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We think the school Christmas holidays should be a time for reflection, relaxation and ridiculously fun activities — for teachers and children alike! With this in mind, we’ve created an alternative list of homework activities for teachers to set their class. It’s the perfect balance of super-fun activities, memory-making tasks and educational skills. Below you'll find a printable sheet with 15 festive, free, fun activities to send home with your class to help them channel that festive excitement into some meaningful and enjoyable missions.

They can choose their favourites to do or complete them all if they wish!

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Here are 16 fun, free festive homework ideas for the Christmas holidays:

• Write a letter to Santa’s elves, it’s usually Santa that gets all the post!
• Can you design a Christmas card and send it to your favourite person?
• Make a festive decoration for around the house or to hang on the tree.
• Create a homemade gift and give it to a friend or family member.
• Make a list of things you really want to learn or achieve in the New Year. Remember to write a note to yourself and pack it away with the decorations for you to be reminded of next year.
• Have a dance party in the living room to your favourite festive songs.
• Can you find out about Christmas in another country? How does it differ from Christmas in yours?
• Can you make a Christmas tree out of something different? Lego, plasticine, the choice is yours!
• Can you write your own Christmas song or rap, and perform it to your family?
• Have a meal with your family and talk about your favourite memories of this year and the best things that happened to you.
• If you’re lucky enough to receive Christmas presents, write thank you notes and send them. Can you include something you loved about the gift?
• Birds can get very hungry at this time of year. Can you make a festive bird feeder out of a milk carton, box or bottle and hang it outside?
• Can you make a snow globe out of an empty container? What will you put inside?
• Have a festive movie night, get cosy and tune into a Christmas classic.
• Can you help to bake some Christmas cookies? Or a Christmas cake?

And of course, the most essential thing to do is… Have lots of festive FUN!

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December is often a busy time not just in the classroom, but in our personal lives as well. That coupled with the holiday excitement that the students bring to school each day, it can feel overwhelming to manage everyone and everything. I found over the years that when I bring the holiday fun into the classroom with purposeful, engaging activities, things seem to feel a bit less chaotic. So I say let’s bring on the Polar Express, holidays around the world, and reindeer by including holiday literacy activities in lesson planning.

Today I want to share some of my favorite holiday literacy resources to add some holiday cheer to your literacy block. Additionally, many of these resources also make great displays for the hallway or your classroom.

Why I Love Integrating Literacy and Holidays

During a busy season like the holidays, you can make more time to do fun holiday activities and crafts when you get creative with how you fit them into your day. Through read alouds, shared reading, interactive notebook activities, writing crafts, and themed centers, we can easily integrate reading and writing through the season to bring holiday cheer in our classrooms while improving literacy skills.

I also love any opportunity to sneak in extra practice with writing conventions, reading comprehension, and word work. When we do activities that are truly engaging, my students don’t always realize that they are learning and practicing important skills at the same time.

Top Holiday Literacy Activities

These are some of my favorite holiday literacy activities for kinder, first, and second grades. I also sprinkled in some freebies , so be sure to check them out!

December Literacy Stations

One great way to bring holiday literacy activities to your classroom is through literacy centers. Holiday-themed literacy stations always bring cheer to your reading block time! The December Literacy Stations has seven centers for you to use this month:

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With simple-to-prep stations, you and your students will all love these engaging activities!

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Gingerbread Writing Craftivity

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Gingerbread Man Activities and Literacy Activities

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FREE Mouse and Movie Retelling Activity

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Children studying in class 4 have a mind that needs to be nurtured. Holiday homework is always aimed at learning goals that students reach just in the lessons. There are a lot of valuable skills such as time management, confidence, creativity, strategizing, etc that students pick up along the way as they complete their holiday homework. This blog is packed with 11 ideas for creative holiday homework for class 4 that have been categorized as crafts and art homework, games and activities homework, etc. Teachers can use these ideas to shape young minds and develop them. To know more, keep reading this blog! 

