Christmas Classroom Activities

Christmas Classroom Activities and Lesson Ideas

Christmas - celebrated on December 25 each year - is a time for sharing, singing, decorating, and enjoying the holiday season. Spread festive cheer in your classroom with Christmas-themed lesson plans, Christmas crafts, art activities, printables, and worksheets. Read on for holiday teaching ideas or explore our Christmas resources below!

Christmas Activities to Bring Holiday Cheer

looking for some Christmas classroom activity ideas to keep students engaged before the Christmas break? Our Christmas activities for school incorporate reading, writing, and math.

Browse TeacherVision’s full library of Christmas and winter-themed resources below.

Read a Christmas Classic

One of our favorite Christmas classroom activities is reading a classic Christmas poem or story.

‘Twas the Night Before Christmas is a great festive poem to read with elementary grades. Download the printable version of the text and choose from poetry, reading, writing, and even math activities to accompany the poem in our collection of ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas Resources!

Create Christmas-Themed Learning Centers

Learning centers are a great way for students to choose their own Christmas classroom activities. Our Christmas-themed choice boards are great for learning centers, as well as for early-finisher, extension, and take-home activities.

Our math choice boards, for either elementary or middle school, are great for math centers. Browse more choice boards below to enhance your Christmas activities for school.

Make Time for Christmas Arts and Crafts

We all know that Christmas crafts and art activities are popular during the holiday. Try setting up an early-finisher craft station, or set aside quiet time for mindful coloring.

Early elementary students will love our Christmas Coloring Pages, Printables and Crafts, and we have plenty of other arts, crafts, and coloring printables to choose from.

More Christmas Classroom Activities

Experience the joy of Christmas activities for school using Christmas lesson plans, activities, and printables. Browse our collection of teaching resources, curated to help incorporate the holidays into your curriculum— from language arts to math and science, social studies and art. There is so much for your students to enjoy this holiday season! 

Christmas Choice Boards

These choice boards for elementary and middle school feature fun Christmas classroom activities and printables that are perfect for learning centers, or for extension and early-finisher activities.

Christmas Printables

Browse printables to help your students learn more about Christmas, including reading activities, guided discussion questions, word games, and word scrambles, as well as reading warm-ups and teaching guides.

Holiday-Themed Lesson Plans

Our holiday lesson plans are great for helping students learn about Christmas and other winter holidays with activities including creating acrostic poems, making paper chains with symbols, and more.

Literature & Christmas Connected

Christmas stories, books, and poems are a great way to expand students’ knowledge, vocabulary, and reading skills. Track their reading progress or combine reading activities with story writing to improve their creative writing skills.

Social Studies & Christmas Connected

Explore Christmas and winter holiday connections using these social studies resources. Includes a slideshow with the origins of Christmas traditions, writing acrostic poems, and a geography activity.

Slideshows

Browse our collection of slideshows to find resources to enhance your curriculum with the Christmas holidays. Includes reading passages as well as fun art activities.

Christmas-Themed Packets and Projects

Rich and comprehensive cross-curricular projects and themed packets that connect Christmas and subjects like math, reading, writing, and poetry. Perfect for 1-2 class periods to reinforce the subjects you're teaching while spreading some holiday cheer.

Christmas Crafts and Art Activities

Bring some festive fun into art class with Christmas coloring pages, craft activities like potato print wrapping paper or holiday paper chains, and Christmas art activities.

Christmas Math Activities

Interconnect math skills with these Christmas activities. Includes printables to help students practice multiplication, solving word problems, and calculations.

Language Arts & Christmas Connected

These festive activities are great for helping students develop reading comprehension, practice writing skills and use creative thinking skills by reviewing synonyms and reading stories.

Winter Activities & Printables

Winter is a great time to extend your students' knowledge of weather with activities such as making a thermometer, creating a weather station to predict the weather, and learning about the winter solstice.

More Winter Holidays

If you enjoyed these resources for Christmas, you might like to check out our holiday packets or explore resource collections for other winter holidays.

Recommended Christmas Resources

'Twas the Night Before Christmas Poetry and Music Activity for Elementary

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'Twas the Night Before Christmas Poetry and Music Activity for Elementary

Bring song and poetry into the classroom this Christmas season with this interactive music and poetry activity for ele...

