Christmas Resources

Here are some of my new (and old) Christmas resources, most of which are free!

Click on each image to download the resource. 

An Nollaig Display Set

A set of display posters for the theme of Christmas.

  Christmas Narrative Writing Roll a Story

All you need to plan and write a festive narrative story.

An Nollaig Activity Sheets

Letter to Santa (in both English & Irish)

This creates a lovely display whether you do it in English or Irish.

  

Advent Calendar

This is a great way to choose little activities to do in the lead up to Christmas.

An Nollaig Wordsearch 

Christmas Recount Writing

This is one to save for after Christmas!

Christmas Art Activities

 Here are a few Art ideas that I have used with my class over the past few years.

Foam Snowmen

They were great fun to make and the children loved decorating them. Read the step by step instructions here.

Sock Snowmen

These were probably my favourite Christmas activity to do. I have done these with a lot of classes over the years, and it is a nice one that they can keep year after year. 

  

You need:

• white sock 
• colourful sock (for hat & scarf)
• buttons/pom poms for buttons
• elastic band
• Rice
• googly eyes
• Hot glue gun is very useful for this but you could also use PVA.

This video is worth watching as it shows step by step instructions.

3D Cribs

This is a great project for the week leading up to the Christmas holidays. Each student brought in a shoebox and we used templates from Monster Chest's TPT Store. You can paint the background or use coloured paper/tissue paper. 

Rudolph Baubles

This is a drawing and painting lesson with some construction of baubles too!

Firstly, we drew an outline of Rudolph from a template I drew on the board. Then we painted them, mixing different shades of brown. While they dried, we cut out 4 circles from different coloured paper. We folded each circle in half and glued one half of a circle to another, continuing until you had used 4 circles. This creates one bauble so repeat until you have 3 or 4 to hang from the antlers. You can also add a little glitter to Rudolph's nose. To finish, we backed them on red paper.

Clay Christmas Tree Decoration

Cookie cutters are really useful for this Art activity. Each student chose a shape they would like to make. They rolled out their clay and used the cookie cutters to create the shape. Some made little decorations for their Christmas Tree to give it more of a 3D effect. Using a straw, we put a hole in each decoration, so we could add a ribbon to hang it from the tree. Finally, we painted them!

Christmas Tree Scene (as seen on @artwithmslahart)

This is a lovely colourful art lesson. We drew lines lightly to outline the ground. We painted the sky and added some snowflakes.  While it dried, we used tissue paper to design our trees. We cut them out in triangular shapes and stuck them down.

Hopefully you might find an idea or two for this year. Feel free to add in your own favourites in the comments.