Hey there, teacher friends!
Christmas is a festive time of year that can be celebrated in special education classrooms in a variety of ways. Let’s jingle all the way into some chris-citing ideas to help you get started!
Christmas Crafts
Arts and crafts activities are always popular with students.
Get your students in the holiday spirit by creating Christmas-themed crafts like ornaments, wreaths, or snowflakes with different materials like construction paper, paint, or even sensory materials like glitter or cotton balls.
Ho ho ho, it’s time to get creative and deck those classroom halls!
✏️ Directed Drawings
Directed drawing is an amazing activity that can be easily differentiated to meet the needs of learners of all abilities.
By providing step-by-step instructions, learners who struggle with fine motor skills or attention to detail can still participate and create a beautiful piece of drawing.
Additionally, learners who need an extra challenge can be given more complex templates or encouraged to add their own unique touches to their artwork.
Click here for Christmas Directed Drawing resource
Christmas Cooking
Cooking is a fun way to celebrate any holiday, and Christmas is no exception!
Have your students whip up some Christmas-themed snacks like sugar cookies or gingerbread houses, or involve them in the process of decorating a holiday cake.
It’s time to bake up some Christmas magic in the school or classroom kitchen!
Maybe you could even design the gingerbread houses students want to create as a design task. Or even sell them for fundraising ideas for your classroom.
Get all the parents and kids involved this festive season.
Task Cards
Task cards are a versatile and engaging teaching tool that can be used to promote active learning and student-centred instruction.
The Life Skill and Vocational Christmas – Next Dollar Up Task Cards are full of Differentiated activities (120+ Cards).
Including student progress and IEP/ ILP prewritten goals, and answer pages for teachers!
Also including numbered cards, Designed box covers, SMART Goals and Special Education Data tracking for students
Click here for Christmas Task Card resources
Christmas Story Time
Reading books about the Christmas story can help students understand the meaning behind the holiday.
Choose books with simple language and bright illustrations to engage your students and spark discussions about the story.
Some of our classroom favourites are
How the Grinch Stole Christmas” by Dr. Seuss
The Night Before Christmas” by Clement C. Moore
The Polar Express” by Chris Van Allsburg and
Pig the Elf by Aaron Blabey
Christmas Carol Singing
Choose songs with simple lyrics and catchy tunes, or use visual aids like videos or song books to help students follow along.
Singing Christmas carols is a fun and engaging way to celebrate the holiday.
Let’s rock around the Christmas tree and sing some carols with our best “fa-la-la-la-la”!
You could even together as a class practice sign language movements in singing the song, this is great maybe for non-verbal students. This way everyone can participate.
☀️Christmas morning warm ups
The Christmas Day morning warm ups are a must for any Special Education classroom!
This special edition of the Life Skill Daily Morning Work is full of Daily Emotional Santa check ins for students and Differentiated activities across a range of curriculums and key learning areas.
Super Easy No prep, great for the busy Special Education Teacher ❤️
Each Warm Up page comes with Christmas Based:
✅Emotional Emoji Check in
✅Weekly traceable days
✅Calendar skills
✅Life Skills
✅Telling Time
✅Community Signs
✅Maths Skills
✅Literacy Skills
✅Daily Vocab words
✅World Culture
✅Binder Cover
✅Student Monitoring Page
✅Monthly Title Page
✅Completion Certificate
Click here for Christmas Morning Warm Up resources
Christmas is a wonderful time to bring some holiday cheer into your special education classroom.
So, let’s have some holly jolly fun and celebrate Christmas with our special education kiddos and enjoy this magical special time together.
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Thank You! ❤️
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