KS3 Christmas Creative Writing Activities – Prose, Poetry & Letter Writing

This festive KS3 Christmas Creative Writing Resource includes five differentiated writing tasks, each with its own Christmas-themed prompt, starter sentence, and 10 ambitious vocabulary words to stretch learners’ creativity and literacy skills.

Perfect for English lessons in December, this pack offers a mix of prose, poetry, descriptive writing and letter writing tasks that are engaging, imaginative and curriculum-friendly. Designed to build vocabulary, encourage extended writing, and support creative independence, these activities work brilliantly across a range of abilities in Years 7–9.

This resource is ideal for:

Classwork

Homework

Cover lessons

Independent writing tasks

End-of-term Christmas activities

Literacy enrichment and vocabulary building

Each task includes:

• A high-quality Christmas writing prompt
  -A starter sentence to kickstart ideas
  -Ten challenging vocabulary words to embed
  -A range of genres (narrative, description, poetry, letter writing)

Perfect for busy teachers needing ready-to-use Christmas English lessons. These tasks require no preparation and can easily be used as stand-alone lessons or part of a festive writing unit.

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