Christmas Activities & Daily Countdown Gifts for Kindergarten

Delight your Kindergarten students with these unique and hands-on Christmas activities that will keep them engaged and still learning as they count down the last 5 days before Christmas or winter break! This resource includes all materials in both “Christmas Break” and “Winter Break” versions.

Have students who don’t celebrate? I’ve included a non-holiday, snowman themed version of the roll down chart, activity pages, and the gift tags in the winter break section.

Based on the wildly popular 5 Days Before Summer Break, your class will love this roll down anchor chart and simple daily gifts with matching Christmas math and ELA activities. Students use the treats to do the tasks!

Have food allergies or a no-food policy at your school? I’ve included printable paper treats to use as an alternative to do the tasks.

Also available for these grade levels:

• Grade 1
• Grades 2-3
• Grade 4

What’s inside:

• Roll down chart with no-prep printable chart parts
• Projectable daily chart options to use digitally
• 25 Activity pages with meaningful math and ELA skill practice in printable and digital versions
• Booklet covers with Winter Break and Christmas Break terminology
• Student gift tags using both “Christmas” and “Winter” break terminology
• Special section with alternative, snowman themed activity pages, chart parts, booklet cover, and gift tags for students who don’t celebrate Christmas or holidays.
• Printable paper treats to do the tasks for students with food allergies or classrooms and schools with no-food policies

Here’s How It Works…

Each day during the last week before break, roll down the class chart to reveal the gift of the day. Surprise your students with a fun treat and matching activity pages. Students use the treats to add, subtract, measure and graph. They also use them to write, work with word families, practice sight words, and many other skills listed below.

I’ve included 4 skill filled pages for each day. Use all or pick and choose the skills you want your students to review. At the end of the 5 days, use the included cover to staple all the pages into a booklet.

No time for fancy? No worries! Skip the chart and the gift tags and copy the activity pages. Pass out the daily treat on a paper towel so students can complete the tasks.

Christmas activities for Kindergarten include:

Literacy Skills:

• Beginning and ending sounds
• CVC word families
• Rhyming words
• Identify and sort vowels and consonants
• Read and write sight words see, you, the, and
• Read and write color words
• Read and write number words
• Position words- on, under, above

Math Skills:

• Shapes
• Patterns
• Number bonds
• Making 10
• Counting and cardinality
• Addition and subtraction using a ten frame
• Nonstandard measurement
• Graphing

Here’s what happened in my classroom…

T’was the 5 days before Christmas and all through the school

My sugar plums were dancing and testing the rules!

I knew that I needed to reign them all in,

But assessments weren’t done, so I thought with a grin,

I’ll surprise them with gifts each day of the week,

I’ll keep it a secret and won’t let them peek!

But not just a gift, I thought with a wink,

I’ll make tasks to go with them so they’ll have to think!

They’ll be reading and writing and having such fun,

That I surely will get my assessments all done!

Please download the preview for more details and all the Christmas activities for Kindergarten included!

Happy teaching!

-Linda Kamp

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