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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How to Build a Snowman - Procedural Writing Worksheets
Explain how to build a snowman with a pack of printable procedural writing worksheets
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Ugly Christmas Sweater - Dice Drawing Game
Roll your way to the perfect ugly Christmas sweater with a printable Christmas dice game.
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Save Santa's Workshop – Escape Room for Kids
A fun and festive escape room activity where students solve clues to save Santa's Workshop.
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Funky Reindeer Craft Template
Download the famous Teach Starter funky reindeer template! This Christmas craft activity is perfect for practicing Zentangle patterns.
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Christmas Capitalization Worksheet
Reinforce capitalization rules for months, proper nouns, titles, the pronoun I, and more with a Christmas capitalization worksheet.
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Winter Bulletin Board - Warm Up with a Good Book
Display book reviews all winter long with a hot cocoa-themed Winter bulletin board kit.
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Christmas Interactive: Singular and Plural Nouns
Practice using singular and plural nouns with a fun Christmas-themed digital resource.
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Christmas Math Tasks - Attributes of Shapes Activity
Combine Christmas and math with these 2D and 3D Shape Christmas Math Review Task Cards.
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Roll to Create a Gingerbread House
Have some Christmas fun without the mess with a Roll-to-Create Gingerbread House Art activity.
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Tessellation Christmas Tree - Printable Project
Engage your students in the weeks before Christmas with a collaborative Christmas Tree Tessellation project.
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Funky Christmas Gnome Craft Template
Get ready for Christmas with this popular gnome craft featuring a customizable Zentangle Pattern Christmas Gnome with funky glasses and holiday accessories.
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A Teacher’s Favorite Things List
Organize your school gift exchange in advance with a printable Teacher Favorite Things form!
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Christmas Singular and Plural Noun Worksheets
Review plural noun rules and add some holiday fun to your Language Arts lessons with a set of printable plural and singular noun worksheets.
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Secret Santa Questionnaire Template
Hand out a Secret Santa Questionnaire to kick off your classroom or school-wide Secret Santa Game!
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Mindful Coloring Ornaments - Christmas Papercraft
Practice mindfulness while making ornaments with a set of elegant mindful coloring Christmas ornament templates.
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Santa’s New Sleigh - Christmas STEM Activity
Design and build a new sleigh for Santa with a printable Christmas STEM project.
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Jingle Jumble - Free Christmas Search-a-Word
Use this free holiday word search to build vocabulary and spelling skills in your classroom this Christmas season.
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Interactive Build A Snowman Sequencing Activity
Practice sequencing and writing procedural texts with an interactive How to Build a Snowman game.
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Ugly Christmas Sweater Design Project
Design an ugly Christmas sweater to earn your way into Santa’s Workshop with a printable Christmas STEM Project!
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Santa's Mix-Up - Place Value & Expanded Form Math Worksheets
Add some Christmas spirit to your place value lesson plans with printable Christmas place value worksheets for 2nd graders.
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Snowman Tree Topper Template
A snowman tree topper template for your students to decorate.
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Verb Tense Printable Christmas Activity Cards
Practice identifying past, present, and future tense verbs with a set of Christmas Verb Tense Task Cards!
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Brazilian Tinsel Tail Bird Ornament Craft
Introduce students to Christmas in Brazil with a printable tinsel-tailed bird Christmas ornament template.
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Christmas Gnome Craft Template - Sweden
Introduce your students to one of Sweden’s most popular Christmas figures with a printable “tomte” or gnome craft template.
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