Anybody else ready for a break from your regularly scheduled activities?? This has been our first year fully homeschooling all three kids. It’s been mostly enjoyable and occasionally miserable, but we are all eager for the Christmas season and all the excitement that goes along with it. As the teacher in charge, I made the decision to switch gears from our regular school curriculum and put together some Christmas activity printables for my girls to do in December. I know I’m excited for a change of pace, and I hope these Christmas activities will be mostly fun and not at all miserable!
Here’s a preview of the final product…
This video skims through some pages in the Christmas activity printables for my 3rd grader. You can see a combination of fun activities and some “actual” schoolwork. Gotta sneak in that math one way or another. I don’t think my kids will be fooled into wanting to do math just because there’s a Christmas design on the page, but they’ll be all about coloring the pictures.
(Note: some pages seen in the video were not created by me. See below for a list of Teachers Pay Teachers creators whose pages are included in the video snippet.)
Christmas Gift Guides
Christmas Activity Workbook Sections
I used green lightweight cardstock as divider pages in between sections. Additionally, I put this green cardstock behind each page that my kids would be coloring. That way if they choose to use markers, it won’t bleed through onto the following pages.
After making the video, I also added tabs to divide sections. The three labeled sections I used were Journal (since we’ll use that every day), Language Arts, and Math. In addition, I used heavyweight white cardstock for the front cover and black cardstock for the back cover. An unpaginated table of contents makes finding pages a little easier but gives me flexibility.
I used my comb binding machine and 3/4″ comb binding to bind the Christmas activity printables together, but you could three-hole punch the pages and put them in a binder. I love the comb binding because the pages can fully wrap around rather than having the full width of an open binder on a desk or table. In my house, three open binders means a three-way argument over whose space is being invaded most. Sigh. An office supply store can bind your workbook if you want it done this way and don’t have a machine.
Fun Christmas Activity Printables
I had already created some Christmas activities, describes in my post about advent activity ideas. I wanted to keep creating more, but at some point, I have to shop and bake and watch Christmas movies with my family, so here’s the list of what’s included in the Christmas Activity Printables Pack.
- December Calendar: My kids love crossing off days to count down to things.
- Christmas Fun List: Activity ideas—they get to choose a few things they most want to do during December.
- Christmas Wish List: Place for them to give me (or grandma) gift ideas.
- Christmas Gift List: Place for them to keep track of gift ideas for others.
- Christmas Acts of Kindness: 24 acts of kindness ideas.
- Christmas Movie List: 24 Christmas movie ideas for when no one knows what to watch.
- Christmas Journal Prompts: 24 daily journal prompts to use leading up to Christmas. (Extra writing practice!)
- Kind Words Project: 24 days of encouragment for someone special
- 24 Games of Christmas Challenge: List of games and checkboxes to see how many they can play in December.
- Christmas Coloring Pages: I made three new coloring pages using phrases from Christmas carols, plus four advent coloring pages with scripture.
Language Arts Activity Pages
The only language arts page I created on my own was the Christmas Haiku page. Everything else came from Teachers Pay Teachers. Head on over there and search for whatever activity types you want for your child. The options are endless!
I chose to add a Christmas research project on the origin of Christmas symbols and what they mean. They will also choose a Christmas carol and research the author and circumstances of origin. The final research type project I included has them pick a country and find out what Christmas looks like in another part of the world. The website whychristmas.com is a good place to start.
I was able to find plenty of Christmas themed grammar activities for each grade level (e.g. finding all the similes and metaphors in the song, “Mr. Grinch”). Everything from “Home Alone Math” to “Elf” comprehension questions is there for the downloading! You can find writing and comprehension activities to go along with Christmas books like The Family Under the Bridge, A Boy Called Christmas, or The Best Christmas Pageant Ever.
My priority in choosing activities was to keep it mostly fun, and work on reviewing and solidifying concepts they have learned.
Math Activity Pages
It’s no surprise that I did not create a single math activity for my Christmas activity printables. TpT to the rescue! My 3rd-grader will love reviewing multiplication facts in a color by number page. A Reindeer Games Logic Puzzle will delight my 5th-grader. And my 7th-grader will just have to suffer through the math. Ha! Even she might enjoy solving linear equations if the answers result in a beautifully colored mosaic.
Coloring Pages
My three girls love coloring. We go through markers faster than toilet paper left the shelves in 2020. I made a few of my own coloring pages, and added just a few others to their Christmas activities because, shhhh….I bought a few new coloring books that I think they’ll be crazy about. If you want to include cute Christmas coloring pages, check out the adorableness over at Happiness is Homemade. There are a few coloring pages at 30 Seconds Dad that my kids like also. They’re picky. They like lots of detail, but thick, black lines to color in between. I included a joy to the world design from Printable Crush in our Christmas workbooks that was a hit with all three of my girls.
Finally, I created advent coloring pages for the four weeks of advent. The pages highlight hope, peace, joy, and love.
Read Scripture-Focused Advent Lesson Plan for Homeschool
More Fun Christmas Activity Printables
Bonus Banner Craft
Since my kids love to color so much, I created a “Joy to the World” Christmas coloring banner for them. Technically, it’s not included in their bound Christmas workbooks, but I’m giving it to you in the free download anyway!
Join my mailing list below for access to my printables library, where you’ll find the free “Christmas Activity Workbook” download, along with hundreds more pages to help you organize your home and homeschool. download the entire Christmas Activity Workbook. Then, head over to Teachers Pay Teachers and grab a bunch of fun grade-level resources. Print everything out, add it to a binder, and pour yourself a steaming cup of tea. I hope your kids love their Christmas Activity Printables as much as mine do.
Merry Christmas from my family to yours!
Credit for printable downloads included in video
The video clip shown above included several pages I downloaded from the Teachers Pay Teachers website from the following accounts:
Christmas Symbols from Katqat Resources
Christmas Carol Challenge from Denae Trahan
Christmas A-Z from Prestige English
Christmas Around the World from This Reading Mama
Christmas Homophones from The ‘Peech Teacher
Christmas Sampler from Promoting Success
Adding to 1000 from Little Red
12 Days of Christmas Math from Rachel Lynette
Budget Snowman Challenge from Miss Britnee
Check out my Google Sheets Christmas Planner to organize your holiday season!
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These are so cute and creative for the kids! Thanks!!
So glad you enjoyed them!