With a packed curriculum, it’s sometimes hard to find time to both plan and teach seasonal activities. To make it easier for you to inject the festive fun into the remainder of the term, we’ve hand-picked this collection of one-off lesson ideas and activities to help you keep students engaged in the run up to the holidays.
Tes Secondary: Christmas
Bring Christmas into your classroom with these one-off festive themed lessons and activities
Whole School
Christmas Quiz 2023
Celebrate Christmas this winter with your secondary students with this 64 question Christmas quiz for 2023 themed around the event complete with answers in both quick and question by question format. This resource is 64 question Xmas quiz spread across 8 different rounds. It is created on Microsoft ...
DIY Christmas Ornaments | 10 Pack
Color and make your own Christmas tree ornaments with this set of 10 fun holiday templates! These DIY Christmas ornament templates are easy for anyone to make. Just print, color, cut, fold, glue to make your 3D decorations to hang on your Christmas tree or sit as a centerpiece on your table for...
Christmas Quiz - Pub Style
This is a paper-based, pub-style Christmas quiz. You may also be interested in: **[Pub Style Printable Christmas Quiz 12 rounds 120 Questions](https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/pub-style-christmas-quiz-printable-paper-based-12-rounds-120-questions-11779691)** **[Printable, Pa...
Christmas Dingbats
Christmas Dingbats (27-slide PowerPoint activity) Christmas Dingbats provides twenty more delightful dingbats all with a special Christmas theme and 2 accompanying worksheets. As well as a fun end of term activity, Christmas Dingbats provides a great way of developing deduction skills and foc...
English & MFL
Christmas Unseen Poetry
A very detailed Christmas unseen poetry lesson that looks at a festive poem and helps students to break down the processes of analysing a poem independently so they build up their analytical skills for looking at new and unseen poems in exam conditions. Fully differentiated throughout.
Christmas anagram activity worksheet
Christmas anagram worksheet activities to share with your students. Included in this resource is a PowerPoint with 10x Christmas themed anagrams - 1 per slide. Students need to unscramble the letters to find the word. This resource is on PPT format and completely editable and the answers to each ...
French Christmas Cards to colour
3 Christmas Card Designs (Christmas tree, Father Christmas and Mrs Christmas, Rudolph) Pupils colour the picture according to the instructions. I have included colour background and black and white version to save on printing. Simply print, pupils fold in half, write a message inside ...
CALENDARIO ADVIENTO 2023 ADVENT CALENDAR. Navidad. Christmas. All levels
2023 Spanish Advent Calendar. The perfect Power Point to use during lessons prior to Christmas! Suitable for all levels! It includes a variety of short Christmas related activities or games such as battleships, noughts and crosses, songs, videos, a quiz, etc. spread throughout the days of the month ...
KS3 German- Christmas booklet
- Fun activities + answers on Christmas. There is also a free vocabulary sheet available online. The tasks are varied and some of them make references to other topics such as numbers or colours. As the answers are provided on Powerpoint, students can participate and self-assess their work. - 15 ac...
Maths
Maths Christmas Activities Booklet
A collection of Christmas themed Maths puzzles and problems. Ideal for the end of term.
Christmas Coordinates
Christmas Coordinates: 4 Quadrant - Elf (5x5mm) 1 Quadrant - Rudolf (5x5mm) 1 Quadrant - Santa (5x5mm) 1 Quadrant (SEN Friendly) - Rudolf (1x1cm) 1 Quadrant (SEN Friendly) - Frosty (1x1cm) 1 Quadrant (SEN Friendly) - Holly (1x1cm) Enjoy!!! When i get a chance will make the following. ...
Christmas maths: festive tessellations
Christmas maths - tessellations. Christmas themed tessellation activity for students to complete in class or for homework. A great consolidation activity that can engage students at Christmas. This could more than a whole lesson if you get the students to tessellate a design and then also colour it ...
Christmas Maths Games Worksheets
**Overview** Christmas Maths Games Worksheets is a comprehensive resource containing 8 worksheets with a focus on using fun engaging activities to support students in learning maths with a Christmas theme. **Worksheet Descriptions** *1) Christmas Sudoku *This is a fun Christmas themed 9 X 9 sudoku...
