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Wrap up Thanksgiving, and get ready December with these 60 free holiday printables for kids. 

Young children, in preK, kindergarten, and first grade, will agree these activities are a great way to keep learning furn.  

Myself, and 42 educators, have come together to give you these amazing free printables. 

A special thanks to Alexa from Perfectly Purple Classroom for putting all of these freebies into one bundle for you.  

Here, you will find lists of printables for your Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years, Hanukah, and Gingerbread Man lesson plans. 

At the bottom of the post , you will see a link to get the Free Bundle.  Enjoy!

Free Thanksgiving Activities

• What I Did on Turkey Day Writing & Drawing Activity by Perfectly Purple Classroom
• I am Thankful For Writing Activity created by Love Teaching Preschool
• Free Scarecrow Build a Poem created by The Little Learning Corner (see the video below for a demonstration on these fun, engaging, Build a Poems)

Christmas Math Activities

• Winter Holiday Centers Activities created by Perfectly Purple Classroom
• Tree Top Numbers created by The Prek Day
• Decorate the Tree & Count to Three Seesaw Activity by Easy as ABCD
• Christmas Count & Cover created by Pencils in Pre k
• Christmas Wreathe Number Hunt created by Pre to the K
• Shape Santa Sort created by A Sunny Day in First Grade
• Candy Cane Counting Emergent Reader created by Teacher of Superheroes
• Feed Santa Number Game created by Teaching Pre k
• Tree Playdoh Number Task Cards created by Create 25
• Ornament Number Writing #1 10 created by Easy as ABCD
• Ornament Symmetry Coloring Page created by The Chatty Kinder
• Christmas Number Puzzles #1 10 created by From Plan to Play
• Christmas Roll, Count, & Color created by Sue’s Snazzy Classroom
• Shape Sort created by Live Laugh I Love Kindergarten
• Rudolph’s Lights Count & Color created by Glitter Glue and Pre k Too
• Holiday Sweets Roll & Find Number Dice Game created by Miss Nicole at Home
• Santa’s Countdown to Christmas created by The Exceptional Playground

Free Christmas Literacy Activities

• Letters to Santa Templates created by Perfectly Purple Classroom
• Letter Number Ornaments created by Perfectly Purple Classroom
• Christmas CVC Word Sensory Bin created by Literacy with Littles
• Letter and Number Matching created by Perfectly Preschool
• Christmas Long A & Short A Sort created by A Sunny Day in First Grade
• Holiday Sight Word Sentences created by A is for Apples
• Dear Santa Letter Template created by Running Turtle Resources
• Holiday Light Writing & Drawing Templates created by Positively Bright
• Christmas Beginning Sounds Write the Room created by Espresso Little Minds
• Elf Application created by Taylor Made Pre k Teacher
• Christmas Sight Word Game created by Kathleen’s Kindergarten
• Letters to Santa English & Spanish created by Love Teaching Preschool
• Christmas Alphabet Puzzles created by KC Kindergarten
• Holidays Around the World Flippy Flap created by Big Ideas for Little Hands
• Snowflake Name Craft created by Running Turtle Resources
• Christmas Bingo created by Miss Karley’s Classroom

Free Christmas Coloring Pages

• Holiday Color Matching Worksheets created by Perfectly Purple Classroom
• Ornament Color Match Boom Cards created by Play Create Learn
• Christmas Color Sorting File Folder Activity created by Teacher of Superheroes

Teacher Resources

• Holiday Bulletin Board Letters created by Kre8tive Klassroom
• Holiday Questionnaire created by The Alternative Way to Prek
• Desk Pet Winter Homes created by Your Everyday Teacher
• Christmas Advent Calendar created by Play Create Learn
• Holidays Around the World One Step Directions created by Latte Fun in Pre-k

Free Hanukkah Worksheets

• Hanukkah Word Wall Cards created by Engaging Early Learners
• Hanukkah Review Worksheet created by Engaging Early Learners
• Wishlist Writing for Hanukkah created by A is for Apples
• Menorah Counting to 5 Worksheet created by Easy as ABCD
• Hanukkah Craft with Visual Directions created by Simply Visual
• Dreidel Number Race & Trace created by AC from AZ

