20+ FREE Christmas Printables for Preschoolers
With the holiday season just around the corner, preschoolers are brimming with excitement! One way to harness this energy into constructive learning is by incorporating free Christmas printables into your lineup of Christmas preschool activities. These learning printables not only foster a holiday spirit but also ensure that learning doesn’t take a backseat amidst the festive cheer.
Offering a variety of Christmas-themed tasks, these printables will keep your little ones fascinated, transforming them into eager learners. Having these Christmas preschool activities at your disposal can make the holiday season flow more smoothly, whether you’re in a classroom setting or seeking some festive fun at home during the holidays.
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Preschool Christmas Printables
Kids get anxious and antsy during December in anticipation of the upcoming holiday. Use these free printable Christmas activities for the classroom to keep kids busy and on-track during December.
They are the perfect addition to your Christmas-themed centers or as engaging activities to keep children interested in school before the Christmas holiday starts!
With super cute Christmas worksheets for preschool, coloring pages, math Christmas activities, Christmas word work with uppercase and lowercase letters and more, you will find many uses for these!
Parents can also use these activities at home during the break to keep kids occupied and prevent them from trying to find any hidden presents in the house! (That’s not just at my house, right?)
Pick all your favorite activities and add them to your Christmas preschool lesson plans this holiday season.
For additional festive hands-on alphabet and number activities, check out these bundles in my store!
Christmas Books for Preschoolers
These are some of our favorite preschool Christmas books for circle time during the holiday season. Follow along with our favorite characters like Pete the Cat and Little Blue Truck as they go on Christmas adventures!
- Wright, Maureen (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 34 Pages – 10/08/2013 (Publication Date) – Two Lions (Publisher)
- Book about a little reindeer with BIG dreams
- Encourages confidence, perseverance, self-esteem
- Charming illustrations with a fun, encouraging story
- Used Book in Good Condition
- Hardcover Book
- Wilson, Karma (Author)
- Story about a little blue truck spreading holiday cheer
- Encourages reading skills, counting, giving, holiday cheer
- Count the trees from one to five and back again
- DK (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 18 Pages – 09/06/2022 (Publication Date) – DK Children (Publisher)
- ISBN13:9780439567039
- Format:Paperback Book
- Ages:4 – 8
- Tiger Tales (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 26 Pages – 09/05/2017 (Publication Date) – Tiger Tales (Publisher)
- Hardcover Book
- Wallace, Adam (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- Hardcover Book
- Walstead, Alice (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- Hardcover Book
- Willems, Mo (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
Christmas Toys for the Preschool Classsroom
These Christmas learning toys and manipulatives are a great way to bring fun and joy to the classroom! From puzzles to art, building with Lego and more, preschoolers love playing and learning in a hands-on way.
- Developmentally Engaging: For kids ages 4 and up this larger than life floor puzzle will tune in…
- Premium Quality: Crafted with child-safe materials, this preschool puzzle ensures durability for…
- Slice, pretend to bake, and decorate wooden holiday cookies
- Includes a tube of 12 sliceable wooden cookies with 12 decorative toppings, an oven mitt, wooden…
- This festively decorated LEGO DUPLO Gingerbread Christmas House toy for toddlers comes with Santa…
- Toddlers can build the Christmas tree, put the presents underneath and then serve treats using the…
- 【Value Christmas Toys Set】You will get 4 pack wooden christmas puzzles with classic christmas…
- 【Premium Quality and Safety】Safety is the unremitting pursuit of our wooden puzzles for toddlers…
- & Mummy, D@ddy (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
Free Christmas Printables Activities for Preschool
My goal is to make life easier for teachers, parents and caregivers. Especially during the busy hustle-bustle of the holiday season! I have collected some of my very favorite Christmas printables for preschoolers and kindergarteners. They are all here in one place for you to reference anytime you need. Enjoy!
May your holidays be filled with learning, peace, and JOY!
20+ Free Christmas Printables for Preschoolers
Christmas is in the air and preschool learning needs to stay in full swing.
Having some funtastic Christmas printables at the ready will make your holiday season go much more smoothly.
After all, your little elves are busy gearing up for Christmas and will need some easy activities to keep them engaged and learning.
