck, students are rewarded. They get to build a snowman, an elf or even create a nativity scene. How fun is that!

ii)  Digital QR Codes

The fun aspect of this activity comes into play when students go on a hunt to scan the QR code and reveal the answer to the question. For the activity to be truly productive, you need to remind students to make an educated guess prior to scanning. Interestingly, they are still learning as they think, read, and write their responses on the recording sheets.

My students simply love moving around and scanning the codes!

Christmas Around The World Research QR Code Activities

iii) Digital Google Forms

Have you ever assigned your students Christmas activities that prepare them for the ELA standardized tests?

In this activity, students will read each fact card in a Google Form and respond to the grammar, punctuation, vocabulary, or spelling question by selecting the correct option.

That’s subtle learning in practice.

Christmas Around The World ELA Grammar Activities

Students receive instant feedback after the submission of the form with this fun Christmas-themed ELA Test Prep activity, and an instant score is provided in addition to written feedback for specific incorrect responses.

You can also analyze each student’s response to further dictate teaching and learning.
 

iv) Digital Research Flipbook

Like the paper version, this digital flipbook documents research.  This makes the whole process of presenting content information easier. Students simply type onto the digital template and have the option to share the completed flipbook with the class.
Christmas Around The World Research Digital Flipbooks

No cutting, pasting and assembly are needed. Less mess overall.

 

v) Digital Math Activity – Multiplication Facts

To reinforce skills, a digital version of the Multiplication Scoot Game can also be assigned to students.

Christmas Around The World Time Tables Multiplication
 

vi) Christmas Digital Activities – Reading Sight Words

This digital version of the printable reading word wheels involves an interactive slideshow complete with cool animations and transitions. 
Simply present each slide and have students practice reading the sight words. 
 
Christmas Around The World Reading Sight Words Dolch
 
I love to use this all-year-round, especially, to settle students down after recess, or just before ‘hometime’ when students are seated on the floor with their bags ready for that last bell to ring. 

 

vii) Christmas Digital Activities – Letter Recognition

Teaching your kindergarteners to identify the letter names and sounds of the alphabet is key to building phonics and phonemic awareness skills. This fun digital letter name and letter sound Boom Deck activity can help reinforce learning.

        Christmas Around The World Letter Sound Recognition           Christmas Around The World Letter Name Recognition

Students drag and drop the letter image representing the letter name or letter sound they hear.

This could no doubt be added to your collection of phonics Christmas fun activities.

 

Free Christmas Printable and Digital Activities

I hope you get to use a couple of these Christmas printable and digital activities listed in this post with your students. 

The primary goal is to make happy learning memories that will stay with the kids for a long time.

Here’s a free Christmas print and digital activity to use with your students. It features Scavenger Hunt printable cards, recording sheets, a flipbook to document research, and 34 boom digital cards (with audio).

It’s all about how Christmas is celebrated in the Netherlands and is best suited for students in grades 3-6.

Also included are the printable Christmas banners mentioned in this post. 

Look out for my next post on New Year Activities to start your New Year with more learning fun!

Access Christmas in the Netherlands or click on the image link below.

Christmas around the world Research Activities Netherlands

 

Here’s to your students enjoying memorable Christmas fun activities in your classroom!

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This post on ‘Christmas Printable Activities’ originally appeared at Teach2Tell.com

 
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Comments

  1. Fritz says

    December 10, 2021 at 12:37 pm

    how do i get some of these activities. i cannot find where to print them. Thanks for your help!

    Reply
    • Teach2Tell says

      December 19, 2021 at 8:18 pm

      Hi Fritz
      This blog post was originally posted at teach2tell.com, so you will find links to all resources mentioned in this post by accessing the link below:
      https://www.teach2tell.com/christmas-activities-for-elementary-students/

      Reply
  2. Andrea Kaufman says

    December 10, 2021 at 5:25 pm

    I am having trouble finding the Gingerbread Man characters. They are perfect for an activity I want to do. Thank you!

    Reply
    • Teach2Tell says

      December 19, 2021 at 8:20 pm

      Hi Andrea
      The Gingerbread Man character is clipart used in the blog post.
      You will find a collection by accessing the link below:
      https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Browse/Search:gingerbread%20man%20clipart

      Reply

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