Less than $5 Middle School Christmas, Chanukah, & Kwanzaa Activities

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Festive way to make connections:

Students read or watch A Christmas Carol and How the Grinch Stole Christmas, my students read A Christmas Carol and watched How the Grinch Stole Christmas, for an engaging activity before the holiday. A Christmas Carol was a challenge for the students, so watching How the Grinch Stole Christmas was a fun distraction.

Students will take notes on the provided worksheets to help keep track of information and make connections in a visual format. Notetaking helps keep students engaged in both stories. This also helps the students look at well know material in a new way.

This active and engaging resource gets students moving and discussing. Students will make paper snowballs out of the provided cards. They will then use these for a snowball fight. When time is up, students will find a partner, uncrumple the paper, and have a discussion.

Students can reach connections and have discussions with the information they gather.

What's included:

• A Christmas Carol and How the Grinch Stole Christmas worksheets for notes
• Topics include: character, setting, theme, conflict, language, plot, and resolution.
• Answer keys for the students.
• A Christmas Carol and How the Grinch Stole Christmas cards for creating paper snowballs.

Why this resource is helpful:

• Print and go worksheets are easy for teachers.
• Seasonal work which helps practice essential language skills.
• Answer key provided.
• Directions included.
• Students enjoy an indoor snowball fight.
• The nature of the activity causes random topics for discussion each round.

This opinion writing is a perfect activity for your holiday writing. This is great around Christmas time, but can also be used for any holiday tradition. The students will write about their favorite tradition and why it is their favorite. This gives students practice with stating their opinion and giving 3 reasons why they believe that way. There are 2 graphic organizers included allowing for differentiation for students to write a shorter or longer paper. This activity is a fun way for students to share a little about their holidays and what they enjoy.

What's included?

Included in this download is 2 different graphic organizer, 4 different papers to write their paragraph(s) on, and a page where they have the option to illustrate their favorite tradition.

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⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐Michelle says, "My second grade students loved using this resource as part of our opinion writing unit!"

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This is a free social skills lesson focused on gift exchange. My Easy Social Skills Holiday lessons to explore and discuss each area to the best of your student’s ability. Students in your class will gain  a basic understanding of each other's likes and dislikes, as well as practicality in helping them learn how to thoughtfully choose gifts that reflect consideration, kindness and practicality. This Social Skills lesson is also perfect for Theory of mind and/ or Social problem solving.

Add a touch of holiday excitement to your classroom with this activity- Christmas Mystery Game! Ideal for use in homeroom, classroom parties, or as a fun brain-boosting break, this game will have students working together to solve clues and uncover the mystery.

Ready-to-Use Ready-to-Print / Printable Black and White Worksheet

What’s Included:

• Christmas Mystery PDF: A festive logic puzzle game that challenges students to think critically and collaborate to solve the mystery.
• Answer Key

Bring holiday magic to your classroom with this Christmas Mystery Game! Download now and watch your students immerse themselves in this joyful, brain-teasing activity!

Can be used in any grade level and any subject, especially math for cryptography lesson, encrypting, decrypting messages.

OTHER CHRISTMAS CLASSROOM GAMES:

• Math Escape Room
• It's a Match (like Spot It / Dobble)
• Christmas Mystery: Crack the Code Worksheet
• Memory Game
• This or That
• OOPS Taboo-Like Game

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Looking for a fun, engaging, and no-prep interactive digital resource to keep your students excited and connected before winter break? This Winter Break Community Building Interactive Slides resource is perfect for grades 5-8! Packed with 35 creative and festive activities, it promotes collaboration, critical thinking, and laughter in the classroom.

Key Features:

• Hear Me Out Challenges: Students debate their favorite holiday snacks, movies, and traditions.
• One Must Go: Fun dilemmas challenge students to make tough decisions about winter activities and treats.
• Mad Libs & Creative Writing: From silly holiday stories to cringe-worthy slang, students unleash their imagination.
• Reflective Writing Prompts: Encourage introspection with activities like bucket lists and favorite winter memories.
• Emoji Guessing Games: Decode holiday-themed phrases for a mix of fun and learning.
• Sleigh or Ohio? Students vote on whether winter traditions are "sleigh-worthy" or "cringe."