Jump on in for quick and easy learning fun and check one thing off your holiday season to-do list!
Gingerbread Man Theme Old Maid Card Game
This Gingerbread man version of Old Maid is a perfect game to practice letter recognition. It's full of adorable gingerbread boys and girls and uppercase and lowercase letters.
Your preschoolers will adore this Gingerbread Man Old Maid Game.
The best part? Instead of worrying about getting the old maid card, the goal is to make all your matches so that you get the "runaway gingerbread man" card. Isn't that so fun?
Spirit of Giving Activity
It is the season of giving! It was my goal to create a literacy activity for my preschoolers that would shift the focus from getting gifts to receiving gifts.
I created a free printable to use for a phonological awareness activity using a predictable chart.
It starts with "I Can Give" and focuses on important people in the children's lives. 'Tis the season to be giving!
Christmas Tree Letter Train
A choo choo train is synonymous with Christmas time.
Have your preschoolers hop aboard this Christmas Tree Present Letter Train this holiday season.
This free printable offers practice in a variety of literacy skills including letter recognition, letter sounds, ABC order, name spelling, and more!
There are so many uses for this adorable Christmas train! Choo choo!
Blackout Game Christmas Printable for Preschoolers
Christmas Blackout or Bingo is always a hit at classroom holiday parties!
This adorable printable with several game boards and matching cards is the perfect choice for your next party.
The best part is that it's not just fun, it also allows preschoolers to practice visual discrimination skills.
To make it even more festive, use some Christmas-themed mini erasers as markers for the game.
Gingerbread Alphabet Activities
It wouldn't be December in preschool without a gingerbread theme as part of your lesson plans.
Check out these free printables that are loaded with gingerbread alphabet games for preschoolers.
With adorable gingerbread people and houses, your preschoolers will just eat up these festive gingerbread literacy games this holiday season!
Gingerbread Man Mixed Skills Practice Printable
During this busy, bustling time of year, it is a rare treasure when we find one activity that can offer hours of learning and fun.
Look no further, you have found it!
This free gingerbread man printable has an adorable poem as well as the cutest gingerbread boys and girls.
It is such a fun way to teach number identification, number sense, counting, number order and more!
Run, run as fast you can...to this awesome activity and book all in one!
Christmas Writing Center- Making Cards
This Christmas Writing Center for Preschoolers will make them feel like big kids! Preschoolers get the chance to make Christmas cards in this festive writing activity.
It's as simple as supplying some blank Christmas cards for the kids to color and add words, letters, etc. to.
Supply plenty of markers or crayons and you are ready to go!
Kids will feel all grown up as they experience some "real-world writing".
Festive Christmas Prewriting Cards
These adorably festive prewriting tracing cards will delight all of your little elves. The free printable includes many darling Christmas-themed tracing cards.
The cards offer a variety of lines and shapes to be traced. I recommend laminating them for repeated use.
These adorable Christmas tracing mats are excellent for fine motor development and prewriting skills practice.
Christmas Name Puzzle
This Christmas Name Puzzle is almost as precious as having Santa's reindeer here in person. Almost. It includes Santa's sleigh where you can write the child's name.
There are also blank reindeer just waiting for you to personalize them with letters. Once they are set up, your preschooler can build their name on the reindeer that are ready to pull Santa's sleigh.
This might just be the cutest name recognition activity we have ever laid our doe eyes on!
Gingerbread House Alphabet Matching Printable
Check out this adorable Gingerbread House Alphabet Matching Activity. It all comes from free printables and comes with fantastic letter recognition and letter matching practice.
With a few simple steps, you can put together the paper (or cardstock) gingerbread house. And, your preschoolers are all set to learn!
Christmas Alphabet Scavenger Hunt Pack for Preschoolers
These Christmas Alphabet Scavenger Hunt printables are an excellent way for preschoolers to practice letter identification and letter formation.
There are different types of printables so you can best meet the individual needs of your preschoolers.
You will love having some great Christmas letter practice ready to go during the busy holiday season!
Christmas Word Scramble
This Christmas Word Scramble has 15 festive words that need to be unscrambled.
This activity is geared towards kindergarten and up. However, you could model how it works with Pre-K kids and assist them as they guess what the words might be.
