1st Grade Christmas, Chanukah, & Kwanzaa Activities (by date, oldest first)

Christmas Color by CVC Word puzzles covering short a, e, i, o, and u word families. Each color by word puzzle features 4 to 5 CVC words for a vowel family in two difficulty levels for 10 puzzles total. I've included both a picture clue set and a word clue set. In the picture clue set, students look at the picture of the word and then find the corresponding word to color. In the word clue set, students have the CVC word to look at and find the matching word to color in the puzzle. No prep! Just print and go.

Words Included:

Short a - tag, fan, cap, pan

Short e - bed, gem, pen, wet

Short i - win, lid, pig, pit, dip

Short o - pot, hot, box, top, dog

Short u - tub, gum, bug, sun

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Check out my other CVC activites:

*all of my CVC activities use the same words and images for cohesive learning*

CVC Blending Cards - 85 Words with and without pictures

CVC Word Family Rearrange Puzzles -

85 Words

Seasons Color by CVC Word Bundle

CVC Word Memory Game

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These Hanukkah Cut & Paste center activities are a fun way to fill your math and literacy centers this December! Each one page printable features a cut and paste activity, themed for Hanukkah with gelt, menorahs, dreidels, candles, and more. Activities include sorting smallest to largest and largest to smallest, word match, counting, patterns, and skip counting.

16 activities are included in full color, as well as 15 of those in a black and white version for easy printing.

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Pair these with my other products! These center activities is designed to accompany my other winter holidays products and can be used in conjunction with them to bring more winter holiday fun into the classroom! Find those products below...

Hanukkah Tracing - Prewriting & Writing Centers

Hanukkah Puzzles and Color by Letter Center Activites

Winter Holiday Vocabulary Cards - Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, &

Chinese New Year

What Belongs-Holiday Edition

Label the Parts - Winter and Holidays

Christmas Cut and Paste Math & Literacy Center Activities

Kwanzaa Tracing - Prewriting & Writing Centers

Christmas Tracing - Prewriting & Writing Centers

Christmas Tracing - FREEBIE Preview **Try before you buy!**

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Add some fun to your December plans with these Christmas Nativity writing center activities! These no prep activities are made to help young learners write new words during the lead up to Christmas. They are perfect for preschool classes, Sunday school, religious education classes, catechism classes, and more! They are also great for ESL students learning about the Christmas holiday. Each page features two half-page activities where students trace the word, color the word, and then cut and paste to build the word. Words/names included in this activity: Jesus Mary Joseph manger Gaspar Melchior Balthazar wise men kings gold myrrh frankincense shepherd sheep donkey camel angel star Holy Family Want to introduce the holiday words used in this unit before students try writing them? Use my Christmas Nativity Vocabulary Cards! ***************************************************************************** Looking for other fun holiday activities? Christmas Tracing Prewriting & Writing Center Activities - Try this before you buy it for FREE here Christmas Bingo Jr with 30 Unique Cards What Belongs? Holiday Edition - Year Long Holiday Set Label the Parts - Winter and Holidays Colorful Christmas Trace Color & Build Writing Center Activities Bundle ***************************************************************************** Before you go... Follow me to be the first to know about discounts, sales, and new products! Get credit to use on your next purchase • Leave feedback for any purchases you've made and TeachShare will give you a credit toward your next purchase! Plus, feedback helps me make better products tailored to what my customers are looking for. *****************************************************************************

Just like my Christmas Bingo, this junior version is a complete set with bingo caller cards, card markers in four different designs, and 30 unique full-page bingo cards. Perfect for learning symbols of Christmas, practicing holiday vocab, for a fun game during a classroom party or for speech therapy, young learners and ESL students! These are ready to cut apart and go, or laminate and use again and again.

Introduce the Christmas words used in the bingo game before you play with the Winter Holiday Vocabulary Word Wall Cards.

Have a range of ages playing along? Check out my Christmas Bingo set. These cards have more bingo spaces, smaller words, and smaller markers, but have the exact same images so you can use them together with the junior set.

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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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These Christmas Cut & Paste center activities are a fun way to fill your math and literacy centers this December! Each one page printable features a cut and paste activity, themed for Christmas with trees, gingerbread, stockings, and more. Activities include sorting smallest to largest and largest to smallest, word match, counting, patterns, and skip counting.

Both color and black and white versions of the 18 activities are included for easy printing.

This is included in my Christmas Activities, Game, and Centers Big Bundle. If you're looking to purchase this or any of my other Christmas units, buy the bundle and save 20%!

Looking for more holiday fun?

Pair these with my other products! These center activities is designed to accompany my other winter holidays products and can be used in conjunction with them to bring more winter holiday fun into the classroom! Find those products below...

