$5 - $10 Elementary School Holidays/Seasonal Activities (by date, oldest first)

Teach kids about gratitude through yoga and mindfulness

Teaching kids about gratitude is a mindset that will benefit them for years to come. Research tells us that gratitude has many benefits, including greater life satisfaction and better attitudes about school.

Gratitude provides perspective for kids–they can learn to see through the eyes of others, and through that, they can learn to form healthy relationships with themselves and others.

For children, gratitude can be experienced through direct experience, through dramatization, and through adult modeling. We’ve included games, meditations, activities, crafts, and yoga poses to help get in touch with a sense of gratitude.

We hope you enjoy it!

Printable Gratitude Yoga Cards

Use this yoga and mindfulness activity packet to teach little ones about gratitude. Print and cut out our six yoga cards and use them in the classroom, yoga studio, or at home! Also included are written instructions for kids, giving cues for children to correctly practice each pose.

This packet includes:

• Six (6) printable yoga cards
• Four (4) gratitude mindfulness activities and tips for teaching mindfulness
• How-to instruction for each activity, written for kids
• Nine (9) coloring pages
• Journaling pages with prompts for kids

Gratitude Yoga is a 30 page PDF download that you can view on your phone, tablet, computer or print to paper.

This bundle includes five Halloween themed Color Sorting Mats: Candy, Skeletons, Mummies, Monster Faces, and Spiders. Also includes Scribble Color Sorting Mats so that you can mix up the sets and students can sort skeletons, mummies, spiders, and more all on the same mat! Purchase this bundle to save 30% off the individual price!

These sorting mats come in two versions - one version to laminate and use in a sorting center and the other version to print and give to students as a worksheet so they can cut and paste on their own. Choose which style fits your classroom! Use any of the themes individually or mix them up and use them together for a total of six different sorting games.

Each of the five sets includes:

-Half-page, full-color sorting mat for each color

-Sorting cards for each color, split into two-color sets. Comes with instructions for both sorting centers and worksheets

-Half-page and full-page versions of the sorting worksheets for individual student work

Scribble Color Sorting Mat set includes:

-Half-page, full-color sorting mat for each color

-Half-page and full-page versions of the sorting worksheets for individual student work

When I use these with my kids, I print and laminate all of the full-color sorting mats and sorting cards so that they can use all the sets at once, but the sets are versatile and can be used in any way that fits your classroom or homeschool!

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Looking for other PreK/Preschool activities?

Fall Morning Work Preschool

Fall Vocabulary Word Wall Cards

Colorful Cupcakes - Trace, Color & Build

Colorful Fish - Trace, Color & Build

Dinosaur Math Puzzles - Numbers, Words, Tallies & more

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This bundle includes six Christmas themed Color Sorting Mats: Candy Canes, Santa, Reindeer, Christmas Stockings, Wrapped Gifts, and Nutcrackers. Also includes Scribble Color Sorting Mats so that you can mix up the sets and students can sort stockings, gifts, Santa, and more all on the same mat! Purchase this bundle to save 30% off the individual price!

These sorting mats come in two versions - one version to laminate and use in a sorting center and the other version to print and give to students as a worksheet so they can cut and paste on their own. Choose which style fits your classroom! Use any of the themes individually or mix them up and use them together for a total of six different sorting games.

Each of the four sets includes:

-Half-page, full-color sorting mat for each color

-Sorting cards for each color, split into two-color sets. Comes with instructions for both sorting centers and worksheets

-Half-page and full-page versions of the sorting worksheets for individual student work

Scribble Color Sorting Mat set includes:

-Half-page, full-color sorting mat for each color

-Half-page and full-page versions of the sorting worksheets for individual student work

When I use these with my kids, I print and laminate all of the full-color sorting mats and sorting cards so that they can use all the sets at once, but the sets are versatile and can be used in any way that fits your classroom or homeschool!

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Looking for other Christmas PreK/Preschool activities?

Christmas Around the World Word Wall/Write & Wipe Cards

Christmas Nativity Tracing and Prewriting Activities

Christmas Cutting Practice Freebie

Christmas Tracing & Prewriting - Freebie

Winter Morning Work - PreK

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This bundle includes six Christmas themed Color Sorting Mats: Christmas Candy, Gingerbread Men, Christmas Ornaments, Christmas Lights, Christmas Trees, and Angels. Also includes Scribble Color Sorting Mats so that you can mix up the sets and students can sort ornaments, light bulbs, trees, and more all on the same mat! Purchase this bundle to save 30% off the individual price!

