‘Tis the season to add Christmas drawing activities to your teacher toolkit? Whether you’re looking for a holiday-themed directed drawing activity or an independent art project for kids, drawing Christmas favourites in the classroom is a perfect task for a classroom party before the summer holidays!
And if you’re looking for a simple gift students can make in the classroom to take home to their parents or carers, a drawing made by your students for the holidays is about as simple — but still meaningful — as it gets.
With that in mind, the teachers of the Teach Starter team have compiled this list of some of our favourite Christmas drawing activities for kids, including some videos that you’ll want to bookmark, plus a few holiday books that you can pair with each activity!
Christmas Drawing Activities for Kids
Drawing Santa Claus
Santa Claus is the star of the show for many kids on Christmas, so we need to start things off with the jolly old guy from the North Pole! Introduce students to the various names that Santa goes by around the world, from Weihnachtsmann in Germany to Papa Noel in France, then move on to any of these fun Santa drawing activities:
- Watch a directed drawing activity video that walks students through the steps of drawing Santa’s whole body.
- Design Santa’s sleigh while studying various shapes with a maths drawing activity.
- Practise grid drawing Santa and other holiday characters, including a Christmas tree!
Reindeer Drawing Activities
This drawing activity comes straight from the Arctic, where reindeer run the tundra and pull Santa’s sleigh, of course.
Read the silly kid-favourite book How to Catch a Reindeer by Alice Walstead, then have your students follow along with this simple how to draw a reindeer video to create their own magical creature.
Students can then write a paragraph describing how they caught their own reindeer!
Looking for an easy gift you can send home with younger students for the summer holidays? Print out these fun reindeer guided drawing worksheets, and pair them with small bags of reindeer food (oats and glitter) for students to take home on the last day of the school year.
How to Draw a Snowman
Do you wanna … draw … a snowman? This free directed drawing activity video will walk your students through the process of creating their own Frosty creation.
Pair this snowman directed drawing activity with a fun procedural activity: How to Build a Snowman.
Gingerbread Drawing Activity
The Gingerbread Man is the perfect fairy tale to explore during the holiday season. The tale of the little cookie who taunts a fox as he runs inspires countless writing activities, from practising ‘how to’ writing with paragraphs about the best way to catch the impish gingerbread man to persuasive essays written in the form of letters from a student to the gingerbread man, persuading him to stop running.
Why not add a drawing element to your lesson plan? Have students decorate their own gingerbread people to accompany their writing!
Christmas Elf Drawing Activities
Elves may spend most of their time behind the scenes in Santa’s workshop, but these holiday creatures can come front and centre for some fun drawing activities in the classroom! Try any of these activities from our teacher team:
- Play a how to draw an elf directed drawing video.
- Bring out the dice for a roll and draw an elf activity.
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