Christmas Themed Math Activities

If we can do Christmas themed language arts activities, we can do Christmas math, too.

Kindergarten Worksheets and Games has a bunch of printable math worksheets for younger kids, including skip counting, greater than/less than, I-spy with counting and more, all with a winter/holiday theme.

Mashup Math has some Christmas-themed math riddles for kids to try. Think logic puzzles where kids have to figure out how many there are of something or how much something costs based on the clues in the word problem.

Little Bins for Little Hands has a great collection of free printable Christmas related math activities. You’ll find Grinch themed graphic, a Santa dice rolling game, playdough mats with counting activities, secret word math puzzles and more.

Older kids can use these ideas from Make Sense of Math for some holiday-themed math learning. Solve problems with a snowball fight, plan a holiday meal or use problem solving on holiday themed puzzles. Some of these ideas involved paid products you can find here.

Speaking of paid resources, this holidays around the world math pack from Amanda Stitt at Teachers Pay Teachers looks like a lot of fun for middle schoolers. It includes information about different winter holidays (such as Christmas, Kwanzaa, Diwali and Los Posadas) and how they are celebrated around the world, with math skills integrated into the lessons. For example kids can determine the average temperature around Christmas in Australia, which country has the most people who celebrate Kwanzaa, or solve a word problem to discover how much money the children were gifted for Lunar New Year.

Teaching with Kaylee B has more paid printable math activities good for elementary school kids. I love the “Don’t Eat Pete” game, which is a way to practice math facts (and eat a little candy) you can do throughout the year, but this one has holiday themed clip art to make it a fun Christmas math game.

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Christmas Language Arts Activities

I’m in deep denial about the fact that new year is almost upon us again! It’s been the fastest and the longest year at the same time, and I can look back and see some good things as well as some things I wish had gone differently.

Doing a year in review with your kids — whether in the classroom or at home — is a good way to capture some of their memories and the things they really liked about the year gone by.

There are a lot of different printable year in review worksheets you can use if you want to make this super easy. Here are links to a few (often part of larger posts about NYE celebrations with kids that are worth a read, too):

Teach Beside Me has lots of fun printables fro the end of the year, including a year in review that covers favorite memory, funniest memory and the best book they read, among other topics.
NurtureStore‘s version has space for a self-portrait and prompts like favorite toy, best day out this year and future dream job.
Remember favorites, their “best idea” of the year and have room for setting goals for next year with this one from The Keele Deal.
The year in review from Yes We Made This has room for drawing or writing and includes things like something they learned, a memory they made and a place they visited.

Of course you could pretty easily make your own year in review for the whole family to do that asks questions based on what you most want to remember. (Favorite video game? Best friend? Favorite family memory?)

And if after the year in review you’re ready to look ahead a bit, Mrs. Merry has new year’s resolution printables to inspired kids to look ahead and set goals for things they want to try. You can totally fill this one out as a grownup, too.

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