Halloween is over and November is here, which means Christmas is just around the corner! 🌟
Here at TT, Christmas is one of our favourite times of the year 😍 There’s nothing we love more than putting up the Christmas tree, decorating the office, and spending quality time with the people we love. If you can relate, this is the post for you! 🎄
With more than 200 Christmas activities on the Top Teacher webby, it can be tricky and time-consuming to try and find the right one for you. Never fear! In this blog, we’ve collated our absolute favourite Christmas resources for you, complete with our best tips and tricks for using them to their fullest potential.
Christmas is the perfect time to crack out the PVA glue and get stuck into some arts and crafts ❤️ Not only is it ideal for the end of the year when your students are ready to relax, but it can also double as an ideal take-home gift! Check out some of our favourite Christmas crafts below.
💛 I am a Christmas Star: Christmas Craft 💛
In this adorable activity based on Michelle Conn’s book The Christmas Star, your students will craft miniature Christmas trees with a photo of their face inserted into the centre. With a banner included, this craft makes for a gorgeous bulletin board display in any Early Years—Year 2 classroom! Follow up this fun craft activity with our matching set of worksheets. |
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💛 Reindeer Photo Frame 💛
This classic TT resource is adorable, simple and would make the perfect take-home gift for students in the early years 🎁 Use handprints, paint, googly eyes and pom-poms to craft a reindeer frame. Students can colour in the optional banner to add across the top and finish off their work with either a photograph of themselves or a painted self-portrait! |
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💛 Christmas Tree Surprise Craft Activity 💛
Upper years students will love this making this paper craft, where they will create a 3D Christmas tree that pops open to reveal a surprise of their choice!
We love the idea of using this craft as an end-of-year gift for a younger buddy class ⛄️ |
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It’s the end of the year, you have a million reports left to write, and you simply don’t have the energy to put together anything fancy 😴 Don’t worry, we totally get it! These resources were designed to be prep free – no thinking necessary, just print and go. You’ll love them, your relief teacher will love them, and most importantly, your class will love them! ❤️
💛 Christmas Activity Booklets 💛
It doesn’t get any easier than this! These downloads are packed with fun, curriculum-aligned worksheets covering both English and Maths concepts. Print individual worksheets as needed, or prepare the entire booklet in one go for students to work through independently. We’ve got booklets available for Foundation & Year 1, Years 2/3, Years 3/4 and Years 5/6, so there’s something for everyone 🙌🏼 |
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💛 The Polar Express PACKAGE 💛
This pack features comprehension activities, writing prompts, holiday card templates, and a super flexible craft. Print the activities, and your students will do the rest!
Pair these tasks with a reading of The Polar Express (or even a viewing of the movie!) for a festive end to your year. |
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💛 Christmas I Spy Find & Colour 💛
Little learners love a colouring activity, and this easy-print worksheet is no exception! Students must locate each image and assign it to a colour.
If your students need a bit more of a challenge, we also have a Count, Colour & Write version of this task available, where students need to count the number of times each image appears and then write the number in full. |
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These games are designed to test your students with tricky mathematical concepts, problem-solving puzzles and more! Your class will love how colourful, engaging and fun these curriculum-aligned activities are ⭐️
💛 Christmas Maths Mystery: Who Stole Santa’s Sack? 💛
This task card activity uses maths clues to help students solve the mystery. Will they be able to solve the puzzles and find out who is guilty of stealing Santa’s sack? This activity comes in two versions: one suitable for Foundation & Year 1 students, and a more challenging option ideal for Years 2 & 3. |
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💛 Festive Fractions 💛
You’ll be blown away by how easy it is to differentiate this fraction game for your students! Using a spinner or a six-sided die, students collect fraction pieces to assemble whole baubles on their Christmas tree. The instructions feature a wide range of suggestions for making the game simpler or more challenging, making it perfect for any classroom. |
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💛 Present Position Bingo 💛
Early learners will love this picture-based Bingo game that allows them to practise positional language. You can play this game by showing the students the images, allowing them to match the pictures exactly, or you can mix it up by reading the word without showing the picture. Many of the images can represent more than one word, so students will have to use strategy to choose the image that fits best! |
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Do you love to get into the Christmas spirit with your decor? Then you’re in the right place! These resources will brighten up your classroom with eye-catching banners, whole class collaborations, crafts and more. Let’s crack out the tinsel and get started! 🎄
💛 Christmas Countdown Celebration 💛
Do you love advent calendars? This is the resource for you! Students will craft a display Christmas tree with ten three-dimensional cubes numbered from 10-1. In the lead-up to the Christmas holidays, open one box each day to reveal a secret surprise for your class 🥳 We’ve included editable task cards you can insert into the boxes, allowing you to craft your own surprises to suit your class. |
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💛 Collaborative Christmas Tree 💛
Use tessellating triangles to build a collaborative whole class Christmas tree.
Ideal for a bulletin board or door display, this resource includes a huge range of ideas for how to decorate your triangles, plus a range of optional additional decorations you can add to put the finishing touch on your tree 🎄 |
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💛 Santa’s Workshop PLAY PACK 💛
Turn your early years classroom into a winter wonderland with this beautiful and engaging play pack!
Featuring posters, labels, bunting, activities, and so much more, your students will love roleplaying as elves in the North Pole preparing for Christmas 🎅🏻 |
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💛 Festive Light Name Display: We Light Up This Room 💛
This resource is one of our most popular Christmas downloads every year, and we can definitely see why!
Create student names by adding each letter to a festive Christmas light. We love displaying this craft by gluing it to black cardstock and smudging chalk to mimic the glow of Christmas lights 🎄 |
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Christmas is the perfect time of year to get comfy with a good book, so we’ve prepared a huge range of resources designed to perfectly pair with your favourite Christmas storybook 📚
From low-prep standalone activities to comprehensive book packages, there’s something for everyone!
💛 Santa Post PACKAGE 💛
This pack is designed to be paired with a reading of Santa Post by Emma Yarlett. Designed for Early Years to Year 2, your students will be kept busy with over 250 pages of engaging activities, including crafts, worksheets, displays, play-based learning and more! Want to keep it simpler? No worries! Each of the Santa Post package activities are available as individual downloads ❤️ |
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💛 Pete the Cat Saves Christmas PACKAGE 💛
We absolutely LOVE Pete the Cat Saves Christmas by Eric Litwin here at TT, and we think you’ll love it too! With all of the engaging resources and flexibility you’ve come to expect from our book packages, this resource is sure to become a new Christmas tradition in your classroom 🎁 |
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💛 What Do You Wish For? Writing Prompts PACKAGE 💛
This gorgeous accompaniment to the book What Do You Wish For? by Jane Godwin and Anna Walker includes templated writing prompts where students decide what they would wish for. Alternatively, use the gift tags to write student wishes, then create the layered star crafts and combine them for an adorable end-of-year display! You could use these as a take-home gift, hang them from the class Christmas tree, display them on your classroom door or attach them to a larger present. |
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We hope you and your students have the most magical Christmas ever ❤️
Don’t forget to tag your classroom photos @topteacher to show us what you’ve been up to!