Introduce a few Christmas school activities into your program and the children in your class will think you are wonderful. What they won't realize is that they are actually still doing school work with educational content. There are many different educational Christmas activities that can be used in the classroom.

Christmas Writing Activities

There are many different Christmas school activities that involve writing. Some of these will get kids tapping into their creative side and even get them using higher order thinking skills.

Acrostic Poem

One simple Christmas writing activity is to have the children create an acrostic poem. These poems are usually created by writing a word vertically down the page and then children create a poem using each of the letters to start a line of the poem. Children could create poems using the following words, Christmas, Reindeer, Santa, Ornaments or Christmas Tree.

What I Don't Like About Christmas

Another writing activity is to get children to think differently about Christmas. Ask the children to list five things that they don't like about Christmas. This is quite an interesting activity that really makes the kids think of Christmas from a different perspective.

A Perfect Christmas Day

Children could also write a diary of an ideal Christmas day. Ask them to describe where they would be, who they would be with and what they would be doing.

Christmas Math Activities are also ideal for practicing math skills in a fun and festive way.

Christmas Tree Jumble

A simple Christmas math activity is to draw several Christmas trees on the board and then put the numbers from an addition, subtraction, multiplication or division operation jumbled up in each tree. The pattern for the operation is then written under the tree.

If the numbers 2, 4, 6 and 7 are in the tree, the pattern? X? =??, would be added under the tree. Children then have to unjumble the numbers in the tree to create a true equation to fit the pattern. In this example it could be 6 X 7 = 42.

Decorate the Tree

For this game two players or two teams can complete to be the first to decorate a Christmas tree with ten decorations. A Christmas tree is drawn for each player or team. The two players or teams compete to be the first to answer an equation. You could use basic addition, subtraction, multiplication or division facts for the game or more complex calculations involving decimal numbers or percentages. The first player to answer correctly gets to draw a decoration on the tree. The first player or team with ten decorations on their tree is the winner.

There are many other Christmas school activities that can be used to entertain and educate kids in the lead up to Christmas. Children can make crafts, solve Christmas puzzles and play Christmas word games also. These are all valuable Christmas school activities that the kids will enjoy without them even realizing that they are still learning.

Teresa Evans is a parent and teacher who has created a range of printable Christmas activities and games that are ideal for Christmas school activities. For your set of free Christmas printables click here www.kids-christmas-activities.com.