Then, model how to unscramble them. Pre-K kiddos can practice letter recognition and sounds as they work through this with a grown-up.
Gingerbread 10 Frame Counting Mats
Ten-frame counting mats are a preschool staple. These gingerbread-themed counting mats are perfect for your preschool Christmas theme.
They are not only adorable, but they also help with a wide variety of math skills practice. These counting mats help teach number sense, one-to-one correspondence, counting, subitizing, composing to make 10, and more!
Add some Christmas-themed mini manipulatives and your preschoolers will spend lots of time working with these festive ten frames.
Toddler Christmas Shape Matching Printables
Shapes are all around us and an important part of math in the early childhood years. Use these free Christmas Shape Matching Printables for shape practice for your toddlers and preschoolers.
The children will simply match shapes on ornaments to corresponding shapes on Christmas trees. They will also benefit by practicing visual discrimination and problem solving skills with this easy Christmas activity.
Christmas I Spy Printables
I spy, with my little eye....a Christmas tree! These free I Spy Christmas Printables offer a nice quiet sit-down activity during this busy and not-so-quiet time of year.
Your preschoolers will get work their visual discrimination, attention to detail, logical thinking, and problem-solving skills as they "spy" correct Christmas trees. T
his is a type of "look and find" activity, which will definitely hold their attention!
Roll and Cover Christmas Tree Math Game
Your preschoolers can roll their way into some Christmas counting fun this holiday season! This Roll and Cover Christmas Tree Game will keep your kids counting and learning. Y
You can use some mini Christmas erasers as ornaments, and the kids will delight in "decorating" the tree as they cover up what they role. The kids will have so much fun, they just might not want to stop!
Christmas Counting Memory Game
This Christmas Counting Memory Game is memory with a counting twist!
Your preschoolers will collect pairs by matching a Christmas tree with a numeral to a Christmas tree with the corresponding number of ornaments.
Your preschoolers will get to practice number recognition, counting from 1-10, and memory skills with this fun memory game.
Roll-a-Reindeer Printable Game
Add this Roll-a-Reindeer Game to your holiday class party this year! The premise is quite simple, but fun.
A child will partner up and take turns rolling a die. Each child will follow the number code and build their reindeer according to what they roll.
The best part? They can build an adorable reindeer to take home and hang up. Christmas game meets Christmas craft.
Christmas Dot Painting
During the holiday season, I love having easy, ready-to-go activities for my preschoolers.
For this particular activity, all you need are these eight free Christmas Dot Painting Printables and some do-a-dot markers. Easey-peasey!
Your preschoolers will be proud of their creations and can hang them at home as a Christmas decoration!
3D Christmas Coloring
If you are looking for another ready-to-go fun craft, look no further! These 3D Christmas Coloring Pages will delight your preschoolers.
All it takes is the printables and some markers and crayons.
And, the magical part is at the end when you help your preschoolers turn their creations into 3D figures!
Christmas Scissor Cutting Practice Sheets
Did you know that scissor-practice is a very important part of early development? Here's a cute activity to get some good scissor practice in this holiday season.
Your preschoolers will get to cut, cut, cut their way on different patterns and follow them like a maze. They will delight in finding the end of the maze, while cutting all the way along these Christmas Scissor Cutting Practice Sheets
Christmas Tracing Activities for Fine Motor Practice
Tracing activities offer wonderful prewriting practice for preschoolers. These free Christmas Tracing Printables are festive and have fun patterns for your preschoolers to follow.
Tracing different patterns is great for fine motor development as well as strengthening little hands and fingers.
You can laminate these so they can be used over and over again with dry erase markers.
Christmas Tracing Printables
These adorable Christmas Tracing Printables double as both tracing and cutting strips. They offer scissor practice and prewriting practice.
You can laminate them for tracing cards for durability and for repeated use.
These are perfect for use anytime during the busy holiday season!
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I’m Sarah, an educator turned stay-at-home-mama of five! I’m the owner and creator of Stay At Home Educator, a website about intentional teaching and purposeful learning in the early childhood years. I’ve taught a range of levels, from preschool to college and a little bit of everything in between. Right now my focus is teaching my children and running a preschool from my home. Credentials include: Bachelors in Art, Masters in Curriculum and Instruction.
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