These sorting mats come in two versions - one version to laminate and use in a sorting center and the other version to print and give to students as a worksheet so they can cut and paste on their own. Choose which style fits your classroom! Use any of the themes individually or mix them up and use them together for a total of six different sorting games.

Each of the four sets includes:

-Half-page, full-color sorting mat for each color

-Sorting cards for each color, split into two-color sets. Comes with instructions for both sorting centers and worksheets

-Half-page and full-page versions of the sorting worksheets for individual student work

Scribble Color Sorting Mat set includes:

-Half-page, full-color sorting mat for each color

-Half-page and full-page versions of the sorting worksheets for individual student work

When I use these with my kids, I print and laminate all of the full-color sorting mats and sorting cards so that they can use all the sets at once, but the sets are versatile and can be used in any way that fits your classroom or homeschool!

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Looking for other Christmas PreK/Preschool activities?

Christmas Around the World Word Wall/Write & Wipe Cards

Christmas Nativity Tracing and Prewriting Activities

Christmas Cutting Practice Freebie

Christmas Tracing & Prewriting - Freebie

Winter Morning Work - PreK

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This bundle includes both the Christmas Bingo and Christmas Bingo Jr sets, perfect for mixed age Christmas parties! This bundle includes two complete sets of bingo that use the same bingo caller cards for easy gameplay and buying them in this bundle saves you 20% off the price of the games individually!

Each set comes with caller cards, card markers and 30 unique full-page bingo cards each for 60 cards total. The regular set has 24 spaces, while the Jr set has 9 larger spaces, all with Christmas images like a tree, nutcracker, santa hat, candy cane, stocking, fireplace, and more! These are ready to cut apart and go, or laminate and use again and again.

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Looking for other fun holiday activities?

What Belongs? Holidays

Roll & Cover - Winter

Label the Parts - Winter and Holidays

Christmas Spelling Word Work Pack - No Prep

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This bundle includes four Autumn themed Color Sorting Mats: Acorns, Apples, Pumpkins, and Turkeys. Also includes Scribble Color Sorting Mats so that you can mix up the sets and students can sort skeletons, mummies, spiders, and more all on the same mat! Purchase this bundle to save 30% off the individual price!

These sorting mats come in two versions - one version to laminate and use in a sorting center and the other version to print and give to students as a worksheet so they can cut and paste on their own. Choose which style fits your classroom! Use any of the themes individually or mix them up and use them together for a total of six different sorting games.

Each of the four sets includes:

-Half-page, full-color sorting mat for each color

-Sorting cards for each color, split into two-color sets. Comes with instructions for both sorting centers and worksheets

-Half-page and full-page versions of the sorting worksheets for individual student work

Scribble Color Sorting Mat set includes:

-Half-page, full-color sorting mat for each color

-Half-page and full-page versions of the sorting worksheets for individual student work

When I use these with my kids, I print and laminate all of the full-color sorting mats and sorting cards so that they can use all the sets at once, but the sets are versatile and can be used in any way that fits your classroom or homeschool!

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Looking for other PreK/Preschool activities?

Fall Morning Work Preschool

Fall Vocabulary Word Wall Cards

Colorful Cupcakes - Trace, Color & Build

Colorful Fish - Trace, Color & Build

Dinosaur Math Puzzles - Numbers, Words, Tallies & more

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Looking for a fun way to get your students moving? Want to have them collaborating at the beginning of the year? Want to leave a lasting and fun impression upon them? Look no further. The Beginning of the Year Escape Room will have students moving and working together to solve different tasks: Puzzle, Maze, Growth Mindset, and Embedded Message.

Looking for a fun way to get your students moving? Want to have them collaborating at the end of the year? Want to leave a lasting and fun impression upon them? Look no further. The End of the Year Escape Room will have students moving and working together to solve different tasks: Puzzle, Maze, Riddles, and Embedded Message.

These alphabet clip cards are the perfect way for preschoolers and kindergartners to practice letter recognition and matching capital and lowercase letters. Students can also practice building fine motor skills by using clips to mark each letter.

