Christmas Language Arts Activities

There are so many fun ways to add a holiday spin to language arts learning, particularly sight words. These Christmas language arts activities make classroom time a little more fun as we head into the break, or give you something fur to do for learning at home.

123 Homeschool 4 Me adds a little holiday magic to learning spelling words with a printable of holiday lights. Write a sight word or spelling word in the bulb, then have kids paint over with watercolors to reveal the word. There are also festive printables for your spelling test if you want them.

These Christmas tree spelling worksheets from Teach Beside Me are so cute and a fun way to work with three to six letter words. You start with a single letter at the top of the tree then add a letter to the word on each level (different trees have different numbers of letters).

Miss Decarbo on Teachers Pay Teachers has a free printable word work project for first and second graders. They unscramble a holiday themed word (like reindeer or workshop) then come up with words that are made up of the letters in that word.

Another freebie on Teachers Pay Teachers is from My Fabulous Class, which has a sight word package that includes word list printables, sight word candy canes, and another take on the watercolor ornament sight word activity.

Play a little sight word bingo with these printable cards from ABCs of Literacy. I love the idea of using little holiday themed pompoms as your counters.

As a knitter I love anything with a Christmas sweater theme, and this reading activity has kids use observation and problem solving skills to determine which sweater is the secret sweater. This activity is from The Measured Mom and has a sweater printable as well as the clues kids can use to solve the puzzle.

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Shark Week generally happens in July, but any time is a good time to learn more about sharks.

First, start with some fun whale facts like these from Kids Craft Room. Here I learned about the dwarf lantern shark, which is the smallest shark and only grows to about 6-8 inches (about 15-20 cm) long. It also emits light. How cool is that?

Natural Beach Living has some great printable shark information guides, where kids can learn about different kinds of sharks, match the facts to the pictures, or print out doubles and do a shark memory game.

Living Life an Learning has some great shark activity pages including the parts of a shark, types of sharks, a crossword puzzle and more. Also check out their parts of a shark and word scramble download, and a life cycle worksheet.

Learn about how sharks float with this great activity from JDaniel4’s Mom.

Need more facts about sharks? This fact pact from The WOLFe PACK on Teacher Pay Teachers includes fact sheets, a printable flip book, informational text, vocabulary, comprehension questions and more.

Living Montessori Now has a great collection of shark themed activities with a Montessori inspired twist. You’ll find a shark roll and cover, shark phonics and lots more shark activities Deb has collected from all over the Internet.

Remember the “Sharknado” movie? A Few Shortcuts turned the combination of sharks and tornadoes into a fun science activity. You’ll need a bottle connector for this project but otherwise should have everything you need on hand. Use their template to make your sharks out of aluminum foil. So fun!

You can also do some shark themed coloring with these coloring pages from Encouraging Moms at Home. Or make a cool 3D shark with this template from korkotak. And there are tons of different shark crafts collected in this post from Kids Activities Blog.

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