Christmas Language Arts Activities

December 14, 2023 by Sarah White Leave a Comment

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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Resources for Learning about Squirrels

Did you know that October is Squirrel Awareness Month? I didn’t know we needed more awareness of these little creatures, but let’s take it as a sign to learn more about squirrels!

Let’s start with some fun facts via Kids Konnect: did you know there are five subfamilies and more that 280 species of squirrels? The smallest are pygmy squirrels and the largest, the Bhutan giant flying squirrel, can be longer that 4 feet (1.2 meters).

Tree squirrels can climb down trees so fast because their ankles can rotate 180 degrees, allowing them to grab the tree bark as they go down. While most squirrels don’t survive their first year of life, they can live five to 10 years in the wild and squirrels have been known to live up to 20 years in captivity!

Rhythms of Play has more fun facts and tips for observing squirrels if you want to add some real life nature to your nature study.

We always like to start these collections with life cycle and parts of the animal printables, so let’s grab the squirrel life cycle an parts of a squirrel worksheets from Montessori Nature. (It doesn’t look like these are free any more but they have a whole unit study on squirrels you can buy that includes life cycle and parts activities, characteristics of different kinds of squirrels, a printable poster, information about predators and more.)

Grab the squirrel lapbook printable (free with email address) from Homeschool Share to learn the parts of a squirrel, where they live, what they eat, whether they hibernate and more. There’s also a nut taste test printable, a place for making observations about squirrels, life cycle of an oak tree, games and more.

Simple Everyday Mom has some cute squirrel themed worksheets including tracing the letter s, labeling the parts of a squirrel and a letter s maze. She also has more activity pages with a squirrel theme, including matching, a more traditional maze and a counting and graphing activity.

Work on letter recognition with this squirrel and acorn game printable from Teaching Mama. I love the idea of hiding the letters in a fall themed sensory bin for kids to find, identify and match to the letter on the worksheet.

For older kids you can do this “if I were a squirrel” writing prompt from Lesson Planet.

And throw in a little counting with these squirrel and acorn tens frame printables from JDaniel4’s Mom, which you can use to count real acorns or any other little fall themed thing you have handy.

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