‘Twas the Night Before Christmas Poetry Menu for Elementary

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‘Twas the Night Before Christmas Poetry Menu for Elementary

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Winter Holiday Craft Projects for the Elementary Classroom

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Winter Holiday Craft Projects for the Elementary Classroom

Bring hands-on creativity into your classroom this holiday season with this collection of holiday craft projects. This ...

'Twas the Night Before Christmas Cross-Curricular Choice Board for Elementary

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'Twas the Night Before Christmas Cross-Curricular Choice Board for Elementary

These cross-curricular Christmas activities for elementary students, inspired by the classic festive poem 'Twas the Nigh...

Christmas Coloring Pages, Printables and Crafts

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Christmas Coloring Pages, Printables and Crafts

Complete Packet of Christmas Coloring Pages and Printable Christmas Crafts Celebrate the holiday season with this 30-pa...

Grade 3 Holiday Math and Literacy Kit

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Grade 3 Holiday Math and Literacy Kit

A Complete Kit of Fun Holiday Math and Literacy Activities for Grade 3 Build your students’ math and literacy skills th...

'Twas the Night Before Christmas Poetry Study Packet

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'Twas the Night Before Christmas Poetry Study Packet

This resource provides 4 poetry strategies and 3 poetry printable activities for how to teach poetry to elementary stude...

Christmas Math Choice Board for Middle School

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Christmas Math Choice Board for Middle School

These Christmas student choice math activities for middle school students are perfect for the countdown to Christmas in ...

Christmas Math Choice Board for Elementary Grades

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Christmas Math Choice Board for Elementary Grades

These Christmas student choice math activities for elementary students are perfect for the countdown to Christmas in you...

'Twas the Night Before Christmas Reading and Writing Activities Packet for Elementary

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'Twas the Night Before Christmas Reading and Writing Activities Packet for Elementary

This packet of reading, writing, and poetry Christmas printables based on the poem 'Twas the Night Before Christmas, is ...

Twas the Night Before Christmas Choice Board for Elementary Grades

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'Twas the Night Before Christmas ELA Choice Board for Elementary Grades

These Christmas student choice reading and writing activities for elementary students are perfect for celebrating and le...

'Twas the Night Before Christmas Mini-Project

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'Twas the Night Before Christmas Mini-Project

This Christmas mini-project, focused around the classic holiday poem 'Twas the Night Before Christmas, is perfect for he...

Holiday Choice Boards Essentials Kit

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Holiday Choice Boards Essentials Kit

110-page holiday choice board bundle - student choice activities and worksheets for Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas,...

Candy Cane Sugar Cookie Recipe

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Candy Cane Sugar Cookie Recipe

Transform sugar cookie dough into peppermint candy cane treats for Christmas. This recipe is easy for children to follow...

Winter Holiday Bookmarks

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Winter Holiday Bookmarks

Christmas ELA, engineering, kindness activities for elementary classrooms

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Christmas Choice Board and Blues Busters for Elementary Students

This Christmas-themed and blues-buster choice board features 7 fun, skill-building activities to help students celebrate...

TEACHING RESOURCE

O. Henry's "The Gift of the Magi"

Find the full text of the classic short story by O. Henry, "The Gift of the Magi." This is an excellent piece of liter...

Historical Fiction Reading Warm-Up: 1890s Christmas

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Historical Fiction Reading Warm-Up: 1890s Christmas

Improve students' reading skills with a passage of historical fiction and comprehension questions in this printable warm...

Holiday Activity Packet

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Holiday Packet for Grades K-6

Cross-Curricular Winter Holiday Activities for Elementary Students This packet of 30 activities includes fun ideas for ...

The Polar Express Printable Crossword Puzzle

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The Polar Express Printable Crossword Puzzle

Use vocabulary and events to solve this The Polar Express printable crossword puzzle. This is a great activity for your...

Let's Play "The Conductor Says!"

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Let's Play "The Conductor Says!"

In this version of Simon Says, the Conductor is in charge. Use this game to help young children practice listening. It's...

Pin the Star on the Christmas Tree

GAMES AND APPS

Pin the Star on the Christmas Tree

Print this fun Christmas game to play with your students! Hang the picture of the tree (page 1) on the wall, and cut out...

Make Your Own Paper Garland Craft

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Make Your Own Paper Garland Craft

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