What is Included:

There are 4 clip cards for each letter of the alphabet. Activities include matching the capital letter to a matching capital letter, matching a lowercase letter to the matching lowercase letter and matching capital letters with the correct lowercase letters.

How to Use:

Students will take one clip card, look at the letter on the card and then clip the letter that matches. The teach may choose to use small manipulatives, like mini erasers, bingo chips or counters to mark each correct response. The cards can also be laminated for students to use dry erase markers to mark correct answers.

Where to Use:

• Literacy Center
• Morning Tubs or Baskets

Skills Assessed

• Recognizing and identifying capital and lowercase letters
• Matching a capital or lowercase letter to their letter counterpart

These letter clip cards are a low prep option for teachers to give to students to complete. The cards simply need to be printed and cut apart before being placed inside a learning station.

This bundle contains the following products:

Fall Themed Alphabet Clip Cards

Spring Themed Alphabet Clip Cards

Summer Themed Alphabet Clip Cards

Winter Themed Alphabet Clip Cards

**All images are my own work

These themed number games are a great addition to any themed center for students who are practicing number recognition up to 100. This game is for small group instruction or can be used as a whole class game.

Designed for the pocket chart, Where's the Object? is a game for centers or whole group instruction where an object is hidden behind another object. A poem is chanted where the student(s) must say the number they think the hidden object is behind. Once guessed, the number is removed. If the hidden object is there, then it must be hidden again to play further. If is is not there, then the poem is chanted again and a new letter is guessed. This game has numbers 1 through 100.

Themes Included

Apples (Where's the Worm?)

Fall (Where's the Acorn)

Halloween (Where's the Black Cat?)

Spring (Where's the Bug?)

Summer (Where's the Sun?)

Winter (Where's the Penguin?)

More Math Centers

Themed Addition Center Bundle

Counting Mats 1-20 Bundle

Practice preschool skills with this summer themed preschool activity bundle. This bundle includes a wide variety of center activities, worksheets and games specifically for preschool and pre-k.

What is Included:

Alphabet Clip Cards

Alphabet Puzzles and Cards

Counting Mats 1-20

Tracing Lines Center

Where's the Sun? Letter Identification Game

Worksheet and Activity Packet

Related Links:

Winter Themed Preschool Bundle

Groundhog's Day Themed Preschool Bundle

These seasonal letter and number cards and puzzles are a great activity for preschool and kindergarten students. Students can practice letter and number recognition by matching capital and lowercase letters, matching numbers and number words up to 20, as well as matching numbers and pictures up to 10. The cards and puzzles include spring, winter, fall and summer sets.

What is Included:

• Alphabet cards for capital and lowercase letters
• Number cards for numbers 1-20 and number words.
• 2 piece alphabet puzzles that match capital and lowercase letters
• 2 piece number and number word match
• 2 piece number and counting object match

Students will love the hands on activities in this resource. There are a variety of different games and activities that students can complete independently or with a partner.

Ways to Use the Cards:

• Matching Game: Match capital and lowercase letters or numbers to the number words.
• Fishing Game: Attach a paper clip to the card and use a magnetic fishing pole to "catch" the letters or numbers.
• Salt/Sand Tray: Use these cards as a model to show students what to write in the sand.
• Letter or Number Hunts: Have students find the letters or numbers that you have hidden around the room.
• ABC Order or Number Order: Have students place letters or numbers in the correct order.
• Pocket Chart Game: Place the cards into a pocket chart and hide a picture behind one of the cards. Have students guess which card the hidden picture is behind.

With a wide variety of uses, these cards will allow students to be engaged with learning their letters and numbers, as well as learning number words and practice counting.

How to Use the Puzzles

• Task Box Activities
• Math Centers
• Morning Baskets or Tubs

All of the cards and puzzles in this resource can be stored in task boxes. This allows teachers to have an easy to set up activity that students can easily clean and put away themselves.

Skills Assessed:

• Number Recognition
• Counting to 10
• Number Words to 10
• Number Order
• Letter Recognition
• Matching Capital and Lowercase Letters
• Letter Order

Each part of this resource is low prep. They all just need to be printed out and cut apart before use. The teacher may choose to laminate the pieces for durability.

** The sets in this bundle are currently being updated and may not include all of the puzzle and card options listed above. The winter set and fall set already have the number cards added.

