Christmas Activities for Kids that are also educational

Let's face it, with the Christmas holidays not far away, it's no surprise that some of your students may already seem to be 'checking out' in the classroom - maybe you are too. It's important, though, to keep students working on meaningful activities and not just filling their last few days with 'fluff' and 'busy work.' In this post, you will find a range of Christmas themed activities that will keep your students entertained, but still engaged in meaningful work right up until the last day. Hopefully, these activities will also make your life in the classroom or home school a little easier too. 

Christmas Math Mystery -
​The Case of the Selfish Elf

Capture your students attention with the Case of the Selfish Elf and set them to carry out math work to unlock important clues! This easy print-and-solve math mystery is a fun way to review some important math skills before the holidays.

Christmas Math Mystery: Case of the Selfish Elf - 1st Grade Edition

$4.00

Christmas Math Mystery: the Case of the Selfish Elf. This math activity is a fun way to review and practice mathematical skills in the classroom or at home. Ideal for spiral review, consolidation, math centers, homework, enrichment, early-finisher or the sub-tub.

Easy prep! Just Print & Solve! Or go paperless with the new Google Slides option provided within your download.

Students must complete math worksheets to unlock clues. Then, use their powers of deduction to narrow down the list of possibilities to solve the mystery case!

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Christmas Math Mystery : Case of the Selfish Elf - 2nd Grade Edition

$4.00

Christmas Math Mystery: the Case of the Selfish Elf This math activity is a fun way to review and practice mathematical skills in the classroom or at home. Ideal for spiral review, consolidation, math centers, homework, enrichment, early-finisher or the sub-tub.

Easy prep! Just Print & Solve! Or go paperless with the new Google Slides option provided within your download.

Students must complete math worksheets to unlock clues. Then, use their powers of deduction to narrow down the list of possibilities to solve the mystery case!

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Christmas Math Mystery: Case of the Selfish Elf - 3rd Grade Edition

$4.00

Christmas Math Mystery: the Case of the Selfish Elf. This math activity is a fun way to review and practice mathematical skills in the classroom or at home. Ideal for spiral review, consolidation, math centers, homework, enrichment, early-finisher or the sub-tub.

Easy prep! Just Print & Solve! Or go paperless with the new Google Slides option provided within your download.

Students must complete math worksheets to unlock clues. Then, use their powers of deduction to narrow down the list of possibilities to solve the mystery case!

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Christmas Math Mystery: Case of the Selfish Elf - 4th Grade Edition

$4.00

Christmas Math Mystery: the Case of the Selfish Elf. This math activity is a fun way to review and practice mathematical skills in the classroom or at home. Ideal for spiral review, consolidation, math centers, homework, enrichment, early-finisher or the sub-tub.

Easy prep! Just Print & Solve! Or go paperless with the new Google Slides option provided within your download.

Students must complete math worksheets to unlock clues. Then, use their powers of deduction to narrow down the list of possibilities to solve the mystery case!

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Christmas Math Mystery: Case of the Selfish Elf - 5th Grade Edition

$4.00

Christmas Math Mystery: the Case of the Selfish Elf. This math activity is a fun way to review and practice mathematical skills in the classroom or at home. Ideal for spiral review, consolidation, math centers, homework, enrichment, early-finisher or the sub-tub.

Easy prep! Just Print & Solve! Or go paperless with the new Google Slides option provided within your download.

Students must complete math worksheets to unlock clues. Then, use their powers of deduction to narrow down the list of possibilities to solve the mystery case!

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Christmas Math Mystery: Case of the Selfish Elf - 6th Grade Edition

$4.00

Christmas Math Mystery: the Case of the Selfish Elf. This math activity is a fun way to review and practice mathematical skills in the classroom or at home. Ideal for spiral review, consolidation, math centers, homework, enrichment, early-finisher or the sub-tub.

Easy prep! Just Print & Solve! Or go paperless with the new Google Slides option provided within your download.

Students must complete math worksheets to unlock clues. Then, use their powers of deduction to narrow down the list of possibilities to solve the mystery case!

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Christmas Math Mystery: Case of the Selfish Elf - 7th Grade Edition

$4.00

Christmas Math Mystery: the Case of the Selfish Elf. This math activity is a fun way to review and practice mathematical skills in the classroom or at home. Ideal for spiral review, consolidation, math centers, homework, enrichment, early-finisher or the sub-tub.

Easy prep! Just Print & Solve! Or go paperless with the new Google Slides option provided within your download.

Students must complete math worksheets to unlock clues. Then, use their powers of deduction to narrow down the list of possibilities to solve the mystery case!

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Christmas Math Mystery - 
​The Case of the Zombie Elves

Don't be alarmed, Santa is OK . . . well sort of!
This math mystery will task your student detectives to figure out what cure will heal the zombie elves taking over the North Pole!
Available in printable math mysteries and in a Digital CSI Math Game to play on any device.

