Christmas and Winter Resources

The weeks leading up to winter break are filled with excitement and anticipation, making it the perfect time to channel that energy into meaningful learning. Whether you’re celebrating Christmas, exploring winter themes, or simply looking for engaging activities to wrap up the semester, this page is your go-to hub for holiday inspiration. Below, you’ll find a curated collection of thoughtfully designed Christmas and winter resources, lesson ideas, and projects that reinforce key skills and keep students motivated through the busy holiday season.

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Christmas and Winter Classroom Ideas

Upper elementary students still love to make handmade gifts. Each of these inexpensive Christmas gifts for students carries a personal touch!

Inexpensive Christmas Gifts for Students in Upper Elementary

Free Rockefeller Christmas Tree Literacy Activities

These engaging and educational Christmas math and Christmas literacy activities will captivate your students while reinforcing important skills and standards.

Christmas Math and Literacy Ideas for Christmas in the Classroom

Using Christmas picture books in upper elementary allows your students to capture the magic, wonder, and excitement of the holiday season.

Top 10 Christmas Picture Books for Upper Elementary

Here are 9 fun upper elementary classroom activities for holidays around the world! Includes everything from pen pals and a trip to writing creative resolutions.

9 Activities to Teach Holidays Around the World

Here are my favorite upper elementary winter read alouds and related seasonal activities for the days before and after winter break.

15 Winter Read Alouds

Upper elementary holidays around the world teaching resources for literacy and math. Includes book list and educational projects.

Holidays Around the World Activities

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Holiday Gifts for Students

{EASY} Holiday Food for Bigger Kids

Christmas Time Is Here!

Winter Wonderland Reading Incentive!

Holidays Around the World

December is a MAGICAL (albeit exhausting) time to be a teacher. I love the innocence of children during this time and the ways we can leverage the season’s excitement in our classrooms. Teaching Holidays Around the World is one of those ways! Here are several ways you can teach holidays around the world in your classroom, along with a lovely book list to help you incorporate picture books about holidays around the world.