Christmas Lesson Plans

	Complete Christmas Workbook (in .pdf)		Christmas Worksheets
	Christmas Basic Skills		Christmas Songs
	Christmas Coloring / Writing Sheets		Cyber-Starters, Holidays Workbook
	Christmas Theme Workbook		December Monthly Helpers
	Cloze Paragraphs - Christmas Theme		December Theme Assorted Skills Workbook
	Christmas Teaching Theme		Hanukkah Theme Workbook

1. 12 Days of Christmas- This is a fun and creative way to explore "The 12 Days of Christmas." This lesson reinforces numerical order, repetition within a song, and group effort.
2. A Whole Class Memory Ornament- Compare and contrast different Christmas experiences in the class. Write about your personal favorite Christmas memory.
3. Advent Calendar- "This plan can be used as a religion lesson as well as an art lesson. For private, Parochial and Christian schools."
4. All I Want for Christmas- Students work in pairs to use real life interests to create a wish list from catalogues and sale ads based on a given budget.
5. Bah Humbug- After listening to Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol and Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch stole Christmas, students create a Venn diagram comparing and contrasting the two main characters.
6. Candle Decoration- Students make a candle decoration.

1. Character and Choices: Dickens' A Christmas Carol- In this three week lesson, the teacher provides instruction in the basic elements of literature. By reading Dickens' novel students are provided the opportunity to understand how their choices can change their attitudes and behavior.
2. Christmas Around the World- Every country has its own customs for the celebration of Christmas. This is a look at the customs used in Czechoslovakia and Mexico. Students may have customs from other countries to share.
3. Christmas Compare and Contrast- "The Mouse Before Christmas" vs. "The Night Before Christmas."
4. Christmas Counting 1 - 25- Students count 25 M&Ms in correct order.
5. Christmas Journal Writing Ideas
6. Christmas Playdough Ornaments- "This is a lesson on how matter changes when you combine two different forms."
7. Christmas Shoppers- Children use a parachute and shopping bags to play a Christmas shopping game.
8. Christmas Shopping- Students will pretend to buy age/gender appropriate Christmas presents using a given budget for a specified number of people.
9. Christmas Stories- Read these classic tales with your students. They are inventive, ironic, moralistic, and useful for the study of literary time periods.
10. Counting Down to Christmas Vacation- Students write numerals on a snowman and count off the days until Christmas vacation, using cotton balls to mark the days.
11. Creating Holiday Fun for Children- "Students become aware of the history and cultural traditions associated with different holidays."
12. Feels Like Christmas, Exploring Touch- The sense of touch helps us learn about our world by feeling it and learning the size, texture, and shape of things. In this activity, students will classify four different sandpaper shapes by using only their sense of touch.
13. Getting Green for Christmas- In this lesson, students will examine their family's particular spending habits for a holiday they celebrate, research the financial expectations of retailers during the holiday season and at other times during the year, and write newspaper articles examining how seasonal consumerism affects particular retail industries.
14. Give Me Five at Christmas Time- Students become aware of their senses by taking a walking field trip, creating a word bank, reading a story and singing a song. This is the first lesson in A Sensesational Christmas unit that also includes a diagnostic assessment.
15. Hands and Feet Reindeer Heads- Students make reindeer heads.
16. Holiday Count Down- Create a calendar for your students.
17. Holiday Paper Chains- Students make paper chains. Students learn about different holiday symbols.
18. Holiday Poems- Students will create a holiday poem.
19. Holidays Seasoned with Meaning- In this lesson, students consider how the world events of the past year have impacted their perceptions of this holiday season.
20. How The Grinch Stole Christmas!!- "Climax is a hard concept to teach in this grade level, and last week I had prepared the usual diagrams and illustrations for the lesson, when I realized I wasn't getting through to these kids!"
21. Hands On Christmas Tree or Wreath- Students make a Christmas tree or wreath.
22. Holiday Paper Chains- Students make paper chains. Students learn about different holiday symbols.
23. Looks Like Christmas, Exploring Sight- Students explore their sense of sight, learn about the eyes and how to keep them safe, and become familiar with how to help blind people become a part of their world.
24. Make a Holiday rug with your students- "This is great art project for kids to do. It takes some one on one time, so it is better if you have an intern or lab student in your room."
25. New Year's Around the World- This website was designed for Teachers and Students to learn more about how different groups of people celebrate the New Year.
26. "Night Before Christmas"- "Students will learn about story writing, authors purpose, and the history of some of our Christmas traditions."
27. Potato Print Wrapping Paper- Students use stamps to decorate.
28. Prime Time- This activity is a fun way to practice determining the prime factorization of composite numbers. The students create Christmas factor trees for prime numbers greater than 100.
29. Santa Clause- To learn about the legends and stories about Santa Clause. To learn about the history of the legend and facts in different stories about how St. Nicholas came to be a familiar term in everyone's vocabulary.
30. Smells Like Christmas, Exploring the Nose- In this lesson, students learn that the sense of smell helps us to enjoy life and learn about unsafe conditions. Students will smell Christmas by making gingerbread ornaments.
31. Snowglobes- Students will create a winter snow scene inside a snowglobe.
32. Sounds Like Christmas, Exploring Hearing- In this lesson, students learn that the sense of hearing helps us learn from each other through communication. Also, students learn sound can produce patterns.
33. Stretching Silent Night- A "Silent Night" Spoof.
34. Tastes Like Christmas, Exploring Taste- Taste helps us, among other things, to select and enjoy food. In this lesson, students learn about taste buds and the four familiar tastes.
35. The Christmas Tree, Just Where Did it Come From?- The Christmas tree is popular in most homes in the United States. We decorate our living and family rooms and outside in the yard, with trees.
36. The Gift of Holiday Traditions: Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, and Christmas- December is a month of holidays, celebrations, gift giving, and—to the glee of students and educators alike—school vacations.
37. The Grinch NOW loves Christmas!- "The children should write a story to the Grinch about the best Christmas they have ever had."
38. The Whole World Celebrated Christmas! Right?- This lesson is for use during the weeks before the Christmas break. This will be great for middle school students. It is a comparison of the other religious holidays that are celebrated around this same time of year.
39. Up On The Housetop- A fun song.
40. What do you do for Christmas??- "Ask the students if there is anything particular that they do around the holidays. Do they go somewhere? Do they light candles? Decorate a tree together?"
41. Why the Grinch Stole Christmas- Everyone knows How the Grinch stole Christmas, but no one seems to know why the Grinch stole Christmas. This lesson is a look at what might have given the Grinch the feelings that he had to steal Christmas from Who-ville.
42. Winter Holidays- This lesson provides students with an opportunity to learn about the traditions of various winter holidays.