Chinese New Year Tracing - Prewriting & Writing Centers

Kwanzaa Tracing - Prewriting & Writing Centers

Hanukkah Tracing - Prewriting & Writing Centers

Christmas Tracing - Prewriting & Writing Centers

Christmas Tracing - FREEBIE Preview **Try before you buy!**

Christmas Bingo Jr with 30 Unique Cards

What Belongs-Holiday Edition

Label the Parts - Winter and Holidays

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Looking for fun ways to add some holiday spirit into your math and literacy centers? These Christmas Puzzles and Games feature fun, no prep activities that can easily be added to any center! They provide opportunities for counting, letter and word recognition, and motor skills, while featuring Christmas symbols like gingerbread, trees, holly, poinsettias, and more. Included: -2 picture puzzles in three different levels for both beginner and more advanced students in both color and black and white -1 counting picture puzzle in both color and black and white -12 two piece puzzles for letter recognition in both color and black and white -12 three piece puzzles for word recognition in both color and black and white -1 fill in the pieces puzzle in color -3 fun find-it activities in color This is included in my Christmas Activities, Game, and Centers Big Bundle. If you're looking to purchase this or any of my other Christmas units, buy the bundle and save 20%! Looking for more holiday fun? Pair these with my other products! These center activities is designed to accompany my other winter holidays products and can be used in conjunction with them to bring more winter holiday fun into the classroom! Find those products below... Christmas Cut and Paste Math & Literacy Center Activities Kwanzaa Tracing - Prewriting & Writing Centers Hanukkah Tracing - Prewriting & Writing Centers Christmas Tracing - Prewriting & Writing Centers Christmas Tracing - FREEBIE Preview **Try before you buy!** Christmas Bingo Jr with 30 Unique Cards What Belongs-Holiday Edition Label the Parts - Winter and Holidays ***************************************************************************** Before you go... Follow me to be the first to know about discounts, sales, and new products! Get credit to use on your next purchase • Leave feedback for any purchases you've made and TeachShare will give you a credit toward your next purchase! Plus, feedback helps me make better products tailored to what my customers are looking for. *****************************************************************************

Introduce or review CVC words all year long with this Holidays Color by CVC Word Bundle! Each holiday unit comes with five puzzles in two difficulty levels and each puzzle covers a different vowel family. I've included both a picture clue set and a word clue set. In the picture clue set, students look at the picture of the word and then find the corresponding word to color. In the word clue set, students have the CVC word to look at and find the matching word to color in the puzzle. No prep! Just print and go.

With this bundle you get a total of 120 puzzles that cover holidays throughout the year. All items are available individually, but buying them in this bundle saves you 20%!

Holidays included in this bundle are:

Back to School

Halloween

Thanksgiving

Christmas

New Year's Eve

Groundhog Day

Chinese New Year

Valentine's Day

Martin Luther King Jr. Day

St. Patrick's Day

Easter

Fourth of July

Want some of these units but not all? Want to mix in non-holiday units? Build a custom bundle by choosing from any of our 40+ units and you'll still save 20% off the list price! You can choose from a 4 Unit Bundle, a 6 Unit Bundle, or a 10 Unit Bundle.

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Check out my other CVC activites:

*all of my CVC activities use the same words and images for cohesive learning*

CVC Blending Cards - 85 Words with and without pictures

CVC Word Family Rearrange Puzzles -

85 Words

St. Patrick's Day Color by CVC Word

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Get every CVC word unit in my store at a 20% discount! Plus, free updates of any new units!

This bundle includes every CVC Word resource in the Three Little Homeschoolers store. That includes all 40+ Color by CVC Word Puzzle sets, CVC Memory Game, CVC Rearrange Puzzles, CVC Blending Flash Cards, and CVC Word Wall Cards. In addition, any future units posted in the store will be added here and will be made available free for anyone who purchases this bundle.

What's included in each resource?

Color by CVC Word Puzzles: Each set includes 5 puzzles in 2 difficulty levels for a total of more than 400 puzzles. Each color by word puzzle features 4 to 6 CVC words for a vowel family in both difficulties. I've included both a picture clue set and a word clue set. In the picture clue set, students look at the picture of the word and then find the corresponding word to color. In the word clue set, students have the CVC word to look at and find the matching word to color in the puzzle. No prep! Just print and go.

CVC Blending Cards: CVC Cards in 7 different styles for differentiated learning. Let these cards grow with your students! 85 words covering short a, e, i, o, and u. Each word comes in 7 different styles including phonics dots and arrows, phonics dots, word only, and picture only. Almost 600 cards included! Laminate the picture only cards and have students create the CVC word with dry erase markers or letter manipulatives.