Free New Years Printables

• New Year Activity Pack created by Perfectly Purple Classroom
• Happy New Year Crowns created by Perfectly Purple Classroom
• Happy New Year Coloring Pages created by Engaging Early Learners
• New Years Sight Word Sentences created by A is for Apples
• Craft with Visual Directions for the New Year created by Simply Visual
• New Year Mini Flippy Flap Books created by Big Ideas for Little Hands
• New Year Digital Interactive Notebook created by Big Ideas for Little Hands

If you are interested in more fun, engaging, New Years activities, be sure to check out the link at the end of this blog post.  Also, the video below demonstrates the kids doing the New Years Build-a-Poem activity . 

Free Gingerbread Activities

• Gingerbread House Writing Craftivity created by Literacy with Littles
• Word Wall Gingerbread Man created by Teaching Future Leaders
• Gingerbread Button Counting #0 10 created by Mrs. Jackson’s Little Learners
• Gingerbread Ten Frame Mats created by The Chatty Kinder
• Counting Frames with Gingerbread Man created by Pink Polka Dots and Pre k
• Gumdrops and Gingerbread Patterns Reader created by Up and Away in Pre k
• Gingerbread Counting 10 & 20 Frames created by Little Journeys in Pre k and K
• Christmas Ornament 2 D Shape Clipart created by Little Bunnies Designs
• Christmas Counting Presents #0 10 created by Little Bunnies Designs
• Rainbow Chimneys with & without Santa created by Little Bunnies Designs

Get Your Free Holiday Printables for Kids

You can access your free Winter Holiday Bundle, HERE.  

When you download the bundle, you will see several pages of “Meet the Authors”, followed by lists similar to the ones above. 

Click on any or all of the resources you’d like, and print from there.  Enjoy!  Thanks for stopping by!

Before you go, here are more posts you’ll enjoy:

25 Free Christmas Kindergarten Worksheets

35 New Years Crafts for Kids

15 Fun Winter Poems for Kids

Free Holiday Printables for Kids

I love this bundle…thank you, thank you, thank you! I was disappointed that the NYE bundle by purple classroom had the date 2018 on it, I would have liked to use it with my class. It’s so cute

Thanks so much, Laura. I’m happy you love it! I’m sure, Alexa from the Perfectly Purple Classroom, will see this and update her section.

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By popular demand, we've started to make Holiday worksheets. What you see below is just a start. There is much more to come!

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Celebrate major holidays and special events with our holiday worksheets that encompass a blend of math, literacy and craft activities. Learn more about the occasion by incorporating these themed worksheets on Friendship Day, Back-to-school, Labor Day, Columbus Day, Halloween and many more to be added to the list. Enjoy festive breaks without having to worry about preparing themed worksheets anymore!

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New Year Worksheets

Kick-start the year with these New Year worksheets for kindergarten through grade 8; featuring coloring activities, sudoku puzzle, scientific notation riddle, crossword and word search. Make New Year resolutions, tell the time and solve money word problems too!

Martin Luther King Jr. Worksheets

This bundle of themed worksheets on Martin Luther King Jr. are meticulously drafted for children of kindergarten through grade 4. Included here are worksheets to color and math activities like simplifying fractions, adding and subtracting numbers and rounding decimals. Find literacy activities like word search, word puzzles, writing prompts, reading comprehension, timeline and more!

Valentine's Day Worksheets

Spread the universal language of love and celebrate Saint Valentine's Day this February 14th with themed printable Valentine's Day worksheets consisting of literacy, math, craft and coloring activities. Make bracelets and cards, add, subtract, multiply and divide the numbers, decode cryptograms, learn Valentine's vocabulary, unscramble words and play the Valentine's Bingo too.

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Encourage children to research about the presidents and their contributions. Incorporate the Presidents' Day worksheets encompassing fun activities like coloring, dot-to-dot, alphabetizing, identifying president names, word search, making words and sentences, writing prompts, president research project, addition, subtraction, multiplication and division puzzles and a lot more!