Suggested Uses:

• Holiday-themed Bell Ringers: Start your day with quick, interactive slides.
• Community Building Activities: Foster a positive, engaging classroom environment.
• Sub Plans: Easy-to-use, no-prep slides perfect for substitute teachers.
• Independent or Partner Work: Adaptable for individual or collaborative use.

Why Teachers Love It:

• Completely no-prep—just assign and go!
• Builds classroom community while keeping students engaged.
• Flexible and perfect for holiday fun during the busy lead-up to winter break.
• Encourages creativity, reflection, and discussion in a lighthearted way.

Make this winter season unforgettable for your students with this fun and interactive resource. Your classroom will love the mix of creativity and festive vibes!

Help Santa Save Christmas! This engaging math activity transforms number crunching into a festive adventure. Students will step to save Santa using their addition, subtraction, and multiplication skills to manage his Christmas shopping budget.

What's Included:

• Whole Number Challenges: Practice 2-digit and 3-digit addition and multiplication while helping Santa purchase gifts.
• Decimal Dilemmas: Apply decimal multiplication and addition to real-world shopping scenarios.
• Answer Key: Provide support and guidance for independent learning.

This resource blends math practice with holiday fun, making learning enjoyable and meaningful.

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A great seasonal Christmas Holiday activity to reinforce map skills!

This fun activity is great for your students the week before Christmas break! We all know how things get crazy! Not only will they have fun working together or individually to solve the puzzle, but they will also have the opportunity to practice reading the latitude and longitude coordinate grid system (absolute location). Each moment is a teaching moment, and this will allow reinforcement of their map reading skills. They will use the absolute locations that are provided on the key and identify the points on the coordinate grid, drawing one line from one point to another. End the end, they have a photo to color and decorate!

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Christmas BINGO Class Game : Just print and ready to go for 30 Students!

Kit includes :
* 30 different BINGO Cards
* 5 Caller Sheets
* Instructions

INSTRUCTIONS: Print and go!
Print all five Calling Cards for the BINGO caller. Each piece may be cut apart and tossed into a hat, or remain on the sheet for the caller to pick out the letters.

Print 30 BINGO cards. Each card should be at least slightly different, as they were hand-scrambled digitally. (You may still be likely to have more than one BINGO at a time.)

Use anything you have on-hand to cover the BINGO cards : peppermints, buttons, erasers, small candy pieces, pennies, etc.

Great for indoor recess or substitute plans!

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Bring history to life this holiday season with The History Elf Project, a fun and engaging classroom project perfect for any social studies unit! This fun, creative activity invites students to step into the shoes (and hats!) of famous historical figures, becoming Santa’s special “History Elf” to uncover the achievements, character traits, and lasting legacies of iconic people from the past. Perfect for the Christmas holiday season, this project combines research, creativity, and writing in a memorable way that makes history engaging for students!

What’s Included:

• History Elf Outline Design Page – Students design their elf to look like their chosen historical figure, adding details to reflect the figure’s life and accomplishments.
• The History Elf’s Holiday Report – In this writing activity, students pen a letter to Santa about their historical figure’s impact and decide if they belong on the “Nice” or “Naughty” list based on what they’ve learned.
• History Elf’s Merry Mischief – Students write a creative story where their elf causes a bit of historical mischief! This optional extension activity lets students imagine their elf changing history in a fun and playful way.
• History Elf - Who Am I? Sheet – This biography sheet helps students organize and summarize their research on their historical figure, covering key achievements, personality traits, and interesting facts.
• Instructions and Grading Rubric – Clear step-by-step instructions for teachers and students, and a comprehensive rubric to guide assessment across creativity, historical accuracy, effort, and more.
• Example Projects - Examples included to give you a better understanding of the direction and design of the project!

Key Features:

• Engaging and Interactive: Blends holiday fun with historical learning to keep students excited about history.
• Perfect for Display: Creates a colorful and festive classroom showcase of “History Elves” with their biographies and stories.
• Flexible Usage: Use it as a stand-alone project, Christmas-themed assignment, or winter break activity!

