10 Christmas Centres for Kindergarten
Hello, exhausted teachers. We’re almost there. Here are some ideas for Christmas centres for your last few days of school. We’re keeping it simple here!
- Decorate a Christmas tree with loose parts, such as buttons, pom poms, beads, or plastic gems.
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2. Clothespins and Christmas Ten Frames – This is a free printable from Totschooling. Add some clothespins and you’re ready to go. These were printed on cardstock and laminated but there’s no reason you couldn’t just print, cut, and play! This activity helps students practice counting, subitizing, fine motor, matching, number recognition, focus, and more.
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3. An invitation to build a Christmas tree. You could use a light table, but you could also try this in a block centre, with loose parts, or with Lego.
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4. Tracing Christmas pictures. Use a transparency to draw or copy a Christmas picture. Have students put a blank piece of paper on top and trace with a pencil. Remember to hold the paper still with one hand (or a bit of tape!)
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5. Number Order Christmas Tree Puzzles. Draw a triangle on green construction paper. Use a ruler to draw 9 horizontal lines. Write numbers 1-10 and cut on the lines.
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6. Play a Christmas themed math game. This Christmas centre is a freebie from @simplykinder
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7. Fingerpainting Christmas Trees. You could draw an outline in pencil, make a tracer, or have students draw their own Christmas tree shape.
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8. Christmas Tree Stem Challenge. Can you build a Christmas tree that holds 10 ornaments and a star at the top?
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9. Hole punch Christmas trees. This is a quick, low-prep activity. You’ll need green construction paper triangles, hole punches, and pencils. Hole punch ornaments on a Christmas tree, count, and write the number of “ornaments”. Add a string and some clothespins for them to hang their trees in order.
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10. This video actually has 3 ideas in 1 (bonus!): Real or fake snow in a sensory bin, window writing with Christmas vocabulary, and bells taped to a popsicle stick for playing along to “Jingle Bells”.
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Wishing you all patience and peace through the chaos of the last week of school before the holidays. I hope you enjoy these Christmas centres with your students.
For a Christmas story read by me, Mrs. Bacchus, here’s Pick a Pine Tree and Dasher.
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