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This March, explore our Women's History Month themed worksheets encompassing skills like coloring, identifying the famous women in history, matching activities, 'Who am I?' riddles, word search, crossword, picture puzzle and much more!

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Explore March 14 worksheets or Pi Day worksheets with fun activities like vocabulary word search, pie fraction riddle, find the circumference of the assorted pies, compute the area of circles to solve a maze, calculate the diameter, circumference and area of circular objects, complete the 5-in-1 activity, and learn more about Pi using the writing prompt.

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This compilation of St. Patrick's Day themed worksheets features skills like contractions, alphabetization, jumbled words, classifying nouns, identifying tenses and the bingo game for children to remember the great Saint.

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Designed for children of kindergarten through grade 5, this batch of Easter worksheets is a complete package comprising a card, a calendar and a multitude of amazing activities like Easter egg hunt, Easter Bunny craft, syllable sort, read and color, making sentences, scrambled sentences, Easter egg decoration, writing prompts, reading comprehension, puzzles and more.

Earth Day Worksheets

Create awareness among little kids with this compilation of Earth Day worksheets and activities comprising an Earth Day card, plan a Nature walk, write about the 3R’s reduce, reuse and recycle using the writing prompt, sort what you can and can’t recycle, solve multiplication equations to make your Earth Day poster and organize data with a bar graph and more!

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Celebrate the myriad hues of motherhood with our Mother's Day themed worksheets. Gift mother an exquisite Greeting Card and a 'ready to make' crown, indulge in an engaging writing spree, solve the intriguing picture puzzles and riddles and enjoy an adoring poem to make this day special and memorable.

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Get a bang out of answering our fun end of the year worksheets! Take autographs from your classmates, discuss your favorite book and word of the year, talk about your favorites then and now, answer an end-of-the-year word search, and so much more.

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Are you set to welcome Father's Day with zeal and fervor? Our Father's Day themed worksheets seek to make the occasion twice as special. Print these worksheets and declare to the world that your dad is forever your superhero.

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What are your plans for Independence Day this time around? Well, you will most likely need no further fireworks, with our Independence Day worksheets ringing in the much-awaited day with grandeur.

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Make everlasting memories with your friends using these friendship day worksheets. Pair up with your friends in making and exchanging bracelets, search words, connect dots, read bar graphs and pictographs, decode riddles, solve themed word problems and a lot more!

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Commemorate the efforts of the explorer and celebrate Columbus Day with skill enhancing activities like coloring, addition and subtraction activity, decoding multiplication riddles, counting pictures, solving crosswords, skip count to trace your path through the mazes and much more.

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These spooky, scary Halloween worksheets are sure to send shivers down your spine. Describe your Halloween costume using the writing prompts, make plurals, search words, rattle your brains with crosswords and mazes and solve the 'Spooktacular' speed word problems as well.

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Commemorate the contributions of brave men and women who serve in the US military using these Veterans Day worksheets, with literacy activities like Veterans Day vocabulary, unscramble sentences, reading comprehension and math activities like plotting ordered pairs, estimating money and more!

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Ponder and reflect on the innumerable things you are thankful for. Utilize this combo of math and literacy worksheets featuring Thanksgiving Day vocabulary, recognition of proper and common nouns, identifying the type of sentences, learn symmetry, part-to-part ratios, plug in missing numbers to mention a few.

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Get a dose of holiday cheer with these Christmas themed worksheets for kindergarten through grade four, featuring PDFs on addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, plotting line plots, patterns, connecting dots, coloring pictures, picture puzzles, odd, even, prime, composite and ordinal numbers, Christmas vocabulary and word scramble to mention just a few!

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Free pdf holiday math worksheets for k–6 (winter & christmas), by: jeff todd.

As the holidays approach it’s always nice to come up with some themed problems for your students to solve in math class. I’m excited to offer these sets of holiday math worksheets organized by grade level. These are great problems from the Sadlier archives that contain strong math content. While they are organized by grade level, you could use these printable holiday math worksheets across grades to differentiate for the various ability levels in your math class.