Encourage your students to explore the past in a fun, memorable way with The History Elf Project! This unique activity is sure to become a holiday favorite in your classroom.

Make your Christmas Holiday Party Games fun with this engaging, hands-on Christmas Bingo Card Game! This includes 1 low-prep Christmas Bingo Card game template perfect for having fun with Christmas holiday cheer. Quick and easy setup plus clear student directions make this activity perfect for centers or substitute days, too!

Lead your students in a fun game of Christmas holiday bingo by cutting out the calling cards and printing out a bingo card for each person. Students will love playing this Christmas Bingo card game together by using their problem solving skills through this fun activity, and won't even realize how much they're having fun! Use it after read a story about Christmas/holiday or sing a song about Christmas.

Here's what you'll get:

• Christmas Bingo Calling Cards

• 25 Christmas Bingo cards

• easy to follow directions

Your students will have fun playing Christmas holiday Bingo using a variety of common classroom materials. They'll be engaged and having a great time together!

This activity uses materials readily available in most classrooms and homes and includes a printable template to create the whole activity.

Prep is quick and easy... Just print the calling cards page, bingo card pages, cut out the calling cards, find your bingo chips, and you're ready for a fun and engaging class!
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Editable Name Coloring Christmas Stocking (PPTX)

Get ready for some festive fun with our Editable Name Mindfulness Coloring Christmas Stocking! This exciting coloring page features a stocking that can be edited to include your students' names. It's a great way to engage your students in a creative activity while personalizing their coloring experience.

This product is perfect for holiday crafts, classroom activities, or fun at-home projects, offering a personalized touch to Christmas celebrations.

Keep your students busy and engaged with this fun Christmas activity booklet! Many of the activities allow students to use their imaginations and have open ended tasks that will keep them busy and engaged.

Tailored towards the middle primary years, this 15 page booklet has activities such as

- Writing poems

- Creating a map

- Mindful colouring

- A Christmas research project

- A writing challenge

And much more!

Enhance your students' understanding of Kwanzaa with this engaging Kwanzaa Nonfiction Reading Comprehension Passage and Questions resource! Perfect for the classroom, this product provides a detailed nonfiction passage that introduces the history, principles, and traditions of Kwanzaa.

Accompanied by six thought-provoking questions, this resource encourages meaningful discussions and helps students develop critical thinking skills.

Whether used for group activities, classroom discussions, or individual assessments, this two-page PDF is designed to captivate young learners while meeting educational standards.

Key Features:

• 1-page nonfiction reading passage about Kwanzaa
• 6 comprehension questions to assess understanding
• Ideal for Grades K-2, suitable for other elementary levels
• 8.5 x 11-inch format for easy printing and use
• Perfect for December and cultural heritage lessons

This versatile resource is excellent for celebrating Kwanzaa while also incorporating themes of diversity and cultural awareness. Download now to provide your students with a meaningful and educational learning experience!

Teach Lunar New Year vocabulary with this fun and engaging product! It includes 2 self-checking mystery picture puzzles and 2 word sudokus. NO PREP, just print and go! It's perfect for younger EFL/ESL students (4th - 6th grade) but can be also used for native English classes at grade levels 1st - 3rd.

WHAT’S INCLUDED:

♥ 2 mystery picture tile puzzles

♥ 2 sudokus

♥ instructions

♥ teacher answer key

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CHINESE NEW YEAR VOCABULARY Flashcards Word Wall Mystery Picture Picture Sudoku

INSTRUCTIONS:

Mystery picture

♣ Print out 1 mystery picture per student.

♣ Students cut up the answer tiles and then place them on the correct question tiles to match the words with the definitions.

♣ They can glue the question tiles onto the answer tiles and color the picture too.

Chinese New Year Sudoku

♣ Print out 1 sudoku per student.

♣ Students cut off the right side of the sheet along the dotted line and cut out the missing sudoku pictures. They glue them into the sudoku grid so that all 6 words appear in each row, column and 2x3 frame.

♣ Each word must appear in each row, column and 2x3 frame only once.

