Christmas Activities For Kids

These free Christmas Activities for kids will give your child lots of practice in developing skills they need for school. Older children can also benefit from the fine motor and coordination demands of these fun activities!

For each activity, I have highlighted the skill that the activity develops. So have fun with your children as you encourage them to develop their school skills! Just click on the headings to go to the page you want to see!

Preschool Christmas Activities: Paper Lanterns and Paper Chains
Encourages these skills: Cutting on a straight line
Comment: A great preschool Christmas activity! Free printable cutting lines are given, which can be copied onto colour paper; or onto plain white paper for the child to paint/colour before cutting.


Baking with Kids
Encourages these skills: Mostly bilateral coordination, but visual perception and maths skills are also encouraged
Comment: Different methods of baking biscuits require different skills. Have a look and find a recipe that suits you and your child!

Christmas Angels for Kids
Encourages these skills: bilateral coordination in threading beads, sequencing of bead colours, cutting rectangles, planning skills (older children)
Comment: although I do not usually recommend threading small beads if your child struggles with fine motor tasks, this task uses chenille sticks/pipe cleaners and gives a very rewarding end product! Older children (Grade 1) should be able to make the angel shape, but an adult will need to complete the shape for a younger child.

Christmas Wordsearches
Encourages these skills: visual perceptual skills (figure-ground perception; attention to detail)
Comment: Wordsearches are a great way to help your child pay attention to details. They need to be in Grade 1-3 to complete these wordsearches – there is an easy one and a more challenging one, in PDF format.So, try these Printable Christmas Wordsearches (30KB) with Solutions (31KB)

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