Holiday & Christmas Math Worksheets

The problems represent a number of themes from the holiday season: snowmen, reindeer, decorations, holiday snacks, jingle bells and sleigh rides, bells, mistletoe, garland, bows, ornaments, poinsettias, toy workshops and even football!

Please find below a brief description of each of the free downloads .

Holiday & Christmas Math Problems for Grades K–2

Kindergarten: Addition and subtraction within ten is the subject using snowmen, reindeer, gingerbread men and bells.

Grade 1: Counting on and the relationship between addition and subtraction within 100 including comparing numbers are used to solve problems about a sleigh ride, decorating the tree with ornaments and jingle bells. A great opportunity to sing the song!

Grade 2: Of course we are starting to get into bigger numbers here and using more than one operation in a problem. Arrays using addition set a foundation for multiplication concepts. Students can discuss Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker , gingerbread cookies and a holiday train ride.

Holiday & Christmas Math Problems for Grades 3 and 4

Grade 3: Students are using, arrays, multiplication patterns to solve problems about mistletoe, garland, bows and poinsettias.

Grade 4: Students take a trip to the holiday museum and solve problems about reindeer and ornaments using the topics of multiplicative comparisons, equations with a variable, and estimation.

Holiday & Christmas Math Problems for Grades 5 and 6

Grade 5: Peppermint cookies and gingerbread houses provide the backdrop for problems about multi-digit multiplication, single digit division, and decimals.

Grade 6: A toy workshop and holiday football are the context for multi-step problems with fractions, decimals, common multiples as well as equations and inequalities.

These free holiday downloads are great for students at each grade level or can be used to differentiate for the different ability levels of students within your class. Download them all to use in the classroom and then spread some holiday cheer and share with co-workers at each grade level!

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Unwrap the Magic of Learning with Holiday-inspired Activities

Explore a delightful collection of holiday-themed worksheets designed for kindergarten learners. Engage in festive learning with a variety of activities, from Christmas math and coloring to Easter phonics and Valentine's Day literacy exercises. Discover educational fun for holidays like St. Patrick's Day, Thanksgiving, Halloween, and more. Each month brings new opportunities to reinforce skills through New Year's reflections, Presidents' Day history, and Memorial Day vocabulary. Whether it's counting candy canes or solving Valentine's Day word problems, these worksheets make learning engaging and festive for young minds.

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Our holiday worksheets are designed to be convenient for educators and families. We offer three options to access our free worksheets. You can download the PDF file, print it from your browser, or use the online version of our kindergarten worksheets. These options allow you to save, print, or complete our worksheets directly on our website. By providing these flexible options, we aim to make learning holiday accessible, convenient, and engaging for teachers, parents, and kids.

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• Christmas Color by Addition Worksheet
• Christmas Tree Coloring Worksheet
• Christmas Word Search Worksheet
• Christmas Spot the Difference Worksheet
• Santa Maze Activity Worksheet
• Santa Counting Worksheet
• Counting Candy Canes Worksheet
• Christmas Subtraction Worksheet
• Christmas Spelling Worksheet
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• Christmas Bar Graph Worksheet
• Christmas Counting Worksheet
• Christmas Cookie Patterns Worksheet
• Christmas Color by Number Worksheet
• Santa's Workshop Classification Worksheet
• Christmas Measurement Worksheet
• Christmas Addition Worksheet
• Christmas Prepositions Worksheet

Kindergarten Easter Worksheets

• Easter Reading Worksheet
• Easter Missing Numbers Worksheet
• Easter Phonics Worksheet
• Free Easter Math Worksheet
• Easter Color by Number Worksheet
• Easter CVC Words Activity Worksheet
• Easter Color by Sight Word Worksheet
• Easter Addition Worksheet
• Easter Subtraction Worksheet
• Easter Patterns Worksheet
• Easter Writing Worksheet

Kindergarten Valentine's Day Worksheets

• Valentine's Day Beginning Sounds Worksheet
• Valentine's Day Math Worksheet
• Valentine's Day Basics Worksheet
• Valentine's Day Vocabulary Worksheet
• Valentine's Day Color by Number Worksheet
• Valentine's Day Phonics Worksheet
• Valentine's Day Reading Comprehension Worksheet
• Valentine's Day Color by Subtraction Worksheet
• Valentine's Day Word Search Worksheet
• Valentine's Day Greeting Card Worksheet
• Valentine's Day Maze Worksheet
• Valentine's Day Color by Letter Worksheet

