During the holidays, it’s nice for kids to be able to have some down time. There is so much hustle and bustle. It can help kids regulate their emotions to be able to have quiet time to reset. These Christmas printables games can provide that down time.
We’ve got some free Christmas printable games for kids to play. You can download them, print them off, and let your child enjoy.
This Christmas Cookie I Spy worksheet for is fun and festive but also helps kids practise their counting skills. You can download the printable holiday search here or entering your email below.
Continuing with the holiday baking theme, kids can do this Christmas Cookie Word Search. You can download the free printable word search by going here or by entering your email in the box below.
This simple word search is easy enough for even fairly young children to be able to complete. Download it to print by clicking here or putting your email in below.
These activities are also a great way to help kids maintain some of their learning over winter break. And they won’t even realize that they’re learning!
Check out these more active Christmas activities:
This holiday scented Christmas tree slime allows kids to use their imaginations as they “decorate” the tree. It also provides tactile, visual, olfactory (scent), and proprioceptive sensory feedback.
Instructions:
During the holidays, it can be even more important to have sensory play activities around. When kids aren’t doing their regular routine, they can have a harder time self-regulating. Ensuring that they are receiving plenty of sensory input, particularly the type that provides proprioceptive feedback can help them to regulate.
Slime makes a great gift. You can either give the homemade slime in a container topped with a bow or festive cookie cutter on ribbon or create a kit with slime ingredients and recipes.
Knead each one separately until it becomes the consistency of slime.
Just a little note to add: once you start playing with all three colours together, they will eventually mix. The colours don’t stay magically separated!
What I like about this particular sensory bag is that it makes a scrunchy sound when you squish it. It also has a few different textures in the bag so it offers tactile, visual and auditory sensory experiences.
To assemble this Christmas sensory bag, open the resealable bag, fill it half to three quarters full with the coloured paper shreds and then add the other items. Remove the excess air from the bag and seal.
Depending on the age and ability of the child who is using this, you may want to use duct tape to firm up the seal so that they can’t open it and pull out the contents which could be choking hazards for younger kids. You can finds all kinds of Christmasy duct tape to make it look more festive. Of course, as with all sensory activities, adult supervision should be used.
