We’ve made it to Christmas break! Christmas is one of my favourite times in the classroom with my students. And today, I’m sharing some of the fun activities that we done that are perfect Christmas activities for kids.
Letters to Santa
My students aren’t quite ready for writing lists to Santa. So, we mixed it up a little this year. I printed out Santa with a frame on him. Then, we worked with our students to look through Google, and catalogues to see what they wanted for Christmas. We cut out the items and put them onto the list for Santa. My kids had so much fun and it was interesting to see what they wanted to have on their Christmas lists.
Christmas Tree
This craft turned out so adorable! It was great watching my kids working on their fine motor skills and choosing different buttons to use to decorate the tree.
Sock Olaf
Olaf is a huge hit with my kids – they all love the movie! So, we made these Olaf socks – and my kids had so much fun! We stuffed them with cotton wool inside and then used string to tie them to make a snowman. My kids loved decorating them to turn them into Olaf too.
Reindeer Paper Plate
We love making crafts with paper plates too. They’re really affordable to buy in bulk and you can do so many things with them! This year we decided to turn them into reindeer – although almost everyone decided to make Rudolph! It was a lot of fun and they looked great up on display around the classroom.
Snowman Paper Plate
We even used paper plates to make snowmen. If you follow me, you’ll know that we have a colour co-ordinated classroom. So each of my students coloured the snowman’s hat in their colour.
Cupcake Calendar
Every year, I love to make a calendar. We have those little calendar flip books that we buy from Amazon or a local craft store. Then we stick them onto the bottom of a picture or craft we create. This year we made this adorable cupcake.
Santa Paper Plate
We used our paper plates to make a glittery Santa too! So many of our kids parents commented about how they put this on their tree or by their fireplace and how festive it looked up on display. And my kids loved throwing snow and glitter over the craft.
Cookery
In our cookery sessions, we made these adorable reindeers and puddings. The puddings are chocolate marshmallow teacakes with decorations on top. The reindeer is a marshmallow on a stick, dipped in melted chocolate and decorated. My kids love to bake – and these were so much fun to make together.
We had spare time one afternoon, and we decided to make these Christmas pudding biscuits. For this, we used digestive biscuits, and then melted chocolate to spread on them. We made some icing and decorated it with biscuits and sweets. They turned out so great!
As a bit of a Christmas tradition, each year we love to make chocolate logs with our kids too. And we made these star biscuits as part of our baking slot one week.
Nativity Craft
We also do a lot of Nativity work around this time of year. And this craft was a great way for us to use after we talked about the Nativity story.
Christmas Card
Every year, I like to make a Christmas card with my students and then send it home with my students to give to their families. We dipped our fingers into paint to make these baubles. My kids love painting with their fingers, and it makes the crafts more personal too!
Christmas Dinner Hats
Every year, we have Christmas dinner together as a school. And we love to make hats for us to wear. This year, we decided to go with a snowman theme. And these hats turned out perfect!
Christmas Dinner
This is how our table looked for Christmas dinner. You can see our snowman hats and placemats for each student by their chairs. And then we decorated a snowman to go in the middle of the table.
What are some activities that you like to do with your students during Christmas? Don’t forget to share this post with your colleagues who may find these activities helpful.
