Keep kids entertained and educated during the festive period, with these free teaching resources.
If you are looking for some fun and educational resources this Christmas, we have found some FREE Christmas resources online, for teachers and parents, including lesson plans, printable worksheets, craft & activity booklets and colouring sheets. These Christmas-themed lessons and activities are great resources to make school festive and fun.
Five of our favourite places for free Christmas resources are:
- Twinkl
- Tes
- BBC Teach
- SparkleBox
- British Council
Twinkl – free trial download for teachers
Free Christmas Activities – Teaching Resources
Twinkl offers a free trial download for various creative resources as well as printable worksheets ranging from EYFS to 10+. We particularly love the colouring resources and fun activities for younger children – perfect for colder days in the classroom when the kids are winding down ahead of the Christmas school holidays.
Bonus: if your children or pupils are interested in learning languages, there are plenty of resources here for learning about Christmas in other languages, such as French, Spanish and German. Joyeux Noel!
Tes – free downloadable worksheets and activities
Tes offers a range of free and paid resources for primary and second schools, so you’ll want to have a dig through and find the ones that suit your budget (although many of the paid items are under £1!).
Some of the free resources for primary schools include:
- Christmas crafts and activities – we love this Christmas cracker colouring set
- Booklets and instructions (holly wreath, anyone?)
- Games, such as this wordsearch
They also offer some secondary school resources such as:
- quizzes
- activities
- lessons, such as this D&T plan
BBC – free activities for Primary and Secondary students
Christmas Resources and Activities
The BBC Teach website is a fantastic resource for teachers all year round (you may recall we mentioned them in our Remembrance Day resources article!) and has some excellent resources for teachers, including assembly ideas, songs and audiostories.
Bonus: it’s not just the BBC teach website, which we’ve linked above, which has school and parent resources for teaching children about Christmas – their YouTube channel is also full of great videos for visual learners. Here are a few of our favourites from their Christmas Collection playlist:
- Religious Studies – The Christian Story of the First Christmas
- History – X is for Xmas Truce
- Physics – Hunting the Northern Lights
SparkleBox- free Christmas resources
Free Christmas Primary Teaching Resources
SparkleBox offers fun and free learning resources, including role-play ideas, advent calendars, card templates and recipes. They even have printable formats for letters to Santa, helping children develop literacy and writing skills.
British Council
For children whose first language isn’t English or younger children starting to master their English vocabulary and writing skills, the British council has a number of free activities based on the Christmas and the words we use to describe it.
- Children’s activities to learn about Christmas
- Worksheet and download to learn about Christmas for older children
Do you have any other favourite places for festive learning?
We’d love for you to get in touch and tell us – we’re always looking to update our website with links to the best free resources for teachers and parents!
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