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Free Christmas Activities and Crafts for Kids: Top Holiday Printables

Creative Holiday Fun: Free Christmas Printables for Kids

As the holiday season gets into full swing, finding simple, engaging activities for the kids can be a challenge. Whether you are a teacher looking for classroom projects or a parent needing a quiet afternoon activity, KidsCanHaveFun.com offers a great library of free resources designed to make the season a little brighter.

Discover Christmas School Activities

The site features an extensive collection of printables that go beyond basic coloring pages. From holiday-themed math sheets to creative writing prompts, there is something for every age group. These activities are designed to be “grab-and-go,” meaning you can print them out and start immediately.

You can explore the full range of activities here:

Christmas School Activities

Spotlight: The Cut and Paste “Ugly Sweater” Craft

One standout activity this year is the Cut and Paste Christmas Sweater. The “ugly sweater” has become a holiday staple, and this printable lets children get in on the trend without the need for glue guns or expensive supplies.

Why this activity works:

Fine Motor Practice: The worksheet includes various holiday icons—like gingerbread men, snowflakes, and candy canes—that kids must carefully cut out and paste onto the sweater template.
Creative Expression: There is no “right” way to design the sweater. Kids can go for a minimalist look or make it as “ugly” and cluttered as possible.
Zero Mess: Unlike traditional crafts involving glitter or paint, this project only requires a pair of scissors and a glue stick.

Get the PDF here: Ugly Christmas Sweater Activity Sheet

Simple Ways to Use These Printables

Classroom Stations: Set up a “design station” during your holiday party.
Holiday Travel: Print a few sheets to take on road trips or flights to keep little hands busy.
DIY Decor: Once the sweaters are finished, string them together to create a festive paper banner for your mantle or classroom wall.

The best part about these resources is that they are completely free to access. Take some of the stress out of your holiday planning by utilizing these ready-made templates.

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Christmas Cut and Paste, Holiday Worksheet Activities

Kids will love these Christmas Cut and Paste holiday worksheets that they cut out and paste to complete. Cut and Paste Bear, Cut and Paste Christmas Tree, Cut and Paste Snowman, Cut and Paste Stickers and gift wrap.

Christmas Cut and Paste Tree

Cut out the Christmas ornaments and decorations and paste them on the Christmas tree. Kids can choose from two different Christmas trees to cut and paste bulbs onto. Kids can cut out the Christmas trees when they are done and hang them on the Christmas Tree, door knob, or fridge. If the kids would like to add more color to their trees they can add stickers, sparkles or add glue stick to areas of the trees before adding confetti.

Christmas Cut and Paste Bear

Cut and paste bear for kids to cut and paste the missing parts. Can the kids figure out where the pieces go? Color the picture after all the missing parts are pasted onto the bear.

Christmas Cut & Glue Snowman

This snowman is incomplete. Have the kids cut and paste the snowman back together again with the missing parts. Color the snowman afterwards.

Christmas Stickers

Use these cut and paste stickers to add to holiday art work, cards, projects and writing paper. They can also be used to make special holiday greeting cards.

Christmas Cut & Paste Gift Tags and Wrap

Kids can use these cut and paste gift tags and wrap to complete presents, school projects, art projects and more. Kids can cut and paste the gift tags to cardboard or heavy stock paper they cut out. Punch a hole using a hole punch to add string or ribbon to attach to gifts. Don’t forget to add your name on the back of the gift tags.

Twelve Days of Christmas Cut and Glue

Print, cut and glue these Twelve days of Christmas characters onto a sheet of paper while singing the song “The Twelve Days of Christmas”. Challenge the kids to see if they remember the order in which the characters are listed in the song. Choose colored or black and white characters to color. Kids can color the picture afterwards while singing the song.

Fun and simple Christmas activities for the kids to do during the festive season. Hang up the pictures at home or school to show the kids what a great job they’ve accomplished with cutting and pasting.

Printable Christmas Activities

Kids can enjoy fun Printable Christmas Activities for the holidays. Print your own Christmas wrapping paper or color your own to make it super special. Make gift envelopes, gift tags and stickers. Need a Christmas card, choose from a variety of Christmas cards. Let Santa know where the cookies and milk are by hanging one of these Christmas door hangers on your door. Print Christmas puppets and put on a Christmas show. Hang these Printable Christmas Tree Ornaments on the tree or decorate the house with Christmas Holiday Garlands. Find these and other fun Christmas Activities.

