Christmas Activities for Kids: Printable Puzzles, Letters to Santa and Coloring

December is the busiest month for printables. Teachers need calm activities for the last school days, parents need something for the long afternoons of the winter break, and kids want everything to be about Christmas. Our Christmas collection covers all three: seasonal crafts to color, real learning pages, and party games.

Free Christmas printables

• Letter to Santa: a two-page letter kids fill in and decorate
• Christmas Countdown Coloring Calendar: color one box every day until Christmas
• Christmas Gift Tags to Color: kids make the tags for the family presents
• Christmas Coloring Cards: fold, color and give
• Christmas Math Worksheets (Grades 1-2), Christmas Crossword Puzzles and Christmas Coloring Pages
• Christmas Starter Pack: nine mixed pages for ages 4-8
• Christmas dice games: Roll a Christmas Tree, Roll a Santa and Roll a Gingerbread Man: roll, draw and color, with a paper die
• Christmas Lights Scavenger Hunt: a picture checklist for the lights drive, a color hunt and a house rating page
• Christmas Tracing Worksheets: tracing lines and 12 Christmas words for preschool

A simple December plan

1. December 1: start the countdown calendar on the fridge.
2. First week: write the letter to Santa while the wish list is still short.
3. Second week: one math page a day, Easy first, Challenging by Friday.
4. Last school day: clue bingo for the class party, coloring cards for the teacher.
5. Wrapping day: kids color the gift tags for every present.

The rest of the Christmas collection

Every format also comes as a large-print Early Learners set for ages 4 to 6: bigger type, fewer items and picture clues. These sets, plus word search, clue bingo, mazes and I Spy, are part of the Christmas Mega Pack (97 pages in one PDF), which is coming soon.

• Word search, Grades 2-4 and picture word search for little ones
• Clue bingo, Grades 2-4 and picture bingo, large print
• Mazes, Grades 2-4 and chunky mazes, large print
• I Spy count-and-find, Grades 2-4 and I Spy, large print

Words kids meet in the Christmas sets

santa, tree, gift, star, snowman, reindeer, sleigh, elf, stocking, bell, cookie, candle, wreath and ornament. The same theme words return across the crosswords, word search, bingo and coloring pages, so by the end of the week kids read and spell them with confidence.

Which level to choose

• Grades 2-4 (ages 7-10): written clues, bigger grids and three levels in every set.
• Early Learners, large print (ages 4-6): picture clues, chunky mazes, big type and fewer items on a page.

Christmas in other countries

Studying how the world celebrates? See Christmas Around the World for kids.

Questions parents and teachers ask

Which Christmas pages are free?

The letter to Santa, the countdown calendar, the gift tags, the coloring cards, the Starter Pack, the three Christmas dice games, the lights scavenger hunt, the Christmas tracing worksheets, and the Grades 1-2 math and the Grades 2-4 crossword and coloring sets.

Are the pages religious?

They focus on the festive side of Christmas: the tree, presents, Santa, reindeer, stockings and gingerbread.

Can I use them in my classroom?

Yes, for your own classroom and home. Print at 100% on US Letter paper; A4 works with “Fit to page”.

New: 36 Christmas riddles for kids with answers, as printable riddle cards.

For teachers: Christmas math activities from kindergarten to 4th grade, with worksheets, games and hands-on ideas.