Cross-curricular Christmas activities for your primary school classroom
It’s that time of the year when our thoughts inevitably are taken over by Christmas. The big autumn events are over and Christmas advertisements are flooding the TV schedules! I‘m sure you are already with Christmas fairs, Nativity plays and carol concerts all in the pipeline. We appreciate these things don’t happen overnight and take a whole lot of planning.
Here at Busy Things, we’re the same. And today we’re excited to showcase our online and offline cross-curricular activities for the festive season.
Offline Christmas Activity Pack
Just in time for the run-up to Christmas, we’ve updated our Christmas topical pack for schools. It’s getting bigger each year! In its 25 fun-filled pages, you will find:
- A fact sheet about Christmas
- A Nativity activity
- Christmas matching activities
- Christmas craft activities
- Drawing and colouring sheets
- A pixel art activity
- A Santa-themed coding puzzle
Download your copy here!
We hope you find something that will appeal to your pupils. Our particular favourite is the Nativity story, because it’s what Christmas is all about.
Online Christmas activities to bring festive cheer to your learning
Visit www.busythings.co.uk and you’ll find over 30 Christmas activities, spanning a whole range of subject areas! We’ve highlighted a selection below but go online to see the full range.
Enjoy The Nativity Story – NEW FOR 2025!
Share the story of Christmas with your pupils on the interactive whiteboard. Read it together, zoom into the scene and discuss the key events at your own pace.
Play ‘The Nativity Story – version 1’ here. This is for 5-to 7-year-olds. Version 2, created for 7-11-year-olds, can be found on www.busythings.co.uk.
Make maths fun with Miner birds: Christmas edition
The Miner birds series of maths activities is always a favourite, and the Christmas version is no exception!
The first chicken to collect 20 candy canes is the winner!
Help Santa deliver in style with Custom sleigh
Santa is an important part of Christmas and we think his traditional sleigh needs a makeover!
In our ‘Custom sleigh’ activity, the children take the reins. Will they have Santa and his reindeer deliver their presents or perhaps pink man in a bath tub led by a sheep?
Design the perfect Christmas tree
Christmas just isn’t Christmas without a tree, and they are great fun to decorate in real life and virtually with our ‘Christmas trees’ activity.
What colour scheme will your children choose? Will they go for a traditional star at the top or a Busy Things character?
Delight in some musical merriment with Jolly Jingles
Follow the monster and click on the pink man he’s hovering over so that he’ll ring his bell.
Can your pupils recognise the Christmas carol the pink men are playing?
How many notes need to be played for your pupils to work out each one?
Summary
We hope this blog has given you some new ideas to incorporate into your Christmas schedule.
As part of this blog, we’ve made The Nativity Story – Version 1 and Miner birds: Christmas edition free to play until after Christmas, and don’t forget to look out for our Advent Calendar jigsaws from 1st December! Last but not least, we have our new, bumper Christmas topical pack for schools, which is free to download above. Enjoy!
Like what you see?
If you’d like to see the other activities mentioned (and more), we’d love you to take out a free 28-day trial with us! Simply click here for this. You’re more than welcome to have a virtual tour via Teams too. If you’d like one, contact us here and we’ll get in touch!
This blog was updated in November 2025.
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