Holidays Teaching Resources
If you're on the hunt for holiday-themed worksheets and printables to mark the big days and weeks throughout the school year, you know that the school year calendar is chock full of moments big and small to mark with your elementary students.
Whether you're the consummate planner who has all your classroom decorations set weeks in advance, or another classroom holiday just popped up and you realized you need a quick activity for your students, this collection of teaching resources has you covered.
This extensive collection of holiday activities for kids and event resources for the classroom is teacher-created and has been rigorously reviewed by the expert teacher team at Teach Starter to make sure every printable worksheet, holiday craft, digital resource, and classroom decoration is ready for you!
You'll find holiday crafts for kids and holiday cards from Thanksgiving to Valentine's Day, Veterans Day to Presidents' Day, plus curriculum-aligned holiday teaching resources for math, science, reading, writing, and more for each American holiday (big and small).
Also included are resources to help you mark the major awareness weeks and celebrations throughout the school year such as Red Ribbon Week, Fire Prevention Week, and more.
Holiday Teaching Resources Included
Whatever the holiday you're looking to celebrate in the classroom, this collection has you covered with interactive activities, bulletin board kits and classroom door decorations, printable word searches, coloring pages, and more.
Celebrations within this teacher-created resource collection include:
- Halloween
- Presidents' Day
- Veterans Day
- Thanksgiving
- Valentine's Day
- September 11th/Patriot Day
- Constitution Day
- International Dot Day
- Grandparents Day
- Christmas
- Easter
- Labor Day
- Dia de Los Muertos
- New Year's Eve
- Lunar New Year
- Election Day
- St Patrick's Day
- Eid al-Adha
- And more!
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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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Christmas Trivia Advent Calendar Interactive
Host a Christmas trivia game show with an interactive advent calendar trivia game.
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New Year's Goals Worksheet
Use this goal-setting worksheet to get your students excited for the new year.
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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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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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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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Tessellation Christmas Tree - Printable Project
Engage your students in the weeks before Christmas with a collaborative Christmas Tree Tessellation project.
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Christmas Vocabulary Word Wall
Spread holiday cheer with 60 Christmas-themed vocabulary cards for your word wall.
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New Year's Pop-Up Card
Ring in the new year in your classroom with this engaging 3-D cityscape craft activity for students.
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50-Book Challenge Tracker & Printable Bookmark
Encourage your students to complete the 50 Book Reading Challenge with a printable bookmark to track their books.
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Printable Person Outline - Body Template
Create fun likenesses of your students and famous figures with a printable person online template.
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Digital Christmas Escape Room for the Classroom — Elf Investigation
This exciting Christmas escape room has been created by our teacher team to engage your upper elementary students this holiday season. Help the Mayor of Elfton catch the person responsible for some mischievous events in his town.
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Christmas Around the World - 4th Grade Reading Comprehension
Discover how Christmas is celebrated in the northern and southern hemispheres with printable reading comprehension sheets for 4th grade.
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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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Christmas Crown - Santa Hat Template
Create a fun paper Christmas crown with a printable Santa hat template for kids.
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Christmas - Simple, Complex, and Compound Sentence Sort
Practice reading, identifying, and writing simple, compound, and complex sentences with a Christmas cut and paste worksheet.
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Christmas Word Scramble & Answers
Have a bit of word-friendly fun with a Christmas Word Scramble and answers.
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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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Sprinkle Kindness - Bulletin Board Set
Get your students reflecting on ways to show kindness with this interactive bulletin board!
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Search and Find – Gingerbread House
Gingerbread house search and find activity.
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Christmas Maze Printables - Holiday Vocabulary
Boost vocabulary skills and bring some Christmas spirit to your classroom with a pair of printable Christmas vocabulary worksheets!
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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 Activity Printables - Holiday Puzzles
Have some word-friendly Christmas fun with a pack of printable Christmas word games for kids.
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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.
- Holidays Templates
- Holidays Worksheets
- Holidays Craft Activities
- Holidays Games
- Holidays Writing Templates
- Holidays Puzzles
- Holidays Mini Book
- Holidays Labels Signs Decorations
- Holidays Task Cards
- Holidays Coloring Pages
- Holidays Interactive Activities
- Holidays Bulletin Board Displays
- Holidays Color by Code
- Holidays Word Walls
- Holidays Cut and Paste Worksheets
- Holidays Word Searches
- Holidays Printable Card Templates
- Holidays Escape Room Games
- Holidays Bookmarks
- Holidays Dice Games
- Holidays Logic Puzzles
- Holidays Classroom Door Decorations
- Holidays Sorting Activities
- Holidays Bingo
- Holidays Projects
- Holidays Crossword Puzzles
- Holidays Posters
- Holidays Mazes
- Holidays Active Games
- Holidays Flipbooks
- Holidays Flashcards
- Holidays Card Games
- Holidays Board Games
- Holidays Matchup Games
- Holidays Certificates and Awards
- Holidays Custom Studio Resources
- Holidays Connect the Dots
- Holidays Banner Display Letter Sets
- Holidays Pennant Flags
- Holidays Brochure Templates
- Holidays Graphic Organizers
- Holidays Fortune Teller Templates
- Holidays Book Review Templates
- Holidays Checklists
- Holidays Tracing Worksheets
- Holidays Tarsia Puzzles
- Holidays for Pre-K
- Holidays for Kindergarten
- Holidays for 1st Grade
- Holidays for 2nd Grade
- Holidays for 3rd Grade
- Holidays for 4th Grade
- Holidays for 5th Grade
- Holidays for 6th Grade
- Holidays for 7th Grade