Cards are four to a page so that they're large enough to put up on the wall but still small enough for students to use easily. These are low prep...just print, cut and laminate. Please check out the preview above to see examples of the different card styles!

CVC Word Rearrange Puzzles: CVC Words from short a, e, i, o, and u word families in rearrange/cut-apart 3 piece puzzles. Print, laminate, and play! Puzzles are self-checking and show both the word and the picture when students put them together. This set has 85 puzzles/words and comes in both a full color set and a black and white set. Use the black and white set as a coloring activity before cutting apart to let students personalize their own set of puzzles!

CVC Word Memory Game: The classic game of memory using CVC words! 3 different versions provide several ways to play the game: match word to word, word to picture, word and picture to word and picture, or any combination of the three! Mix and match to increase the difficulty of the game. Includes 85 different CVC words covering short a, short e, short i, short o, and short u. Cards can be separated into individual games for each word family. Print cards on cardstock and/or laminate for durability.

CVC Vocabulary Word Wall Cards: Learn CVC words with these fun vocabulary/word wall cards! Comes with cards for 85 different short a, e, i, o, and uwords and featuring a fun, colorful picture for each word. These are perfect for centers, flash cards, vocabulary word walls and more! Low prep...just print, cut, and laminate. Also includes a write and wipe version of the cards so you can laminate them and use them in writing centers!

All sets included in this bundle use some combination of the following words:

Short a - bag, bat, can, cap, cat, fan, ham, hat, jam, mad, map, nap, pad, pan, rag, tag, van

Short e - bed, beg, den, gem, hen, jet, leg, men, net, pen, pet, red, ten, vet, web, wed, wet

Short i - bib, bin, dig, dip, fin, hid, kid, lid, lip, pig, pin, pit, rib, rip, sit, wig, win

Short o - box, cob, cog, dog, fox, hop, hot, jog, log, mop, pod, pop, pot, rod, rot, sob, top

Short u - bud, bug, bun, cub, cup, cut, gum, gun, hug, hut, mud, nut, pup, rug, sub, sun, tub

Want JUST the Color by CVC Word Puzzle sets? Get them at a 20% discount in the Color by CVC Word Puzzles Endless Bundle of ALL Puzzles.

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Get every Color by CVC set in my store at a 20% discount! Plus, free updates of any new sets!

This bundle includes every Color by CVC Word puzzle set in the Three Little Homeschoolers store. These puzzles cover short a, e, i, o, and u word families. Each set includes 5 puzzles in 2 difficulty levels for a total of more than 400 puzzles.

Each color by word puzzle features 4 to 6 CVC words for a vowel family in both difficulties. I've included both a picture clue set and a word clue set. In the picture clue set, students look at the picture of the word and then find the corresponding word to color. In the word clue set, students have the CVC word to look at and find the matching word to color in the puzzle. No prep! Just print and go.

All sets included in this bundle use some combination of the following words:

Short a - bag, bat, can, cap, cat, fan, ham, hat, jam, mad, map, nap, pad, pan, rag, tag, van

Short e - bed, beg, den, gem, hen, jet, leg, men, net, pen, pet, red, ten, vet, web, wed, wet

Short i - bib, bin, dig, dip, fin, hid, kid, lid, lip, pig, pin, pit, rib, rip, sit, wig, win

Short o - box, cob, cog, dog, fox, hop, hot, jog, log, mop, pod, pop, pot, rod, rot, sob, top

Short u - bud, bug, bun, cub, cup, cut, gum, gun, hug, hut, mud, nut, pup, rug, sub, sun, tub

Want some of these units but not all of them? Build a custom bundle by choosing from any of our 40+ units and you'll still save 20% off the list price! You can choose from a 4 Unit Bundle, a 6 Unit Bundle, or a 10 Unit Bundle.

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Check out my other CVC activites:

*all of my CVC activities use the same words and images for cohesive learning*

CVC Blending Cards - 85 Words with and without pictures

CVC Word Family Rearrange Puzzles -

85 Words

CVC Word Memory Game

More coming soon...

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This HUGE bundle includes 12 different Christmas products...all of the Christmas products in my store. Bingo, vocabulary cards for a word wall, letter and word recognition and counting for math and literacy centers, tracing for young learners, puzzles, cut and paste, and more! This bundle will keep you in games and center activities for the rest of the holiday season!

Buying the products in this bundle saves you 25%!!