Christmas Math Mystery: Case of the Zombie Elves - 3rd Grade Edition

$4.00

Christmas Math Mystery: the Case of the Zombie Elves. This math activity is a fun way to review and practice mathematical skills in the classroom or at home. Ideal for spiral review, consolidation, math centers, homework, enrichment, early-finisher or the sub-tub.

Easy prep! Just Print & Solve! Or go paperless with the new Google Slides option provided within your download.

Students must complete math worksheets to unlock clues. Then, use their powers of deduction to narrow down the list of possibilities to solve the mystery case!

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Christmas Math Mystery: Case of the Zombie Elves - 4th Grade Edition

$4.00

Christmas Math Mystery: the Case of the Zombie Elves. This math activity is a fun way to review and practice mathematical skills in the classroom or at home. Ideal for spiral review, consolidation, math centers, homework, enrichment, early-finisher or the sub-tub. 

Easy prep! Just Print & Solve! Or go paperless with the new Google Slides option provided within your download.

Students must complete math worksheets to unlock clues. Then, use their powers of deduction to narrow down the list of possibilities to solve the mystery case!

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Christmas Math Mystery: Case of the Zombie Elves - 5th Grade Edition

$4.00

Christmas Math Mystery: the Case of the Zombie Elves. This math activity is a fun way to review and practice mathematical skills in the classroom or at home. Ideal for spiral review, consolidation, math centers, homework, enrichment, early-finisher or the sub-tub.

Easy prep! Just Print & Solve! Or go paperless with the new Google Slides option provided within your download.

Students must complete math worksheets to unlock clues. Then, use their powers of deduction to narrow down the list of possibilities to solve the mystery case!

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Christmas Math Mystery: Case of the Zombie Elves - 6th Grade Edition

$4.00

Christmas Math Mystery: the Case of the Zombie Elves. This math activity is a fun way to review and practice mathematical skills in the classroom or at home. Ideal for spiral review, consolidation, math centers, homework, enrichment, early-finisher or the sub-tub.

EASY PREP, print and solve!

Distance Learning Update: I've added a Word Document within the folder that contains a Google Doc link to share this resource with your students via Google Classroom or Drive.

Students must complete math worksheets to unlock clues. Then, use their powers of deduction to narrow down the list of possibilities to solve the mystery case!

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Christmas Math Mystery: Case of the Zombie Elves - 7th Grade Edition

$4.00

Christmas Math Mystery: the Case of the Zombie Elves. This math activity is a fun way to review and practice mathematical skills in the classroom or at home. Ideal for spiral review, consolidation, math centers, homework, enrichment, early-finisher or the sub-tub.

Distance Learning Update: I've added a Word Document within the folder that contains a Google Doc link to share this resource with your students via Google Classroom or Drive.

Students must complete math worksheets to unlock clues. Then, use their powers of deduction to narrow down the list of possibilities to solve the mystery case!

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Christmas Math Mystery: Case of the Zombie Elves - 8th Grade Edition

$4.00

Christmas Math Mystery: the Case of the Zombie Elves. This math activity is a fun way to review and practice mathematical skills in the classroom or at home. Ideal for spiral review, consolidation, math centers, homework, enrichment, early-finisher or the sub-tub.

EASY PREP, print and solve!

Distance Learning Update: I've added a Word Document within the folder that contains a Google Doc link to share this resource with your students via Google Classroom or Drive.

Students must complete math worksheets to unlock clues. Then, use their powers of deduction to narrow down the list of possibilities to solve the mystery case!

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Or check out the Three Levels in One Digital Math Game:

Free Clue Trial

The Password to the free trial page is savesanta21

Buy the Full Game on TpT

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Christmas Reading Mystery -
​Rescue Rudolph!

Once Upon a Crime, someone kidnapped Rudolph! This print and solve reading mystery will require your students to engage in reading comprehension, critical thinking, spelling, vocabulary, and deductive reasoning skills to rescue Rudolph! Two options for differentiation provided within the one packet. 

Christmas Reading Mystery: Once Upon a Crime, Rescue Rudolph!

$4.50

Reading Mystery: Once Upon A Crime, RESCUE RUDOLPH!

(Teaching Resource - Worksheets pdf + Video Hook)

Grade Suitability: 2nd, 3rd, 4th

(This varies depending on the reading ability of students. Some guidance may be required for younger students.)

Your students will have fun solving this mystery while learning skills in reading, comprehension, spelling, vocabulary, critical thinking, and deductive reasoning!

EASY PREP Teaching Resource, just print and solve! (Google Slides option provided too)

Apart from printing paper and a screen to view the video hook, no additional materials are required to set this activity up in the classroom or at home. Now with optional Google Slides added to the pack to complete the worksheets digitally.

