Bring the magic of Christmas into your classroom with our festive and fun-filled Santa's Workshop Christmas PLAY PACK! This dramatic play pack is designed to transform your classroom into a bustling North Pole workshop where imaginations run wild and learning through play takes centre stage.

With over 80 engaging pages, this pack is brimming with interactive opportunities for students to role-play as elves, toy designers, gift wrappers and more. Whether you're setting up a Christmas writing corner, crafting handmade cards or creating toy blueprints, this resource will help you cultivate creativity, communication and cooperative play during the most magical time of year.

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Designed to spark curiosity and extend festive fun, the Santa’s Workshop Play Pack offers a variety of open-ended activities that cater to a wide range of literacy, writing and fine motor skills. It’s perfect for use during free play sessions, literacy rotations, or as a festive end-of-year classroom transformation!

Key Learning Outcomes

• ✅ Engage in imaginative and cooperative role-play
• ✅ Develop early writing and fine motor skills through meaningful tasks
• ✅ Use mathematical and literacy vocabulary in context
• ✅ Foster social and emotional development through turn-taking and teamwork

What’s Included

• Posters and bunting to set the scene
• Labels and word wall cards for print-rich play
• Word desk mats for vocabulary support
• ‘How To’ posters for each workshop station
• Toy design and construction activities
• Ornament decorating tasks
• Gingerbread baking play prompts
• Gift wrapping station templates
• Elf badges for role-play fun
• Christmas writing activities and prompts
• Printable Christmas cards for crafting and gifting

Materials Needed

• Printed play pack resources (in colour or black and white)
• Cardstock, scissors, glue and colouring supplies
• Optional: wrapping paper, toy props, empty boxes, stickers, stamps
• Display space or a designated corner for your Santa’s Workshop setup

How to Use

1. Choose which stations or activities suit your class and print required pages
2. Set up areas using bunting, posters and labels to designate roles and tasks
3. Introduce each station with the matching ‘How To’ poster and vocabulary
4. Allow students to rotate through activities, encouraging imaginative responses
5. Collect student-created work for a festive class display or holiday take-home gift

Ideas for Classroom Use

• 💡 Use as a December classroom transformation for extended dramatic play
• 💡 Integrate into writing rotations with Christmas cards and letters to Santa
• 💡 Create small groups for gift wrapping, ornament crafting and elf jobs

Top Teacher Tips

• 💛 Laminate signs and desk mats for reuse year after year
• 💛 Add props like ribbons, tape dispensers and cardboard boxes for realism
• 💛 Use elf badges to assign rotating roles during free play sessions

This comprehensive play pack is the ultimate way to bring festive cheer and purposeful play to your classroom this holiday season!