This bundle contains the following products:

Fall Themed Alphabet Cards and Puzzles

Spring Themed Alphabet Cards and Puzzles

Summer Themed Alphabet Cards and Puzzles

Winter Themed Alphabet Cards and Puzzles

These alphabet recognition games are designed for the pocket chart but can be used on a table top. There are 4 different Where's the _____? games with this bundle. The games can be used for letter recognition or for letter sound recognition.

1. Where's the Acorn: Students must find the acorn hidden behind a fall leaf.

2. Where's the Penguin: Students must find the penguin hidden behind the igloo.

3. Where's the Ladybug: Students must find the ladybug hidden behind the flower.

4. Where's the Sun: Students must find the sun hidden behind a cloud.

To play, a poem is chanted where the student(s) must say the letter they think the object is behind. Once guessed, the letter is removed. If the object is behind the letter, then the onject must be hidden again to play further. If the object is not behind the letter, then the poem is chanted again and a new letter is guessed. This game has letters in both capital and lowercase forms.

These cards can also be used as a matching game, where the capital and lowercase cards can be matched.

More Alphabet Resources

Alphabet Playdough Mats Bundle

Alphabet Cards and Puzzles Bundle

These number recognition games are designed for the pocket chart but can be used on a table top. There are 4 different Where's the _____? games with this bundle. The games can be used for number recognition or for number word recognition. 1. Where's the Acorn: Students must find the acorn hidden behind a fall leaf. 2. Where's the Penguin: Students must find the penguin hidden behind the igloo. 3. Where's the Ladybug: Students must find the ladybug hidden behind the flower. 4. Where's the Sun: Students must find the sun hidden behind a cloud. To play, a poem is chanted where the student(s) must say the number they think the object is behind. Once guessed, the number is removed. If the object is behind the number, then the object must be hidden again to play further. If the object is not behind the number, then the poem is chanted again and a new number is guessed. This game has numbers and number words up to 20.

These holiday sight word cards make a fun holiday literacy center or holiday sight word game for students to enjoy while practicing sight words from the preprimer or pre-k word list.

These sight word cards have a variety of uses in the classroom from games, to instructional tools, to center props.

Ways to Use

• Flash Cards
• Memory Game
• Sand or Salt Tray Cards
• Writing Center Reference Cards
• Place in Alphabetical Order
• Write the Room

Each word is printed on its own themed card for students to use to practice reading, writing and spelling each sight word.

Sets Included:

• The Christmas cards have the sight words printed on Christmas trees.
• The Halloween cards have the sight words printed on pumpkins or candy corn.
• The Valentine's Day cards have the sight words printed on hearts of various shades of purple, pink and red.
• The St. Patrick's Day cards have the sight words of shamrocks of different patterns.
• The Easter cards have the sight words printed on Easter eggs of different patterns.
• The Patriotic cards have the sight words printed on red, white and blue stars.
• The Thanksgiving cards have the sight words printed on turkeys.

Skills Assessed:

• Reading sight words
• Writing sight words

This packet contains all 40 Preprimer Sight Words:

a, and, away, big, blue, can, come, down, find, for, funny, go, help, here, I, in, is, it, jump, little, look, make, me, my, not, one, play, red, run, said, see, the, three, to, two, up, we, where, yellow, you

Where is the Object? These seasonal sight word game is great for students who are practicing sight word recognition and beginning reading skills. This game can be used in a pocket chart or on a table top for an early education classroom.

Products Included:

• Winter: Where's the Penguin?
• Spring: Where's the Ladybug?
• Summer: Where's the Sun?
• Fall: Where's the Acorn?

What is Included:

• Sight word cards for the preprimer sight word list.
• Penguin cards for hiding

The cards are available in two formats, 6 to a page and 4 to a page to accommodate different sized pocket charts.

Ways to Use:

• small group game
• whole class game
• circle time game
• student led literacy center
• one on one instruction to target specific sight words for struggling students

How to Play:

Where's the ________? is a game for centers or whole group instruction where an object is hidden behind a sight word card. A poem is chanted where the student(s) must say the sight word they think the object is behind. Once guessed, the sight word is removed. If the object is behind the sight word card, then the object must be hidden again to play further. If the object is not behind the sight word card, then the poem is chanted again with a new sight word.

