Christmas worksheets for preschool can bring a little festive fun to the skills children are already practicing. I created this packet with a mix of tracing, coloring, counting, matching, and cut and paste activities so you can choose pages that suit your learners.
Whether you are planning a Christmas theme at home or looking for activities for your preschool or Pre-K group, you can print a few pages at a time and use them alongside stories, play, and conversation. Below, you’ll find a free sample download, a closer look at the activities, and simple tips for using them.
Download Your Free Christmas Worksheet Sample
Would you like to try a few pages first? The free sample includes pre-writing paths, uppercase and lowercase alphabet ornaments, beginning sounds, sight word matching, ordering trees by size, shape matching, number ornaments, and counting Christmas lights. It also includes preview pages from the Christmas reader.
The free download is a selection from the complete packet. Keep reading to explore the activities and see which ones would work well for your children.
What’s Included in the Complete Packet?
The complete Christmas Preschool Worksheets and Activities packet contains 23 activity types across 82 pages. These include:
- Fine motor activities, tracing paths, and cutting practice
- Name recognition, alphabet tracing, beginning sounds, and syllables
- Sight word matching, counting words, and a Christmas reader with comprehension activities
- Number tracing, counting, graphing, shapes, and patterns
- Sequencing, comparing sizes, spotting differences, and positional language
- A Christmas scavenger hunt and a five senses drawing page
The worksheets are provided in black and white for children to complete and color. The Christmas reader includes both color and black and white versions.
For most activities, you’ll need printed pages, pencils, crayons, scissors, and glue. Glitter glue and other craft materials are optional extras for decorating. Choose a few suitable pages rather than working through the whole packet in order.
Christmas Tracing and Fine Motor Activities
Pre-Writing Practice
The pre-writing page includes different paths for children to follow, including corners, curves, zigzags, waves, and loops. Children can explore how their hand moves along each path before trying to trace it with a pencil.
Tip: Begin by following a path with a finger. You can also cover the other rows and work on one pattern at a time.
Trace, Color, and Decorate a Christmas Tree
The Christmas tree tracing page gives children a large outline to follow and plenty of space to color. Add a yellow star and a few colorful ornaments for a simple finished tree.
For an optional craft extension, children can decorate the same page with glitter glue or other craft supplies. This is a lovely way to revisit the activity with different materials.
Christmas Mazes and Cutting Practice
The packet includes Christmas tree and present mazes. Invite children to explore a route with a finger before drawing their way through the maze. The glitter trail in the example is an optional decorating idea; a pencil or crayon works too.
Children can also practice cutting around Christmas lights in different shapes. Talk about the shapes as you work, then arrange the finished lights into a paper display or garland.
Name, Alphabet, and Beginning Sound Activities
Letters in My Name
Children look for the letters in their name on the Christmas tree and color the matching ornaments and star. The example shows the letters in Lavinia’s name.
Tip: Write the child’s name on a separate card so they can compare one letter at a time. Talk about uppercase and lowercase forms when they look different.
Alphabet Ornament Tracing
The alphabet ornaments provide uppercase and lowercase letter formation practice. Children follow the tracing guides, color the ornaments, and cut them out if they are ready.
You can start with the letters in a child’s name or choose a few letters they already recognize. The finished ornaments can also be used to find matching uppercase and lowercase letters.
Beginning Sounds Match
In this cut and paste activity, children match picture presents to the sack showing the correct beginning letter. The example uses A and B, with pictures of an ant, apple, bear, and bell.
Tip: Name every picture together first. Then say the word again, listening carefully to its first sound before choosing where it belongs.
Christmas Syllables
Children say the names of Christmas pictures, clap the syllables, and color the bell showing the correct number. Familiar words such as bells, wreath, candle, and stocking provide a starting point for listening to the parts of spoken words.
Try saying and clapping each word together before asking children to mark an answer.
Christmas Reading and Word Activities
Christmas Tree Sight Word Match
The sight word trees invite children to color, trace, and match words. Choose words you have already introduced, and read them aloud together before matching the pieces.
This is an activity you can save for children who are ready for word work. Other learners can continue practicing names, letters, and beginning sounds.
How Many Words?
The How Many Words? page helps children notice that a sentence contains separate words. Read each sentence aloud and point to one printed word at a time, then count the words together and color the matching number.
