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Learn more about me. Skip to main content Skip to primary sidebar Want exclusive freebies for grades ? Here are my top three favorite games. Silly Sock Exchange with a Twist Big kids love silly socks, so having a silly sock exchange is always a favorite. Musical Stockings This Christmas game is another idea suggested by another teacher in my Facebook group for Upper Elementary Educators. Christmas Mystery Bags Christmas mystery bags are always a hit with my students. White Elephant My son did this last year when he was in 5th grade.
Christmas Charades Playing charades in the classroom is so fun and may be a new experience for many of your students. Want More Christmas Resources and Activities? Share the Knowledge! Facebook Twitter Pinterest Print Email. Free Holiday and Seasonal Math Puzzles! Leave a Comment Cancel reply Your email address will not be published. Home Welcome to EF. Programs See everything we do. Offices Find an office near you. About EF Who we are.
Careers Join the team. Ideas, tips, and tools for language teachers around the world. Back Topics. Grammar tips Teaching tips Life as a teacher. Santa Says A play on Simon Says, this activity targets verbs and action words: jump, run on the spot, touch your nose, hop, do a twirl, crouch down, etc. Find someone who Create a grid with a number of Christmas-related statements. Word find Students work in teams to find as many words as they can, hidden within Christmas words.
Try: Christmas: air, has, ham, its, mat, miss, it, is, rim, cat, car, hats, cash, star Roast turkey : you, yes, use, rye, out, our, your, tusk, user, tyre, task, sure, soya, sour, take, trek Candy cane : dye, any, end, can, den, and, acne, dance, canned Use an online word unscrambler tool to create a list of possible words, and set a time limit for students to work within. Next, distribute the lyrics and teach new vocabulary. Prepare a cloze exercise; choosing to remove all nouns, prepositions, adjectives or other part of speech.
Create flashcards with reindeer names. Eight of these names are taken more or less directly from Clement C. The children can select the name of a reindeer for themselves. One person is Santa. Santa stands in the middle of the play area facing the reindeer. All reindeer by that name gallop to the other end of the play area. Santa tries to tag them. All players tagged stay in the middle to help Santa. Players sit in a circle. The next player repeats the first object and adds an object beginning with B continue the game through the alphabet.
Materials: Poster board, crayons, paint or markers, large marshmallows, plastic wrap, tape for tossing line. Glue or staple the poster board to a piece of cardboard and cut 4 round circle holes of various sizes in the tree. To make the snowballs, wrap marshmallows in plastic wrap and tie or tape it to hold it together. Prop the tree up and mark a line on the floor at the desired distance from the tree. Younger players may need a closer line.
Keep score by counting the snowballs successfully tossed through a hole or by assigning a point value to each hole. The smaller the hole, the more points earned. For a party-a prize could be awarded to all who participate!
Example: Sam, am, stir, mass, mist, rat, ram, tar, car, cat, this, his, mat, at, as, sit, etc. Depending on what is being guessed—you can award prizes or the jar itself! In case of a tie—have two prizes—or enough in the jar for two. The winning child can also open the jar and share with the group! I like that one the best! Hide a Christmas or Holiday of your choice item. Have a child to try to find the item. When they get close to the item they are getting hotter.
When they get farther away from the item they are cold. The farther they get away the colder they get. The closer they get the hotter they get….
Version 1: Show the items in the box to the children. Remove one or more items out of the box without children seeing you. Have the children guess what items are missing. Version 2: For older children —put items on large tray or cookie sheet. Remove cover for seconds and then remove tray from room. Most correct answers wins! House, mouse, window, etc. Each item can have one or more playing with the same word-such as there can be two sleighs, etc. When the reader mentions Santa or Santa Claus.
The one left out. Supplies: Black board and chalk or Dry Erase board and markers. Slips of paper with a different Christmas song written on each one. A Christmas themed container or a stocking Timer. Divide the group into teams. The player up draws a slip of paper from the stocking, reads it silently and hands to facilitator. Click here for the deets. My kids go to public school, so I usually need to keep things winter-themed versus Christmas themed.
Snowman Tissue Box Bowling. Snow Shooters. Snowball Toss. DIY Snowball Fight. Hungry Snowman. Launching Snowmen. Stacking Snowmen. Sight Word Snowball Fight. Click here for the full tutorial for this fun game. Click here for details. See if you can incorporate it into your next classroom, church or family gathering.
Full instructions are here. This is one of those games that you will create once and then pull out for every classroom party ever. Click here for the full instructions.
While these are not necessarily specific to Christmas, you could easily modify them to make them more festive for the season.
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