♣ Check with the whole class - students have to name in English all pictures in the given row, column or 2x3 frame.

OPTIONS FOR USE:

☻Independent Work

☻Pair Work

☻Sub plan

☻Stations

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Bring the holiday spirit into your science classroom with this engaging and educational “Christmas Candy Science” lesson pack! Perfect for middle school students, these hands-on experiments use festive candies to explore key scientific concepts aligned with NGSS and Tennessee state standards.

Students will love the festive twist on classic science experiments. This is the perfect activity to do the weird days right before Winter break when students are often absent! Each experiment is designed to reinforce important scientific principles and includes clear instructions to make it easy to implement these activities in your classroom.

Included Experiments:

• Candy Cane Dissolution Experiment
• Skittles Color Diffusion
• Chocolate Melting Point
• Gummy Bear Osmosis
• Baking Soda and Vinegar Balloon Inflation

Includes:

• Teacher tips and directions for each lab
• Materials list
• Student lab worksheets and data recording sheets
• Beautiful Winter themed slides to keep yourself and student on task

NGSS Middle School:

• MS-PS1-2: Analyze and interpret data on the properties of substances before and after the substances interact to determine if a chemical reaction has occurred
• MS-PS1-4: Develop a model that predicts and describes changes in particle motion, temperature, and state of a pure substance when thermal energy is added or removed
• MS-LS1-2: Develop and use a model to describe the function of a cell as a whole and ways parts of cells contribute to the function

Tennessee State Science Standards:

• MS.PS1.4: Develop a model that predicts and describes changes in particle motion, temperature, and state of a pure substance when thermal energy is added or removed
• MS.LS1.2: Develop and use a model to describe the function of a cell as a whole and ways parts of cells contribute to the function

Fill your tree with homemade ornaments for a nostalgic Christmas! 44 ornaments to color, cut, and hang. Comes with ornaments that can be used with photos for lasting memories.

Includes:

Directions and Examples

Bear

Bell

Candles

Candy Canes

Drummer Boy

Elves

Gingerbread Man & House

Holly

Lantern

Letter

Nativity

Reindeer

Santa

Sled

Snowflakes

Snowmen

Wreaths

and much, much more...

Celebrate the magic of Christmas with our Elf Arrival and Goodbye Letter Set! This beautifully designed, gender-neutral template is perfect for boys and girls, featuring a heartwarming "I'm Back" letter and a touching "Goodbye" letter from your elf. Self-editable in Canva, it's easy to personalize for your little ones. Whether you're celebrating Christmas Eve, counting the days until Christmas, or preparing to visit a Christmas tree farm, this set is the perfect way to add a festive touch to your holiday traditions. Perfect for creating lasting Christmas memories, it’s a great addition to your Christmas carol sing-alongs or while watching A Christmas Story. Download instantly and receive a PDF with access to your customizable template. Add extra magic to your Christmas day and get your little ones excited about the arrival of Santa's elf.

We have created something special which we are very proud of. This lovingly created coloring pages also makes thoughtful winter gifts or presents for friends or family.
Suitable for toddlers, preschoolers and kids .

WHAT YOU WILL RECEIVE

• 10 winter coloring pages (PDF )

• Large 8.5'' x 11'' designs that can easily be printed on regular sized paper

• High-resolution images

• Unlimited prints

• Great for kids, boys, girls, and teens

JUST DOWNLOAD, PRINT AND GET STARTED

• This item comes as a high-resolution PDF files that you can download straight after purchasing.

• You can print as many copies as you want.

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• No physical product or printed material will be shipped.

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Roll and color activities perfect for the Holiday season. Resource comes in three different themes; Rudolph, Gingerbread, and Christmas Trees.

Great resource for early finishers, time fillers, or end of day activity. Students will get to practice number and facial expression recognition in a hands on and fun way.

How to play:

Simply give your student a dice. Have them roll. Have them color in the emotion based on the number they roll.

Vocabulary covered:

-Afraid

-Bored

-Loved

-Silly

-Proud

-Happy

-Sad

-Anxious

-Shocked

-Angry

-Excited

-Upset

-Joyful

-Surprised

-Grumpy

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