Winter Holiday Center Activities

I can't believe it's already time to start planning winter holiday activities! I like to have plenty of fun and engaging activities for the children to do independently, because we all know that it is extra hard to keep children engaged while visions of sugarplums dance in their heads!

The following holiday language activities for little learners can be found here.



They will surely keep students challenged and on task. 
They won't even realize it's school work!

Labeling Rudolf

I included a colored version that you can put in page protectors and students can label Rudolf with a dry erase marker and a black and white version so each student can have a copy. Two different writing templates are also included, so students can write about Rudolf, using some of the words they used to label him.

Beginning, Middle, and Ending Sounds Activity Sheets

Answer keys are included!

Things I Like...

Students will enjoy drawing pictures of and writing about things they like during the holidays. I also included a template with solid lines, instead of the handwriting lines.

Holiday Honey's

Who will the children see or hope to see during the holidays? 
Students write their names and draw a picture of them.

Scrambled Sentences

Students unscramble six sentences and write them on the recording sheet. I included sentences about Christmas and Hanukkah. A black and white version is included, as is an answer key.

Holiday Shopping List

Students use the 24 colored or black and white picture/word cards to make a list of things they'd like to receive for the holidays. Then, they draw a picture of each item.

Write the Room

You can hang the word cards around the room and have students walk around with their recording sheet on a clipboard. Or, you can place the picture/word cards at a station and students choose words to write. There are two different versions of the recording sheet. The one not pictured has a space for students to illustrate each word. The 18 cards come in color and black and white.

There are also two writing activities included, one for Christmas and one for Hanukkah, which are not shown above. Click on the image below to find these activities in my store!

Need some holiday activities for first or second graders?

Here are some great ones...

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These activities will really make it easy for you to plan your holiday centers. 
Prep them once and enjoy them year after year!

Holiday Activities and New Year Freebie

This week, my students are enjoying many holiday related stations. Here are some pictures of them in action:

My second graders are playing a plural/possessive game. The girl on the left is the answer key girl. She doesn't play the game because she verifies that everyone gives the correct answer.

Here are my second graders sorting parts of speech cards and filling out their recording sheet.

My first and second graders are unscrambling holiday sentences and writing them on their recording sheet. I made the sentences a bit more challenging and they are enjoying figuring out what the big words say. Once they are done, all six sentences make a nicely organized paragraph.

My first graders are playing Kathy Law's Candyland Express – Nouns.

Here, my first graders are sorting common and proper nouns. After, they will fill out a recording sheet to check for mastery.

Here is a second grader drawing candy canes to stuff in his stocking. This is a free activity from A Cupcake for the Teacher. My kindergartners and first graders are doing it, too. I am having them make what they want in their stocking out of paper and gluing it to the top of the stocking. Apparently, most of my first graders want Hershey Bars! I can't believe I forgot to take a picture of one of those! They came out really cute.

You can find the activities shown here in my Winter Holiday Language Activity Pack for first and second graders.

Here is my activity pack for kindergarten. I haven't taken any pictures of them yet!

I'm sure you're all like me and want to plan for the new year before we begin our holiday break. Here is a cute banner my kindergartners are going to make the first day back. Many years ago, I saw something like this in one of my Mailbox Magazines. It has since disappeared, so I made this one from memory. Just click on the image to grab it. I hope you like it.