This packet contains the following sight words:

a, and, away, big, blue, can, come, down, find, for, funny, go, help, here, I, in, is, it, jump, little, look, make, me, my, not, one, play, red, run, said, see, the, three, to, two, up, we, where, yellow, you

These holiday sight word cards make a fun holiday literacy center or holiday sight word game for students to enjoy while practicing sight words from the first grade word list.

These sight word cards have a variety of uses in the classroom from games, to instructional tools, to center props.

Ways to Use

• Flash Cards
• Memory Game
• Sand or Salt Tray Cards
• Writing Center Reference Cards
• Place in Alphabetical Order
• Write the Room

Each word is printed on its own themed card for students to use to practice reading, writing and spelling each sight word.

Sets Included:

• The Christmas cards have the sight words printed on Christmas trees.
• The Halloween cards have the sight words printed on pumpkins or candy corn.
• The Valentine's Day cards have the sight words printed on hearts of various shades of purple, pink and red.
• The St. Patrick's Day cards have the sight words of shamrocks of different patterns.
• The Easter cards have the sight words printed on Easter eggs of different patterns.
• The Patriotic cards have the sight words printed on red, white and blue stars.
• The Thanksgiving cards have the sight words printed on turkeys.

Skills Assessed:

• Reading sight words
• Writing sight words

This product contains all 41 First Grade Sight Words:

after, again, an, any, as, ask, by, could, every, fly, from, give, going, had, has, her, him, his, how, just, know, let, live, may, of, old, once, open, over, put, round, some, stop, take, thank, them, then, think, walk, were, when

These holiday sight word cards make a fun holiday literacy center or holiday sight word game for students to enjoy while practicing sight words from the primer word list.

These sight word cards have a variety of uses in the classroom from games, to instructional tools, to center props.

Ways to Use

• Flash Cards
• Memory Game
• Sand or Salt Tray Cards
• Writing Center Reference Cards
• Place in Alphabetical Order
• Write the Room

Each word is printed on its own themed card for students to use to practice reading, writing and spelling each sight word.

Sets Included:

• The Christmas cards have the sight words printed on Christmas trees.
• The Halloween cards have the sight words printed on pumpkins or candy corn.
• The Valentine's Day cards have the sight words printed on hearts of various shades of purple, pink and red.
• The St. Patrick's Day cards have the sight words of shamrocks of different patterns.
• The Easter cards have the sight words printed on Easter eggs of different patterns.
• The Patriotic cards have the sight words printed on red, white and blue stars.
• The Thanksgiving cards have the sight words printed on turkeys.

Skills Assessed:

• Reading sight words
• Writing sight words

This product contains all 52 Primer sight words:

all, am, are, at, ate, be, black, brown, but, came, did, do, eat, four, get, good, have, he, into, like, must, new, no, now, on, our, out, please, pretty, ran, ride, saw, say, she, so, soon, that, there, they, this, too, under, want, was, well, went, what, white, who, will, with, yes

Where is the ladybug? This spring sight word game is great for students who are practicing sight word recognition and beginning reading skills. This game can be used in a pocket chart or on a table top for an early education classroom.

What is Included:

• Sight word cards for all 220 sight words
• Ladybug cards for hiding

The cards are available in two formats, 6 to a page and 4 to a page to accommodate different sized pocket charts.

Ways to Use:

• small group game
• whole class game
• circle time game
• student led literacy center
• one on one instruction to target specific sight words for struggling students

How to Play:

Where's the Ladybug is a game for centers or whole group instruction where a ladybug is hidden behind a flower. A poem is chanted where the student(s) must say the sight word they think the ladybug is behind. Once guessed, the sight word is removed. If the ladybug is behind the flower, then the ladybug must be hidden again to play further. If the ladybug is not behind the flower, then the poem is chanted again with a new sight word.

These heart sight word cards make a fun Valentine's Day literacy center or Valentine's Day sight word game for students to enjoy while practicing sight words from the Fry 1-300 word list.

These sight word cards have a variety of uses in the classroom from games, to instructional tools, to center props.

Ways to Use

• Flash Cards
• Memory Game
• Sand or Salt Tray Cards
• Writing Center Reference Cards
• Place in Alphabetical Order
• Write the Room

Each word is printed on its own clover card for students to use to practice reading, writing and spelling each sight word.

Skills Assessed:

• Reading sight words
• Writing sight words