Optional Video Hook and ending video provided.

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Christmas Literacy Mystery - 
The Case of the Reckless Reindeer

Need a more challenging reading comprehension mystery? An activity that will encourage lots of quality discussions and make your students feel like real detectives? This Christmas Literacy Mystery will require your students to carefully analyze the text, make inferences, and apply critical and deductive reasoning skills to solve which reindeer caused the destruction in Santa's toy factory.

Christmas Literacy Mystery - The Case of the Reckless Reindeer

$4.00

This Christmas Private Eye CSI Literacy Mystery will require your students to read the text carefully, make inferences, collect evidence, and unlock clues to solve the Case of the Reckless Reindeer. NO PREP required, print and go! Everything that you need for this activity is in the download; all you need is paper to print and pencils to write!

Easy prep! Just Print & Solve! Or go paperless with the new Google Slides option provided within your download.

TARGETS

- Reading

- Comprehension

- Making Inferences

- Main Idea

- Rhyming Words

- Drawing Conclusions

- Analyzing Text for Clues

- Finding and Analyzing Evidence

- Critical Thinking

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Christmas Math Quest 
Reindeer Round-up

Reading and math combined with this Christmas Math Quest! Your students will be reading a story and solving math puzzles along the way to help Santa Round-Up the Reindeer from all over the world! Three levels of differentiation offered in the one pack - easy, medium, and hard. 

Christmas Math Quest: Reindeer Round-Up

$7.95

This Christmas send your students on an epic Math Quest with this fun story “Reindeer Round-Up”. This is a fun activity to get some extra math practice in or for your early finishers. With seven exciting chapters to work through, students can end up with one of four possible endings as they try to help Santa round up all of his reindeer from their holidays around the world.

This is an ideal Christmas math activity for enrichment, early finishers, sub tub or to just add a bit of extra fun to math review time around the holidays.

EASY, MEDIUM, and HARD worksheet versions included!

Distance Learning Update: I've added a Word Document within the folder that contains a Google Doc link to share this resource with your students via Google Classroom or Drive. 

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Math Project
My Winter Wonderland

Do you need a math activity around the holidays without it being a Christmas theme? My Winter Wonderland is a fun math project to do with the season and will engage your students into using a variety of math skills! Print the pages, staple into a booklet, and your students are ready to work through the tasks. 

My Winter Wonderland Math Project

$5.00

My Winter Wonderland is a fun way to practice a variety of math skills and helps your students to see how math is applied to the real world. Winter Math Project: My Winter Wonderland takes students through 10 exciting and educational levels to build and run their own magical Winter Wonderland.

In your download you will receive a pdf file, which contains:

- Teacher Instructions

- Printable Booklet for each student to use when completing the project

- OPTIONAL USE FOR DIFFERENTIATION: Stencil cut outs (measured to meet the area requirements in level 2) of rides, shops, restaurants, decorations and facilities. Students can cut and paste their purchases onto their land map instead of drawing in themselves. Custom options available too.

- A new pdf file marked 'easy' is included. This version of the project reduces the $$$ amounts.

Easy to prep for you! Plus, it's a fun way for your kids to do math too!

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Christmas Fun Freebies!

Here are some more fun resources for you to enjoy with your class! All of these are free to download. Some make for a great math center, others as a class activity, and some for early finishers. 

Christmas Mini-Mystery Logic Puzzle Freebie #8

$0.00

Free Christmas Mini-Mystery Logic Puzzle Freebie #8

Download, print, and solve!

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Christmas Word Search Puzzle

$0.00

Here's a fun Christmas Activity Word Search! Students must search for the Christmas themed words that could be forward, backwards, horizontal, vertical or diagonal.

Great early finisher activity or filler around Christmas time. 

Free to download, print and solve!

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Christmas Word Problem Math Prompt Cards

$0.00

These Christmas 'What's the question?' cards are great to help your students create their own Christmas math word problems. Differentiate this card set by setting the challenge to make word problems involving either multiplication, division, negative numbers for higher grades OR keep it to basic addition and subtraction for lower grades.

HOW TO USE

Each student receives a card and must create a math word problem that will result to the information given on that card. After the creating part, students swap their Christmasmath word problems with other students. Once students complete the word problem, they check in with the creator to see if they answered it correctly!

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Christmas Narrative Writing Activity

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Inspire your students to write a fun Christmas story with these prompts provided on writing paper ready to go!

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Christmas Math Game Printable - Sleigh Stackers

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A Christmas math gift for you! Open your present to receive a fun printable board game that will get your students in the Christmas spirit and still get some math practice!

Options for differentiation included.

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Fraction Christmas Free Worksheet - Simplify and Decode

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Students will need to simplify the fractions and then use their simplified answers to help decode the answer to the worksheet question about a singing elf!

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