The Twelve Days of Christmas Activities

The Twelve Days of Christmas Activities with coloring pages, worksheets, games, puzzles, counting and sing-along printables.

The Twelve Days of Christmas Worksheets

Fun worksheets with counting activities. Count turtle doves, french hens, and pipers piping. Color the pictures and write down how many are in the song. Cut out the The 12 Days of Christmas characters and paste them in the correct order according to the song. Sort the Christmas characters into the proper sequence.

12 days of Christmas counting worksheets

Printable Christmas Games

Play 12 Days of Christmas Bingo with all the characters in the song. Print the Christmas Match game by placing the cards face down and turning two cards up to see if you have a match. Play a fun Tic Tac Toe game or be challenged with a character Christmas maze.

Christmas Word Puzzles

Play the Christmas Crossword or Word Search puzzles and see if you can guess or find all the names to the characters that belong in the song.

The Twelve Days of Christmas Word Search Puzzle

Sing-a-long Printables

Fun 12 Days of Christmas printable stickers, bookmarks to make, ruled paper to write on, 12 Days of Christmas poster, door hanger, sing-along lyrics and signs.

Coloring Pages

Color all the characters in 12 Days of Christmas song coloring pages. There’s a coloring page for each character. Color and count the character pages to see how many of each character belongs in the song.

Use these fun Christmas printables for home, daycare and school. Put the students in groups and have each group sing one of the days to the theme song while holding up the printable signs. At home the kids can hold up the correct sign in sequence to the song. Christmas songs are great for counting and math activities.

Christmas Worksheets for Kids, Fun Math, Cut and Paste

Holiday Christmas Worksheets for Kids

Christmas Worksheets for kids to complete during the Christmas holidays. Choose from Symmetry, Math, Tracing, Color by Numbers, Find the Letters, Cut & Paste, Spot the Difference, Christmas Match and more.

Christmas Holiday Math Worksheets

Kids can show off their math skills by learning fractions the Christmas wreath way, drawing Christmas pictures with skip counting or adding up holiday characters with Christmas Math.

Cut and Paste Activities and Worksheets

Show off your skills with adding Christmas characters to cut and paste holiday themes. Choose from eight different Christmas themes. Cut and paste Christmas trees, Christmas bulbs and Snowman.

cut and paste santa claus Christmas worksheets

Christmas Spot the Difference Activities

Can you spot the difference with these fun worksheet activities? Spot the difference with Snowmen, Penguins, Bears and Angels.

Christmas Tracing Pages

Trace Christmas holiday words and pictures such as Snowman, Santa Claus, Presents, Wish List and more.

Christmas Alphabet and Number Activities

Learn to recognize the alphabet and numbers in these holiday picture worksheets. Color by numbers Santa Claus, find the numbers in a Christmas Tree , Boy making a snow ball, or Santa Claus Reindeer picture. Circle the letters to spell Christmas in this Santa’s Wish List or spell Snowman in this winter picture.

Christmas Holiday Letterhead

Kids can use these Christmas Holiday Themed Letterhead to write Santa a letter, send a note to family members or write that special message to the teacher. Choose from nine designs with holiday pictures such as Holiday Nutcracker, Santa Claus, Angel and Christmas Tree.

12 Days of Christmas Worksheets

Counting practice with the 12 days of Christmas theme. Challenge the kids with counting geese, lords, calling birds and gold rings. Fun worksheets to sing along with and color.

Find these and more fun Holiday Christmas Worksheets for Kids.

Printable Christmas Ruled Paper

Print and use these printable Christmas ruled paper for letters to santa, home notes, school binders or projects. Choose writing paper with background Christmas images or images at the top and bottom in both color or black and white. Encourage the kids to write a variety of Christmas stories such as why Christmas, family and friends are special to them and attach them to gifts. Kids can use these printing papers to write their Christmas lists or a special note to their teachers. Find these and other special ruled papers.

Christmas Mazes for Kids, Santa, Reindeer, Xmas Tree, Angel

Christmas Mazes for kids in fun shapes with Christmas characters such as Santa claus, Santa’s Reindeer, Angels, Christmas Tree and more.