Kindergarten St. Patrick’s Day Worksheets

• St. Patrick's Day Sight Words Worksheet
• St. Patrick's Day Addition Worksheet
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I have so many fond memories from holiday seasons growing up: the smell of delicious food being made by my Mexican and Filipino families, warm light on the faces of my relatives, and lots of laughter. As I got older, though, things changed—mostly because I had so much homework to do.

Instead of joking with our relatives at the holidays, my brother and I would often sequester ourselves at the edge of the room, thick textbooks open and pens in our hands. Sometimes, we’d miss events altogether. When we did attend, the ramifications could be intense. During one spring break, I chose to go to an Easter party with my family. But by midnight, I was stress-weeping because I had so much work to do by the next day.

As a teacher, I now understand the temptation to give work over school breaks. There never seems to be enough time to do the projects or read the texts I’d like to with my kids, and asking students to work or read during breaks eases that crunch. I also worry that my students will lose some of their learning in the weeks they are gone.

Recently, though, my school created a new homework policy that, among other things, encourages us to avoid giving students work over extended school breaks. Our administration cited studies that raise questions about the benefits of hefty doses of homework.

I worried about how this new plan would affect my curriculum pacing, and about what my students might “lose.” But I realized that my concerns were really about my desires, not what was best for my students.

The new policy led me to re-evaluate my assignments and timing, and I ended up being able to make adjustments so my kids could complete necessary projects without working when they should be recharging. I’d worried about my students’ learning, but recent research challenges our long-held belief that students’ learning “slides” significantly over long breaks.

Taking the stress of homework out of my students’ holiday breaks is important. They deserve an opportunity to relax and rejuvenate as much as I do—particularly if they are overscheduled to begin with. Young or old, we all need rejuvenation time. In addition, more studies are demonstrating the benefits of down time for students. Having unstructured time recharges them, but also allows their brains to build connections that strengthen and improve their executive functioning.

We need to be mindful of other factors that complicate homework assignments over holiday breaks. We don’t always know what our students’ lives are like outside our classrooms. Do they struggle with access to the resources necessary to complete assignments? Do they have stressful home situations?

Here are a few ways we can send our students off on a positive note when they leave us for holiday breaks. I’m trying them myself this winter!

Provide activities that support students reconnecting with themselves, their loved ones, or their community.

While we want to avoid giving mandatory work to students, we can offer opportunities and ideas for learning-friendly activities they can do during their break. Maybe that’s an optional/extra credit project that asks students to interview a family or community member (though we should also provide time after break for those who couldn’t work over break). Or maybe we can offer students some ideas about how they could use their time to take care of themselves or their communities. We could provide reflection questions once they’re back from break, to help them find meaning in the experience. Encouraging students to use their time to volunteer or take care of themselves allows us to help our kids grow not just as students, but as people.

Offer opportunities to find a new passion, set goals, or reflect.

While some students may travel or connect with family, some of our kids may have a lot of free time over their break. We can encourage them to use the time to set goals for the year, dream big and draw or write their five-year plan (remind them this is for fun and plans will change!), or reflect on their year or life so far. We can also encourage students to discover something they’re passionate about, or use the time to pursue something they love.

Deepen your relationships with students and allow them to open up to you.

Sometimes, our kids are simply not given the space to dive deeply into something that lets them tell us who they are. Give students a project that allows them to explore their identity or have them write a story about their lives. This will not only provide some critical thinking, reading, or writing enrichment, but more importantly will provide valuable insight into our students’ lives and help us build deeper connections with our students. We can return the favor by completing the project ourselves or writing a story and sharing it with them.

After the break, see what stuck with students.

