Christmas Activities For Kids

• Fine motor and scissor skills  
  
• Christmas worksheets   
  
• Winter gross motor ideas  
  
• Christmas paper crafts   
  
• Edible Christmas activities   
  
• More Christmas pages
  

Fine Motor and Scissor Skills

Kids are often motivated to do crafts that end in a nice decoration or gift, so combine that motivation with some focused activities and build their skills.

Therapists have come up with so many good Christmas activities for kids, I had to create a whole new page to contain them all!

So head over to my Fine Motor Christmas Activities page to be inspired and equipped! You will find lots of ideas for working on cutting skills, hand strength and finger skills!

Or try out my Christmas Angel Craft that uses pipe cleaners and pony beads!

My Christmas Scissor Skills E-book contains a range of scissor cutting activities from easy to more challenging - check it out!

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Christmas Worksheets

You can also check out these pages of my site for further educational Christmas activities for kids:

• Christmas Activity and Advent Resources
• Christmas Lapbooks

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Winter Gross Motor Ideas

For those in the cold northern hemisphere at Christmas time, you often need to find ways to burn off your kids' energy indoors!

Have your kids move like animals up and down the hallway or around the table. Leopard Crawls and Crab Walks are particularly good for the core and shoulder muscles!

Marching is also a great way to warm up on a cold day as well as working on bilateral coordination skills - have your kids march around the house or on the spot between classroom activities.

My personal favorite when we have been cooped up indoors for whatever reason are the Brain Break printables by Pink Oatmeal pictured above (these are my affiliate linkies). They only cost a couple dollars but when your brain is fried (LOL) and you can't think what to do, having your kids grab one of the cards and do the exercises can be a life-saver! (The animal one is great for preschool kids!)

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Christmas Paper Craft Ideas

Edible Christmas Activities for Kids

Baking and "playing" with food can be so much fun, and kids can benefit so much from time in the kitchen with you! Get them involved in a few edible Christmas activities like making cookies and fruit kebabs/kebobs...

Christmas Cookies

You can especially look out for recipes that involve:

• rolling out and squishing dough - good for bilateral coordination
• cutting out shapes with cutters - good for spatial awareness and planning skills
• spiced cookies - good sensory experience
• lots of ingredients to measure out - good for math skills, memory skills and following instructions

Fruit Kebabs / Kebobs

Have you tried making fruit kebabs with your kids? (Maybe you call them kebobs, depending on where you are in the world LOL!) With adult supervision, cutting fruit into chunks (with a safe knife) and then skewering them onto a kebab stick is good for eye hand coordination. Supervise your child at all times and make sure the kebab sticks are not sharp enough to hurt them.

Bananas, strawberries, melons and grapes are easy fruits to get onto a skewer, although bananas need to be eaten almost immediately. A great festive party food to serve with yogurt for dipping.

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Thank you for visiting my site! I hope you were as inspired by these Christmas activities for kids as I am!

Truth in the Tinsel - an advent e-book

If you are looking for a daily advent lesson and simple Christmas craft activity you can do with your preschooler, then I really recommend Truth in the Tinsel. My kids have thoroughly enjoyed this advent e-book!

This is an affiliate link to an advent product I have used and love. If you purchase through this link, I may receive a small commission.
You are, however, under no obligation to purchase anything!

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