Tip: Explain that this activity counts whole words. Syllable clapping is a different listening activity, even when a word has more than one part.
A Christmas Reader to Share
The little Christmas reader introduces familiar activities such as singing carols, decorating the tree, baking, and giving gifts. Read it together, talk about the pictures, and invite children to share their own experiences.
The complete packet includes color and black and white versions, along with comprehension activities. Children can color their own booklet, while an adult helps with cutting and assembly.
Tip: During shared reading, model where to begin and how to follow the print from left to right. Pause to talk about what is happening in the pictures.
Christmas Counting and Math Worksheets
Number Ornament Tracing
The number ornaments give children practice following numeral formation guides. After tracing, invite them to place a matching number of counters beside an ornament or arrange a few finished ornaments in number order.
How Many Christmas Lights?
Children count the lights on each tree and match the correct number beneath it. The complete packet includes counting pages covering numbers from 0 to 20, so you can select a suitable range.
Tip: Start with the 0–5 page if children are still learning to count small groups. Touch each light once while counting, and talk about the tree with no lights to introduce zero.
Count and Graph
The Christmas ornaments provide a simple introduction to collecting and showing information. Children count each kind of ornament and color the corresponding number of boxes in the graph.
Once the graph is complete, compare the columns. Which ornament appears most often? Which appears only once? Are any groups the same size?
Christmas Cut and Paste Activities
Put the Pictures in Order
The sequencing activities show decorating a Christmas tree and going sledding. Children look at the pictures, talk about what happens first, next, and last, then arrange and paste them in order.
Tip: Ask children to explain their sequence before gluing. Describing the pictures is just as useful as placing them correctly.
Compare Sizes and Match Shapes
In Order by Size, children arrange Christmas trees from shortest to tallest. Line up the bottoms of the pieces to make the comparison easier to see.
The Shape Match pages ask children to match candy pictures to gifts with the same shape. Encourage them to look at the outline of each shape, even when the colors and patterns are different.
Complete the Christmas Patterns
The pattern page uses alternating Christmas ornaments. Children identify the repeating pair, then choose the piece that continues each AB pattern.
Tip: Say a pattern aloud together, such as “bell, ornament, bell, ornament.” You could also build an alternating pattern with two colors of blocks before trying the page.
Observation and Positional Language
Find the Picture That Is Different
The Different page encourages children to look closely at details. Each row has one picture that differs from the others. Invite children to explain what they noticed before circling it.
Which Picture Doesn’t Belong?
The Doesn’t Belong page asks children to think about how pictures can be grouped. Talk about what the other pictures have in common and why one might belong in a different group.
Listen to the child’s explanation. Their reasoning can tell you more than the circled answer alone.
Christmas Prepositions
The prepositions page explores on, in, in front of, and under. Children identify and color the object in the position shown, such as the tree on the car or the chimney under Santa.
Tip: Practice with a toy and a box first. Place the toy in the box, on the box, and in front of the box, then connect those positions to the pictures.
Christmas Activities Beyond the Worksheet
Christmas Scavenger Hunt
Use the scavenger hunt to look for familiar Christmas items, including a tree, candy cane, wreath, bells, star, and stocking. Children color a smiley face when they find each item.
Before starting, check which items are available in your space. You can also use pictures or look through a Christmas book together.
My Five Senses at Christmas
The five senses page invites children to draw things they can see, hear, smell, taste, and touch during Christmas. Begin with a conversation about familiar experiences, then let children choose what to draw.
An adult can write a short label beside each picture if the child would like help recording their ideas.
Simple Ways to Use the Christmas Worksheets
You can use selected pages for a short small group activity, focused practice at home, or a familiar task after you have modeled the steps. Match the activity to what children are ready to practice.
For children needing more support, offer fewer choices, smaller counting sets, or pieces that have already been cut apart. Children ready for more can explain their thinking, compare quantities, or retell a sequence in their own words.
Keep crayons and basic supplies nearby, and leave time for conversation. A single page can lead to counting real objects, building a pattern, or sharing a Christmas story.
Get the Complete Christmas Preschool Packet
If you would like more activities to choose from, the complete packet includes 23 activity types across 82 pages of Christmas literacy, math, and fine motor practice. Print the pages you need for your learners and revisit familiar activities throughout the season.
Happy Teaching! 😊
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Very creative 👍