Instead of returning from break with the mindset of what was “lost,” give students a chance to share everything they remember from the last unit. Instead of assuming they all had a great time they want to share, welcome kids back with an opportunity to celebrate the experiences that stuck with them from their breaks. Help students generate a class-created study guide so they can review what they learned before the break. This gives them space to support one another and remind each other what they learned, as well as gives us an opportunity to praise students for what they’ve retained. It also provides important feedback for us on what stuck over the break and what we need to reteach.

Ultimately, our students look to us not just for academic growth, but to support their growth as human beings as well. Taking away homework stress over break may cause us to change our short-term plans, but providing them with opportunities and resources instead can have some long-term benefits that can change their self-perception and their lives more than a packet of homework ever could.

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8 top holiday literacy resources your students will love + freebies.

December is often a busy time not just in the classroom, but in our personal lives as well. That coupled with the holiday excitement that the students bring to school each day, it can feel overwhelming to manage everyone and everything. I found over the years that when I bring the holiday fun into the classroom with purposeful, engaging activities, things seem to feel a bit less chaotic. So I say let’s bring on the Polar Express, holidays around the world, and reindeer by including holiday literacy activities in lesson planning.

Today I want to share some of my favorite holiday literacy resources to add some holiday cheer to your literacy block. Additionally, many of these resources also make great displays for the hallway or your classroom.

Why I Love Integrating Literacy and Holidays

During a busy season like the holidays, you can make more time to do fun holiday activities and crafts when you get creative with how you fit them into your day. Through read alouds, shared reading, interactive notebook activities, writing crafts, and themed centers, we can easily integrate reading and writing through the season to bring holiday cheer in our classrooms while improving literacy skills.

I also love any opportunity to sneak in extra practice with writing conventions, reading comprehension, and word work. When we do activities that are truly engaging, my students don’t always realize that they are learning and practicing important skills at the same time.

Top Holiday Literacy Activities

These are some of my favorite holiday literacy activities for kinder, first, and second grades. I also sprinkled in some freebies , so be sure to check them out!

December Literacy Stations

One great way to bring holiday literacy activities to your classroom is through literacy centers. Holiday-themed literacy stations always bring cheer to your reading block time! The December Literacy Stations has seven centers for you to use this month:

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• Pocket Chart

With simple-to-prep stations, you and your students will all love these engaging activities!

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Gingerbread Writing Craftivity

The Gingerbread Writing Craftivity is perfect for your students to self-assess their own writing! For each writing convention, the students earn a part of their gingerbread kid. It’s a great way to integrate some meaningful writing and be purposeful with an adorable craft! Plus, the finished activity makes a great display for the holiday season.

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Gingerbread Man Activities and Literacy Activities

With 18 different reading and writing activities for everything gingerbread, this Gingerbread Printables resource will bring a ton of fun to your literacy time! The gingerbread holiday literacy activities include retelling, sequencing, comparing different gingerbread books, a mini book, writing activities, and everything you need for a gingerbread man hunt!

Get the Gingerbread Printables HERE!

FREE Mouse and Movie Retelling Activity

After reading the book If You Take a Mouse to the Movies , use this FREE Mouse and Movies Retelling activity for students to practice sequencing. My students and I loved any chance we could to make a purposeful craft! For younger students, they can draw what happens in the book. First and second graders can write (and draw) the events.

Get the FREE Mouse and Movies Activity HERE!

Holiday Flip Books

These 19 Holiday Flip Books are perfect for your social studies or science interactive notebooks. They can be used after reading The Polar Express, after an elf visits your classroom, or as you learn about reindeer! They are also a great fit for teaching about Christmas Around the World and are a great way to integrate literacy!

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Christmas Around the World Flip Up Book Bundle

Do you teach Christmas around the world, but struggle to find a way for students to document their learning and keep up with each country’s traditions? The Christmas Around the World Flip Up Books are for you!

They are the perfect little activities for your students to be engaged as they learn about Christmas Around the World! Each flip book includes reading, sorting, and writing! It is easy to create with the printing instructions that are included.

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Winter Word Making Freebie

This little activity has three mystery word making activities for you to do whole group, in a small group, or even to drop in a word work center. You could also make it a competition during your holiday party. Students will use the letters provided and see how many words they can build. This activity is always a hit!

