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Create Christmas crafts, write festive letters, research traditions or build a coding project. Holiday budgeting activities add a practical math option.
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Students print, color, cut out, and glue/assemble various Christmas craft projects (e.g., decorate a Christmas tree, make a Santa paper bag puppet, design a Christmas stocking, candy cane, wrapping paper, gingerbread man, or ornaments); students may optionally complete a writing extension describing their project, a…
Follow step-by-step instructions (with accompanying video tutorials) to build Scratch programs: e.g. making Christmas tree lights flash, making Santa dance with a repeat loop and music, and 3 further Christmas-themed coding activities of increasing difficulty, completing extension challenges after each.
Assemble a flipbook by cutting along dashed guidelines and stapling pages together; discuss and choose a favorite country as a group of 4; each of the 4 group members researches one topic (gift-bringer, foods, customs, or language) for that country using a provided website (santas.net/aroundtheworld.htm) and answers…
Calculate possible piggy-bank totals, set a shopping budget, then add/subtract decimal gift prices for four people without exceeding the budget.
A holiday craft template for building a 3D gingerbread house model by coloring, cutting, and pasting/folding paper pieces.
Christmas-themed letter-writing activity where students fill in a 'Dear Santa' letter template describing their good deeds and Christmas wish list.
Open provided Scratch project templates online, add code blocks to make sprites (tree lights, fireplace flames, star, Santa) animate, run/test the program, and attempt extension challenges.
Use picture and word clues to research and answer questions on topics such as Christmas markets, Nikolaustag and Krampus, Christmas Eve/Day/Boxing Day observances, Epiphany/Sternsinger customs, traditional foods (Lebkuchen, Stollen, Spekulatius, Christmas goose), and the history and spread of the German Christmas tree…
Templates for making Christmas pop-up greeting cards with 'Merry Christmas' messages.
Printable paper-craft templates for making 3D Christmas paper balls/ornaments in holiday character designs.
Read 16 fact cards placed around the classroom to answer scavenger-hunt questions on a recording sheet, then document findings on writing templates and in an assembled flipbook/interactive notebook.
Holiday-themed craft in which students spell/build their name (or an elf's name) using letter templates while practicing letter recognition, spelling, and fine motor skills.
Explain where their shopping money will come from, set a total budget, list people to shop for with a target budget for each, record what they'll buy and the actual price for each person, and reflect in writing on how the budgeting process went.
Pop-up Christmas card templates paired with creative-writing prompts.
A multi-activity Christmas-themed ELA packet combining creative writing, reflection, and craft-style worksheets for primary-level/ESL/homeschool learners.
Students complete language activities (phonics, compound words, cloze passages, word searches, crosswords, acrostics, creative writing, comprehension questions about Christmas stories/traditions), make craft projects from templates (Christmas jars, trees, cards, decorations), and read/follow simple Christmas recipes…
A 56-page collection of Christmas craft and language activities spanning crafts, language-themed activities, gifts to make, and decorations.