Christmas 2024 Teaching Resources
Download teacher-created Christmas activities for your classroom — from Christmas coloring pages to Santa worksheets to beautifully designed Christmas classroom decorations and printable holiday craft templates! Get a jump start on your activity planning and decorating with ready-made resources created by teachers for teachers like you.
Every resource in this collection is available for download, and each has undergone a rigorous review by the teachers on the Teach Starter team to ensure they’re student-ready.
Looking for some ideas to get Christmas ready in the classroom? Read on for some tip from our teacher team!
When Is Christmas 2024?
You probably don't need us to tell you that Christmas is celebrated on December 25 every year — but how will this affect the school calendar? In 2023, the federal holiday will be Wednesday, December 25.
Basically, that means the last day of school could be as late as December 24 this year — that's the Tuesday before Christmas. Of course, the last day before winter break varies by school.
What Should I Do for Christmas in School?
Celebrating the December holiday in the classroom this year, but not sure where to get started? The teachers on the Teach Starter team have got you covered with fun Christmas activities for your classroom! Give any of these a try:
- Take a photo of each student, and have students create photo frames to take home to parents, guardians, or someone special this holiday.
- Set up a holiday photo booth for some fun in the classroom (the photos can be used in the gifts for their loved ones)!
- Partner with another class to buddy up and make gingerbread houses together out of graham crackers.
- Practice writing letters with a holiday card writing assignment or — for the younger kids — a Santa letter writing assignment.
- Challenge your students to 12 days of kindness in honor of the holiday season.
- Learn about other cultural celebrations of Christmas from around the world.
How to Decorate a Classroom for Christmas
Decorating your classroom for Christmas and need some ideas? We have you covered there too! Try these options:
- Decorate your classroom door with a Christmas theme.
- Set up a fake tree or a live tree, and have students add ornaments that they decorate themselves. At the end of December, students can collect their ornaments to take home to their parents or guardians as gifts.
- Set up a Christmas bulletin board or a winter bulletin board that you can keep up into January (and beyond).
- Create paper gingerbread houses with your students to bring the festive feel into the classroom – but keep hungry critters out!
- Craft Christmas poinsettias that will liven the room up and bring a bright feel even if you've got dreary winter weather outside.
Celebrating Christmas in the Classroom — A Few Teacher Tips
Before holding any Christmas-related celebrations in the classroom, you may want to check the rules in your district and/or school building as well as considering the different types of kids in your classroom.
Incorporating holiday fun … that’s simple … can be a good way to keep your December a bit more even-keeled. And hey, no one ever said that your holiday classroom activities couldn’t be educational and incorporated into your regular routines.
We’ve put together a huge mix of printable Christmas craft templates that are fun and educational too. In addition to the many Christmas worksheets and activities, we have an entire collection of general winter resources for teachers to use to be inclusive of children from all backgrounds.
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Christmas Activity Mats
Use these Christmas activity mats during morning arrival on the last day before Christmas break.
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Christmas Math Worksheets - Addition and Subtraction Mazes
Navigate these Christmas math mazes with addition and subtraction facts to keep those minds active!
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Giant Coloring Sheet - Christmas
Create a one-of-a-kind Christmas art display with this class collaboration coloring activity.
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Christmas Symmetry Worksheets - Mirrored Drawing Activity
Explore symmetry with these printable Christmas-themed symmetry worksheets.
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DIY Pop-Up Christmas Cards - Summer Santa
Make your own Christmas pop-up cards with your students with a printable Summer Santa Pop Up Card Template.
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Christmas Paper Bag Puppets
Make paper bag puppets for Christmas fun with a printable paper bag puppet template.
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Santa Claus Coloring Page
Use a Santa Claus coloring page as a fun art activity with your students.
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Digital Learning Background – Holiday Lights
A special virtual background teachers and students can use around the winter holidays.
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Printable Christmas Mini Envelopes
Print a set of 4 holiday-themed mini envelopes for a special letter this Christmas Season.
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Twelve Days of Christmas Kindness – Christmas Bulletin Board
Spread holiday cheer with this random acts of kindness Chrismas bulletin board display.
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Holiday Mini-Mystery – Who Broke the Candy Cane?
A fun, logic-based holiday activity where students read clues to solve the mystery.
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Tricks in 60 Ticks Task Cards
A collection of 10 active games that take 60 seconds each!
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Search and Find – Santa's Sleigh
Santa's sleigh search and find activity.
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Christmas Word Search
Help spread holiday cheer with our Christmas word search.
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Christmas Lights Decoration — Printable Classroom Decor
Download these printable Christmas light decorations for your classroom bulletin board or classroom door decor.
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Readers' Theater Script - Santa's Cold
A script that can be used in reading or theater class.
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Pine Trees - Border Trimmers
Brighten up your bulletin boards for Christmas with pine tree bulletin board borders.
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Santa's Reindeer - Christmas Word Search
Help Santa find his reindeer in time for the holidays with our Christmas word search.
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Christmas Tree Coloring Page - Mindful Coloring
Celebrate the Christmas Season with a fun Christmas tree coloring page.
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Mindfulness Christmas Coloring Sheet - Stocking
Practice mindfulness and spark cheer with this Christmas coloring page.
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Mindful Coloring - Christmas Coloring Sheets
Use a Christmas mindful coloring sheet as a fun art activity with your students.
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Christmas Reindeer Coloring Page
Add to your collection of Christmas at school coloring pages with a printable reindeer coloring sheet for kids.
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Santa Coloring Sheet
A Santa coloring sheet.
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Holiday Snow Globe – Craft Images
Images to be used when creating DIY snow globes with your students.
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- Christmas 2024 Logic Puzzles
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- Christmas 2024 Cut and Paste Worksheets
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- Christmas 2024 Classroom Door Decorations
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- Christmas 2024 Crossword Puzzles
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- Christmas 2024 Bingo
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- Christmas 2024 Tracing Worksheets
- Christmas 2024 Instructional Slide Decks
- Christmas 2024 Tarsia Puzzles
- Christmas 2024 Word Walls
- Christmas 2024 Connect the Dots
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