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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 hundred's chart mystery picture and puzzle is perfect for a winter themed activity. It would be great in a math centers for students to reinforce their knowledge of numbers. There are several ways to use this packet: 1. You can use page 3 only and have the students simply color the mystery picture. 2. You can use page 4 and pages 6-10 and have students draw the cards and then fill in the right color. 3. You can use pages 6-10 and have students put the picture together like a puzzle. 4. You can use the answer key and cut it apart to make small puzzles. This product can be found in the following bundle: Hundred's Chart Mystery Pictures Winter Bundle

This set of Christmas mystery pictures is great for students practicing addition facts. Each mystery page contains 100 math problems for students to solve to complete the picture. Many of the problems are repetitive so students can have a lot of practice with each individual math fact. Kindergarteners and first graders will have fun coloring their mystery picture!

Types of Pictures

• One Christmas tree mystery picture with sums within 5
• One Christmas tree mystery picture with sums within 10

When to Use

• Early Finishers
• Extra Practice
• Homework
• Morning Work
• Math Center

Other Addition Mystery Pictures

Campfire

Christmas Tree

Groundhog

Spring

Valentine's Day

Need a fun and practical Christmas craft or parent gift? This is a quick, easy and fun craft for your students to make to create a Christmas tree topper!

What is Included:

• One angel template

To create this angel Christmas tree topper you will need one angel template, something to color with, scissors, glue or tape, colored construction paper and a toilet paper roll.

How to Create

• Allow students to color and decorate their angel template however they wish, then let them cut out their angel.
• Trace each student's hands onto the colored construction paper and then let them cut out each handprint.
• Glue or tape the handprints to the back of the angel to create its wings.
• Glue or tape the toilet paper roll to the back of the angel.
• Place the finished angel to the top of your Christmas tree to enjoy all season.

Download the preview for step by step photographic directions.

More Crafts for Preschoolers

Spider Craft

Candy Corn Craft

Turkey Craft

Watermelon Craft

This hundred's chart mystery picture and puzzle is perfect for a Christmas or winter themed activity. It would be great in a math centers for students to reinforce their knowledge of numbers. There are several ways to use this packet: 1. You can use page 3 only and have the students simply color the mystery picture. 2. You can use page 4 and pages 6-10 and have students draw the cards and then fill in the right color. 3. You can use pages 6-10 and have students put the picture together like a puzzle. 4. You can use the answer key and cut it apart to make small puzzles.

Where is the present? This Christmas 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 the preprimer sight word list.
• Present 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 Present is a game for centers or whole group instruction where a present is hidden behind a Christmas tree. A poem is chanted where the student(s) must say the sight word they think the present is behind. Once guessed, the sight word is removed. If the present is behind the Christmas tree, then the present must be hidden again to play further. If the present is not behind the Christmas tree, then the poem is chanted again with a new sight word.

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

Place words in alphabetical order to the first letter with these Christmas alphabetical order puzzles. All of the words in this set are CVC words. These puzzles are the perfect tool to help students who are just learning to alphabetize words. The real pictures allow students a self-correcting way to place the words in alphabetical order.

What Is Included:

• 10 puzzles with 5 words

• 10 puzzles with 10 words

• 2 recording sheets

How to Use:

Students will put together either the 5 piece puzzles or the 10 piece puzzles then use the recording page to write the list of words in alphabetical order.

When to Use:

• Literacy Center
• Small Group Activity
• Morning Tubs or Baskets

This hundred's chart mystery picture and puzzle is perfect for a Christmas or winter themed activity. It would be great in a math centers for students to reinforce their knowledge of numbers. There are several ways to use this packet: 1. You can use page 3 only and have the students simply color the mystery picture. 2. You can use page 4 and pages 6-10 and have students draw the cards and then fill in the right color. 3. You can use pages 6-10 and have students put the picture together like a puzzle. 4. You can use the answer key and cut it apart to make small puzzles. This product can be found in the following bundle: Hundred's Chart Mystery Pictures Winter Bundle

This hundred's chart mystery picture and puzzle is perfect for a winter or polar animal themed activity. It would be great in a math centers for students to reinforce their knowledge of numbers. There are several ways to use this packet: 1. You can use page 3 only and have the students simply color the mystery picture. 2. You can use page 4 and pages 6-10 and have students draw the cards and then fill in the right color. 3. You can use pages 6-10 and have students put the picture together like a puzzle. 4. You can use the answer key and cut it apart to make small puzzles. This product can be found in the following bundle: Hundred's Chart Mystery Pictures Winter Bundle

Have students practice adding sums up to 20 with this Christmas themed addition center. Students will draw an addition card and build the Christmas tree to match the addition card. Students can freely build the trees or use the mats provided. There is a recording page for students to show the addition problems they built. Students can also randomly build trees and figure out the addition problem they have created. Also included in this packet are 4 Christmas tree themed worksheets.

The center cards are available in color and in black and white.