Get the Winter Work Making Freebie HERE!

Holidays Around the World Bundle

This Holidays Around the World unit helps students compare and contrast Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, and Christmas. It makes it simple to learn about Kwanzaa , Hanukkah , and Christmas as you celebrate them all! You’ll easily integrate reading and writing with social studies with each of these resources.

Each resource has graphic organizers, vocabulary cards, sorting activities, and a craft. You’ll be set for social studies for the whole month with packing in lots of literacy at the same time! I bundled them together so you get all three units for the price of two!

Get the Holidays Around the World Bundle HERE!

I know the month of December can feel a little chaotic in the classroom. That’s why I like to harness the holiday excitement and integrate holiday fun into reading and writing as much as possible. All of these holiday literacy activities do just that! You can also shop my whole shop’s Christmas and holiday section of resources HERE .

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Beloved winter holidays present an excellent opportunity to engage students while teaching about cultures and traditions from around the world, as well as winter-related science and language arts topics. 

All of the following winter holiday lessons and activities are easy to access, use and enjoy. Best of all, they’re 100% free! 

National WWI Museum and Memorial: The Christmas Truce, Winter 1914 From the National World War I Museum and Memorial, this remarkable online exhibition explores the unofficial but documented truce between trench warfare combatants along parts of both the Western and the Eastern fronts. Includes extensive primary source material as well as photos, video, and explanatory text. In a quirky twist, users may declare a truce of their own on any topic, as well as voting on others’ truces. 

Counting Christmas Trees A standards-aligned lesson based on sales of Christmas trees that can be customized for students in grades K-8. Included are PDF materials, questions, lesson extensions, and a brief assessment.  

Weather for Kids Obviously, “weather” is not limited to the winter. Nonetheless, in many parts of the country wintertime is associated with colder temperatures, snow, ice, and other weather-related phenomena. This robust collection of experiments, videos, lessons, projects, and games offers a broad range of teaching and learning options. 

National Weather Service: Why We have Seasons What makes it winter now, and not spring, fall, or summer? Hint: It’s not related to Earth’s distance from the sun. In this compact lesson from the National Weather Service, students will learn what causes seasons as well as related information about the movement of the Earth relative to the Sun, and a myth about eggs and the spring equinox. Still curious about seasons? Visit the related page Meteorological Versus Astronomical Seasons . 

PBS Learning Media: Why Do We Have Seasons? A complete, standards-aligned interactive lesson exploring Earth’s year-long trek around the Sun. Grades 3-12, shareable to Google Classroom. 

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Googley Wintertime Activities for Kids Google expert Eric Curts presents awesome digital activities for holiday fun and learning. Try the all-digital magnetic poetry, holiday greeting cards, pixel art, or any of the eight activities. All include full instructions as well as digital templates. 

Make your own holiday greeting card Select images, font, background colors, and greeting to create a customized printable greeting card for your favorite winter holiday. Don’t forget to include a fun graphic on the back. Great for kids of all ages. 

All about Christmas A treasure trove of Christmas traditions, customs, and activities, including Christmas crosswords, quizzes, and puzzles. Christmas song Karaoke, anyone?

Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights Teach the story of Hanukkah, then add the grade-based reading, writing, and art activities to your December classroom instruction. 

December Holiday Lesson Plans and Activities A wealth of cross-curricular winter holiday lessons and activities for students of all ages. Explore the history of games and toys, try the "Re-Name That Tune" vocabulary exercise, or delve into Dickens’ A Christmas Carol . 

Kwanzaa This detailed article from the History Channel covers the history, principles, and symbols of Kwanzaa. Educators can use it to launch a classroom discussion about the importance of rituals in building communities, or how students can put the seven principles into use in their everyday lives. 

Give your students the Dickens! According to some scholars, Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol is the single greatest literary influence on our modern Christmas customs. Explore these student-friendly ways to study not only A Christmas Carol , but also 19th-century English society. Both encompass themes relevant to today’s world, such as poverty, inequality, and how we treat our fellow humans.  

Online Kwanzaa Games Practice math and language skills while having fun with these Kwanzaa-themed digital games and puzzles.   

