Christmas resources
We've collected together some of the best seasonal resources uploaded to the TES Connect website
Foundation
|Key stage 1|Key stage 2|Key stage 3 and 4
Foundation
A script for Nativity performances for the teacher to narrate as children act out the scenes. An easily adaptable resource!
An interactive resource from i-board for creating stars in different colours and sizes!
Some lovely background drops, ideal for Nativity.
Phase 2 and 3 tricky words on Christmas Stockings
Tricky words from Letters and Sounds Phase 2 and 3 on Christmas Stockings.
A fun interactive activity from i-board where pupils can help dress Santa and his helper in time for Christmas!
Animated reindeer come flying into pages to the tune of 1 little, 2 little, 3 little indians. Aids counting to 10 for early years and special needs.
A fun activity pack including games such as dominoes and odd one out, as well as illustrated Christmas story boards.
Christmas playdough prompt cards
A printable resource which can be laminated for use in class at the playdough table.
Each school day has a number. Add your keyword or objective on the relevant powerpoint slide. When you then click on that day’s number you will magically be transported to that day’s word or objective
A simple powerpoint about the Christmas Spider. Originally written for EAL pupils.
A great online interactive resource. You have to click and drag the various Christmas Tree ornaments onto the tree. Great for Foundation and Year 1 students (and adults!)
Interactive activity to help fix Santa's sleigh before he sets off to deliver his presents!
Use the smartboard resource to count presented sets of up to ten baubles. Children select the correct number and are rewarded by a Christmas animation and sound effect. The word document can be made in to an interactive display, the other word document I use as a cut and stick activity.
Key stage 1
A week's worth of maths activities for years 1/2, with the resources needed. May save some time!
An interactive maths resource to practice addition and subtraction by buying Christmas decorations!
A simple powerpoint telling the story of 'The Night before Christmas'. Originally written for EAL pupils.
Puzzles to keep them quiet this week! Including wordsearches, cryptograms, scrambler, cross words
The ORT characters celebrate Christmas. Father Christmas is coming! What gifts will he bring?
Ask pupils to suggest different ways to make up the total budget for Christmas presents.
PowerPoint presentation of traditional Christmas song
The Christmas story - colouring & writing booklets
Very simple booklets about the birth of Jesus. We use the first two to practise handwriting (each letter being formed correctly on the board first).
Ask pupils to finish decorating the Xmas tree by mirroring the baubles on the opposite side.
A table top resource, using four copies of the tree and one sheet of decorations.
A robin bingo game - 4 game boards to print and laminate, focusing on numbers 1-10. A simple Christmas time group activity.
Non-fiction writing on reindeers
A Powerpoint resource for pupils to learn interesting facts about reindeers and write about them!
Christmas placemat and symbols
A Christmas placemat which can be printed out and laminated for use in class at the Christmas party!
A range of worksheets focusing on the Nativity and how Christmas is celebrated by Christians.
Workbook activities on Baboushka, giving and receiving presents and making excuses and being too busy: as well as two versions of a sequencing sheet on story of Baboushka. Designed for Scottish P4 class.
Key stage 2
Christmas Mini stickers for French
A French vocabulary resource for printing on to stickers, which is easily adaptable for other languages!
Interactive Christmas-themed puzzle, perfect for introducing pupils to rotation.
Poetry paper chains
Angel and Father Christmas co-ordinates pictures
Like a beetle drive but use a snowman for that Christmas theme
A PowerPoint with problems to solve using a recipe for a Christmas Pudding. Suitable for upper KS2 in the run up to Christmas.
A Powerpoint collection of Italian Christmas songs, put to well-known tunes for the whole class to sing along to!
This is a simple version of the nativity story which I use with nativity flashcards. There is also a song Petit Jesus that sings to the tune of Frere Jacques which brings in all the nativity characters.
A poem examining our approach towards Christmas and sparing a thought for those less fortunate.
Monthly & yearly calendars for pupils to decorate with pictures, stickers and their own drawings!
Tips for making bean bags from fleece or felt which can also be used as Christmas decorations!
PowerPoint presenting simple rhyme about Pere Noel with flashcards to reinforce the new vocabulary.
Key stage 3 and 4
A general Christmas quiz, a perfect end of term activity!
An assembly to get students to think about Christmas and others in the world
Santa has been killed! But who did it? What will happen to Christmas?! Skilled game to use in English class as a fun lesson. Complete with differentiated characters, clues and a worksheet.
Each pupil has a 5x5 grid onto which they will paste their clues. A new clue is given out every day.
Advent Calendar Lesson Starters
Advent calendar style lesson starters. Pupils choose a number at random and class complete task.
A simple script for Cinderella (Aschenputtel) and some templates for making Christmas box decorations - add instructions in whichever foreign language you need!
Dear Santa Letter - Cher Pere Noel
Dear Santa letterhead nice sheet for pupils to write their letters onto.
Online resources for use in lessons about Christmas in Italy
Christmas words in German
Some group work to fill those last few lessons before the Christmas holiday with something vaguely Business Studies related!
An online quiz about Christmas in France and French Christmas vocabulary.
