Free Christmas Worksheets for Kids: Math, Reading and Puzzles to Print
December is the hardest month to sit a child down with a worksheet, and the easiest one to make it fun. A Christmas picture, a story about Santa's smallest reindeer or a secret star to color is often all it takes. Our free Christmas worksheets cover math, reading, writing and puzzles from preschool to 5th grade, and every one prints with an answer key.
Preschool and kindergarten
For the youngest, Christmas is about pictures and colors. Christmas Color by Number for Kindergarten uses numbers only, so a child who knows their numbers to 10 can color a whole Christmas picture alone. Winter or Summer? Sorting Worksheet asks which things belong to which season, a first step in sorting and talking about the weather.
1st and 2nd grade: adding and subtracting
- Color by number with problems: every square holds a sum and the answer picks the color, so the picture only appears when the math is right. Snowman (addition to 10), present (subtraction within 10), bell (addition to 20) and candy cane (subtraction within 20).
- Word problems: Christmas Word Problems to 20 are short stories about presents, cookies and paper stars, with squares to work on and a line for the answer.
- Reading: Christmas Reading: A Cookie for Santa is a short story for beginning readers, and Christmas Word Search hides ten Christmas words.
3rd to 5th grade: times tables, reading and grammar
- Multiplication: Christmas Times Tables Word Problems, plus color by number pictures of a stocking and a gingerbread man where every square is a times-table fact.
- Reading comprehension: Christmas Reading: The Smallest Reindeer, Christmas Reading: A Gift for Grandma and Christmas Reading: The Night the Lights Went Out, each with multiple-choice and written questions, and A Letter to Santa for a gentler start.
- Grammar and spelling: Christmas Nouns, Verbs and Adjectives and Christmas Spelling Sort: ee or ea.
- Puzzles: Christmas Crossword for Kids and, for older children, Christmas Crossword: Challenge.
Learning Spanish? Christmas Words in Spanish: Match and Spanish Christmas Crossword practice the Christmas words in Spanish.
An Advent math calendar
The Advent calendars have 24 problems, one for each day until Christmas Eve: your child solves the day's problem and colors its star. Choose adding and subtracting for younger children or times tables for 2nd and 3rd grade. Print it on 30 November and put it on the fridge, so day 1 is ready.
New on every print
Most of these worksheets are generated: click Generate new and you get new numbers, new words or a new crossword, with an answer key for exactly that version. Siblings can each have their own Advent calendar, a teacher can print a different version for every student, and a sheet that went well can be printed again the next day without being the same.
One sheet a day until Christmas
If you would rather not choose, two learning paths do it for you, one worksheet a day: the Christmas worksheets daily challenge (word problems, the Advent calendar and stories) and 21 days of Christmas puzzles (color by number, crosswords, sorts and reading), which gets a little harder every day.
Tips for December
- Keep it short: one sheet, ten minutes. In December the habit matters more than the amount.
- Save the color by number pictures for the days when nobody wants to do math.
- Ask your child to make up a Christmas word problem for you, and get it wrong on purpose.
- After the holidays, carry on with the winter worksheets: snowmen, animals in winter and snowy word problems, with no Christmas in them.