Online Hanukkah Activities Kids learn the history and rituals of Hanukkah through engaging activities, including digital Dreidel games, crossword puzzles, and coloring pages. These digital activities are printable too! 

Christmas Interactive Slides This Spanish-language digital slideshow helps students learn about Christmas traditions in Spanish-speaking locales, from Spain to Mexico. Perfect for Spanish language class.    

Interactive lessons from PBS: Celebrating Winter Celebrate the season with a bounty of winter-related interactive lessons in math, biology, art, religion, and poetry. These preK-12 lessons are standards-aligned, sharable and integrated with Google classroom.

Crafts for Kids Kids will enjoy creating a Winter Wonderland Terrarium using only empty jar, twigs, pinecones, and trinket toys. Be sure to check out the Cotton Swab Snowflakes for another easy and fun winter art project. 

Online Christmas Puzzles and Games Fun online interactives for younger learners include puzzles featuring Santa and the elves, a Santa and Rudolph coloring page, and a digital math game, video lesson, and worksheet. 

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Homework-free holidays improve schoolchildren’s learning abilities, Hong Kong study finds

• Study conducted by Hong Kong Christian Service and Baptist University examined 806 pupils from four schools
• Students say they felt they were learning better after a break during which they did things other than homework

Giving students a homework-free long holiday to allow them to do their own learning would help them become more confident in their learning abilities and life management skills, a Hong Kong study released on Wednesday has found.

Conducted by the Hong Kong Christian Service and Baptist University, the study looked at how 806 pupils from four schools who took part in a no-homework programme assessed their academic competency and capacity to manage everyday life before and after the Easter holidays this year.

The results were analysed alongside a control group of 619 pupils from two schools, who were assigned homework.

Pupils who took part in the programme for the first time – 542 of them – gave themselves an average score of 3.46 on a five-point scale for their academic competence after the holidays, up from 3.35 before the break.

In contrast, those in the control group gave themselves an average of 3.34, which was slightly lower than 3.35 before the holidays, which typically lasts around 10 days for schoolchildren in Hong Kong.

“A rubber band will break if you stretch it too far,” said Wong Kwun-wa, principal of the Hong Kong Sze Yap Commercial and Industrial Association San Wui Commercial Society School.

Even more encouraging were the results for those taking part in the programme for the second time.

The 264 pupils from two schools participating in the repeat experience gave themselves an average of 3.41 for academic competence after the holiday, compared with 3.14 before.

Professor Vicky Tam Chiu-wan, associate head of Baptist University’s department of education studies, explained that giving children space to pursue other interests had a stimulating effect.

Similarly, pupils who participated in the programme also improved in terms of their self-assessed capacity to manage everyday life.

Those taking part in the programme for the first time got an average of 3.11 after the holidays, up from 3.09 before.

The control group saw a slight dip, from 3.16 to 3.15 after the holidays.

Meanwhile, those taking part in the programme for the second time gave themselves an average of 3.18 after the holidays, up from 2.92.

“I got onto the table tennis team this school year,” said King Sze Hung-hoi, an eight-year-old pupil from the Church of Christ in China Kei Tsz Primary School. He was taking part in the programme for the second time. Last year, he had time to pick up table tennis as a new interest after practising with his parents over the holidays.

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Sze said he hoped the programme would continue this year and that he planned on learning how to make Chinese tea.

Yip Wai-wan, a teacher from Asbury Methodist Primary School, which took part in the programme, said that, before the programme was implemented, she had been worried about pupils’ academic performance and attitude.

“Will they forget what they learned in school after a long holiday?” she wondered, but she later realised after the programme that her concerns were unfounded.

Viola Tsang Yuen-kei, a chief supervisor from the Christian Service, stressed that a homework-free holiday did not mean doing no work. Instead, pupils have to set aims to pursue other extracurricular interests, which will benefit their growth.

“There is a point in doing homework, but throughout the school year, there are a few long holidays such as Christmas, Easter and Lunar New Year,” she said, adding that it would be good for at least one holiday to be freed up for pupils to pursue other forms of learning rather than doing the usual copying and memorising tasks.

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