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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Several countries have a day set aside to honor and recognize their inventors, but Nov. 9 is a special one that’s known as Tag der Erfinder in German. It’s celebrated in Germany, Austria and Switzerland and it falls on Nov. 9 because that’s the birthday of Hedy Lamarr.

Hedy Lamarr is widely known as an actress but there’s a lot more to her story. You can get a little of it geared to little kids in the Little People, Big Dreams book Hedy Lamarr (32 pages, hardcover, published 2023 by Frances Lincoln Childrens Books, suggested retail price $15.99).

The book explores her birth in Austria and how she spent time when she was young coming up with inventions. She became an actress, married an arms dealer, made her escape to America and became an actress again.

But she also helped develop a frequency-hopping signal device for airplanes that was used by the Americans and their allies during World War II. That technology became the basis for wireless technology such as wifi and GPS.

While Inventor’s Day is a great time to learn about Hedy Lamarr, you can take this opportunity to check out books and do little studies on lots of different inventors. If there’s an inventor or an invention your child is particularly interested in, that’s a great place to start. It’s fun to think about all the things we use every day that didn’t always exist; someone had to invent them!

For a start here at Craft Gossip you can learn more about Garrett Morgan, who invented traffic lights; Maria Oroso, who developed a clay oven that could cook food without electricity; and more female inventors and scientists.

And for more general inventors’ fun, check out this inventors word search from Fun Findery (and another from Let’s Do Puzzles) or take a quiz on inventors and their inventions from Flanders Family Home Life.

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