Collaborative Math Mosaics - Christmas Bundle (now 12 Versions!!)
Engage your whole class this Christmas in a giant collaborative math colouring quest! This high-school take on "colour-by-number" style worksheets will have even your most reluctant students working to complete their assignments! For Christmas this year, I wanted to give you all somet...
Science & Computing
Science Christmas Activities
A selection of Science Christmas activities on a A3 worksheet that are designed for a class competition. Lots of puzzles (wordsearch, riddles, codes, anagrams etc) and a few Science problems. Includes a easier version and sheet with all the answers. A periodic table is required to work out the codes.
Christmas Science Fun Challenge
A fun science challenge to print out on a single A3 (or A4 for smaller print) for students to complete. Contains elements of biology, chemistry and physics in fun challenges. Total score is 76 with tie breakers on top of this. Suitable for KS3 and KS4. Great end of term activity.
Python Naughty/Nice Christmas Program
KS3 or 4 task python program with assessed levels. Includes use of Variables and While function. Basic code is provided and instructions for students to perform adaptations with increasing levels of difficulty. Suitable for beginners or those with some experience. Probably better as a starter task f...
Christmas Computing Quiz Year 9
Are you ready for an exhilarating and festive end of term Christmas activity? Look no further than our electrifying Christmas Computing Quiz, tailor-made for your Year 9 students! Prepare to be dazzled with this Who done it? style quiz specially crafted for Year 9. Solve the mystery by answer...
Christmas Science Quiz
A fun Christmas Science Quiz aimed at year 7 and 8 students. 15 slides with 14 different simple quiz activities, including bingo, word jumble, multiple choice and sketching. Editable so you can alter to suit your classes or just present and go! Great to use to give out points with at the end of ter...
Humanities
Christmas Geography KS3 lesson - Longitude and Latitude
LESSON COVERS What longitude and latitude is and how it can be used to locate countries. The different characteristics of countries including biomes, temperature and other features. LESSON SUMMARY Lesson starts with a quick maths task where students are asked to come up with various numbers (...
Geography Christmas Quiz
Geography themed Christmas quiz which could be used in a lesson or form time. Answers for each round included.
Christmas 2017: Christmas in Tudor England
PowerPoint presentation and quiz: 28 slides (12 questions) A look at some of the features of Christmas in Tudor England.
The Christmas Truce
This is the synopsis of a festive brick from our Brillder content catalogue on the Christmas truce of 1914. Bricks are interactive digital learning units that combine the authority of a textbook with the excitement of a live, scoring game. They re collectable too once played, each brick ...
Christmas-Themed Geography Map Skills Activity Booklet
Are you ready to turn this holiday season into a global adventure for your young explorers? Introducing our enchanting Christmas-themed geography map skills activity booklet, specially crafted for curious minds aged 10-14! * Festive Learning Fun: Transform geography lessons into a holiday celebrati...
Creative
Free Christmas Cracker Template
Color and make your own Christmas Crackers with this free printable template! These DIY Christmas Crackers are easy for anyone to make. Just print, color, cut, fold, glue and fill with all your favorite goodies! If you d like more designs, you can upgrade to my pack of 8 Christmas Cracke...
Electronic Christmas Card Project.
This is KS3 project which combines wood work skills, electronics (soldering skills, circuit, components & colour-coded resistors), 2D design, graphics and product design (a net, packaging and packaging symbols), including homework tasks. It helps students to work individually and as a team, to p...
Christmas Cooking Club Recipes
This is six weeks worth of recipes for Christmas. Based on making gifts and edible decorations based on the theme of Christmas for my afterschool cooking club. No they're not healthy but very fun and as it is a one off course I feel I can justify it just this once!
Design a Christmas Cracker
**Design a Christmas Cracker** Legend has it that Christmas Crackers were first designed by confectioner Tom Smith to sell his sweets at Christmas time. He was inspired by the bon bon wrapper design that he had seen on his travels in France. He added the snap when the cracker was pulled...
Make a snow globe
**This is a craft activity that all children can enjoy. Using an empty jam jar, children can make a snow globe with biodegradable glitter and a few other items from around the home or classroom.** Our step-by-step guide is simple to follow, making it a great STEM project for children. It is an enj...