Fun Christmas Holiday Mazes for Kids

Fun Christmas Holiday Mazes for kids with Mrs. Claus and elves. Mrs. Claus needs help finding Santa’s elves. Trace a path through the arrow maze to the elves. Help the wiseman find baby Jesus in the nativity maze. Can you find the path through the Christmas tree maze to the present that belongs under the tree? A Christmas bird needs to find his friend through the ornament Christmas maze. Do you remember the song “A partridge in a Pear Tree”? One of the Calling Birds needs to find his way through the maze to the Partridge in the Pear Tree.

Christmas Santa Mazes

Help Santa with his Christmas Eve Visits by showing him how to get through the mazes. Trace a path to Santa’s missing friends or help santa down the chimney to the Christmas tree. Santa Claus needs help finding his countdown clock. Trace a path through the maze to the missing clock for Santa.

Christmas Snowman Mazes

Find the Snowgirl’s snowman friend by tracing the correct path through the snowball maze. Trace the path that was made in the snowman’s belly maze.

Christmas Angel Mazes

Can you help the angel find her friend by tracing through the snowball path maze? Help decorate the Christmas Tree by connecting the path of angels in the Christmas Angel maze.

Christmas Reindeer Mazes

Help Santa locate his missing reindeer for his sleigh in these fun reindeer mazes. Color Santa and the reindeer afterwards.

Holiday Mazes with fun festive characters to keep the kids busy during the holidays. Mazes are great for teaching kids logic and thinking skills by analyzing which paths are best to take to find the final passage.

Christmas Games

Kids can play the Old Scrooge Game played just like the game “old maid”. Teaches memory and pairs. Fun for the whole family. Print out these cards, cut them out, laminate them (optional), and have a fun family night.

Christmas Word Search

Christmas Word Search Puzzles to find Christmas words and color afterwards. Kids will enjoy The Twelve Days of Christmas word search, Santa, Nativity, Snowman and Holiday word searches. Easy and common Christmas words to find in all our Christmas Word Search puzzles.

Free Printable Christmas Coloring Pages, Color Santa Pictures

Kids Free Printable Christmas Coloring Pages for the Holidays

Lots of free printable Christmas coloring pages for the kids to color during the holiday season. Kids can choose from Santa Claus, Reindeer, Christmas Trees, Stocking Stuffers, Angels, Christmas Animals and other fun Christmas Holiday themed coloring pages. Choose from a variety of nativity scenes to color. There’s a a small Christmas coloring book to take along with you. Great activity to bring along while traveling, dining, visiting or playtime activities.

Christmas Doodles

Fun Christmas doodles for kids to take along on a trip, outing or to keep busy while waiting for Santa. The kids can also color a picture for each day their waiting for Christmas. Makes a great colorful fridge companion,

Small Christmas Coloring Book

Print and cut out these fun Christmas themed pictures and staple together as a book. There are four pages to print with Santa Claus, Christmas Tree, Christmas animals, Angel, Gingerbread Man and more. Small compact book that you can take anywhere.

Santa Claus Coloring Pages

Color a variety of Santa Claus coloring pages with Santa at work, riding his sleigh, going down the chimney, Santa with countdown clock, riding an airplane, Santa with his Christmas wish list and so many more free Santa coloring pages.

Christmas Angels Coloring Pages

Choose from a variety of Christmas Angels to color such as an Angel blowing a trumpet, flying high in the sky and wearing a halo. Cut out the colored angels and hang up on the ceiling or doorways.

Christmas Tree Coloring Pages

Christmas Trees to color with bright lights and colorful toys underneath. There’s even a dog pulling a Christmas tree as a toy. Cut out colored Christmas trees and glue to the front of a DIY Christmas card.

Nativity Coloring Pages

Nativity Scenes to color with baby Jesus in a manger, Mary looking at baby Jesus, Shepherd Boy, Wisemen with shining star and more. Create a Christmas story with colored nativity pictures.

Nativity Mary holding Jesus coloring page

Christmas Animals Coloring Pages

Christmas Animals to color for the holiday season. Kids can color a Christmas penguins, puppy or moose. Color a Christmas animal scene to share with grandma or grandpa.

Color many more Free Christmas Coloring Pages with holiday themes. Add these colorful pictures to many projects and cards.