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• 1.1 1. Make a Board Game 
• 1.2 2. Prepare a Dish from a Recipe Book 
• 1.3 3. Create a Birdhouse 
• 1.4 4. Transform a Fictional Book Character into a Hand Puppet 
• 2.1 5. Making a School Replica in Minecraft 
• 2.2 6. Play Zoo Tycoon or Rollercoaster Tycoon 
• 3.1 7. Walking Quest 
• 3.2 8. Rope Skipping 
• 3.3 9. Obstacle Quiz 
• 4.1 10. Create a Picture Album 
• 4.2 11. Describe it in 5 minute Video 

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Art and Craft Creative Holiday Homework for Class 4 Students 

We have compiled a list of arts and crafts creative holiday homework for Class 4 students in this section. Let us look at them now. 

1. Make a Board Game 

This is one of the most creative ideas. Creating a board game with students’ own rules is a great way to allow them to be inventive and imaginative. 

2. Prepare a Dish from a Recipe Book 

There are many skills like reading, chemistry, math, etc that are covered in cooking. This is a great way to allow them to develop all this along with proper measurement and precision. 

3. Create a Birdhouse 

In this activity, students will have to create a blueprint of the birdhouse, measure all the sides, properly construct it, and then decorate it. This will add to their creativity and craft side. 

4. Transform a Fictional Book Character into a Hand Puppet 

Fictional stories become so much more fun when we can bring those characters to life. In this activity, students will explore their imagination to create puppets of their favourite fictional book characters. 

Also Read: Benefits of Clay Art for Children  

Games and Activities as Creative Holiday Homework for Class 4 Students

There are plenty of games and activities that can be assigned in the form of homework that will help develop young minds. Let us look at a few interesting games and activities as creative holiday homework for Class 4 students. 

5. Making a School Replica in Minecraft 

Minecraft is a computer game that replicates building blocks. Students can be asked to develop a replica of their own school in the said game. 

6. Play Zoo Tycoon or Rollercoaster Tycoon 

In these two games, students have to build a zoo or a theme park. And along with that, they have to solve problems all the time. They have to gather money to keep building and make the park profitable. This game teaches students how to handle money and how to solve problems. And it’s fun at the same time! 

Also Read: 5 Best Social-Emotional Learning Activities  

Physical Homework Activities as Creative Holiday Homework for Class 4 

Physical activities can also be assigned as creative holiday homework for Class 4 students. These will allow them to develop their fitness skills. Let us look at some of these activities now. 

7. Walking Quest 

In this activity, students have to go on a walking tour and get a paper with pictures on it. They have to find the points in pictures on their way and put them in the right order. This is a fun activity and will help develop their attention while at the same time making sure that students get their daily walk done. 

8. Rope Skipping 

Students can be asked to create a video of them skipping rope to attain a particular level of jumps. This is a perfect activity to promote agility and mindfulness in students. 

9. Obstacle Quiz 

In this activity, students must create a quiz from their lesson materials. This allows them to work with the lesson material and, hence, helps them remember it better. Apart from that, they have to make a game out of it. This will transform a normal quiz into a quiz with challenges. 

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Digital or Computer Holiday Homework for Class 4 Students 

These activities will not only allow the students to complete their homework, but at the same time, they enhance their computer learning. 

10. Create a Picture Album 

You can ask students to create a photo album of their vacation days along with sentences describing the pictures. This will allow them to use computer software to create the same. 

11. Describe it in 5 minute Video 

Students can 5-minute asked to describe any one of their interesting days in a video. This will allow the students to develop great speaking skills along with developing confidence. 

Ans: You can make holiday homework creative by giving students different activities like arts and crafts, quizzes, etc as homework. 

Ans: You can plan your holiday homework by creating a schedule giving equal importance to each aspect of your day. 

Ans: If you plan on completing your holiday homework in 2 days, then create a study plan for those two days dividing it across various subjects that you will have to cover in your holiday homework. 

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