25+ Fun Christmas Math Activities for All Ages
Today’s post is all about Christmas math activities!
Whether you’re looking for something for a specific age, a specific math skill, or an adorable activity that’s both math- and Christmas-themed, I’ve got you covered!
For something you can display on your bulletin board or hang in your home, you’ve come to the right place with this round-up of the best Christmas math activities for all ages! 🎄
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The Best Christmas Math Activities
I love these activities for both homeschooling and traditional teaching because most of the activities work for a range of ages.
This is great for homeschool because you could choose one activity that’s the *exact same*, and it’ll work for your 8-year-old and your 11-year-old perfectly!
It’s also a huge time saver for traditional school teachers because not only are y’all crazy busy around this time of year, but these ranged activities will help you cover a lot of bases with easy differentiation options.
Christmas Math Activities for Preschoolers and Toddlers
Do you struggle to find fun Christmas math activities for toddlers or preschoolers?
Sensory and STEAM is a creator that focuses on making awesome activities for your littlest learners!
Toddlers, Pre-K, or TK kiddos will have so much fun with all of the activities here, and you’ve got over 100 pages to choose from!
Kindergarten Centers Christmas Math Activities
These activities by Keeping My Kinders Busy are a great fit for PK, Kinder, and homeschool.
You’ll love this 71 page bundle that is ready for you to print and go.
Use it for homeschool littles’ learning, small group activities, or Kindergarten centers.
PK-1st Worksheets Christmas Math Activities
A fantastic 30 page set by Kinder My Way!
These Christmas math activities for kindergarten have pages to practice addition, graphing, patterning, counting sets, missing numbers and more.
It includes 30 pages of engaging, skill-focused activities, all centered around a Christmas theme that could be work well for Pre-K, Kinder, or 1st graders.
K-3 Color by Number Christmas Math Activities
Math skill practice that’s Christmas-themed and turns into a craft at the end?!
We used this activity by Pink Cat Studio year after year when I taught third grade, because you can pick and choose activities for learners on K-3rd grade skill levels without singling anyone out.
Plus, you can either display the paper craft you create on a tabletop, or even hang it from the ceiling to show off your Christmasy math skills!
1st-3rd Math and Literacy No Prep Christmas Math Activities
A fun and engaging set with PLENTY of activities to keep your little ones learning during the month of December.
Teaching Second Grade created this Christmas bundle that has activities for both math and literacy skill practice.
In this bundle, you’ll find sorts, fill in the blank, matching activities, and so much more.
1st-4th December Crafts Christmas Math Activities
These activities are not only cute math crafts but they’ve also got tons of learning packed in too.
Choose from FOUR adorable math crafts created by Jana Guerra, while practicing addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division math skills.
1st-4th Reindeer Mixed Review Christmas Math Activities
Great for a Christmas or winter holiday bulletin board, this reindeer math craft by Jana Guerra is a super versatile choice for sub plans or many grade levels.
With 18 levels to choose from, teachers can quickly offer in-class differentiation, so all students stay on track with the same activity!
1st-4th Snow Globe Christmas Math Activities
Give math practice a winter twist with crafts by Jana Guerra for addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division!
Great for brightening up a winter bulletin board or your windows at home, this resource comes in four different snow globe designs: a snowman, a penguin, a cityscape, and a barn surrounded by trees. 💚
2nd-4th Elf Mystery Christmas Math Activities
Students use five clues and critical thinking skills to crack the mystery made by Mrs. J’s Resource Creations.
To solve the five clues, they’ll need to use the skills of multiplying by 6s and 9s, addition with 2-digit and 3-digit numbers (with regrouping), multiplying by 11s and 12s, division relative to multiplication, and subtraction with 2-digit numbers (with regrouping).
2nd-5th Multi-Subject Christmas Math Activities
An excellent activity with cross-curricular connections through math, reading, writing, and STEM by Not So Wimpy Teacher.
It’s full of hands-on activities that ask kids to use their critical thinking skills, creativity, and more through real-world scenarios.
2nd-8th Snowman STEM Christmas Math Activities
This winter STEM activity by Kerry Tracy could work great before or after your Winter Break.
Students will be challenged to design the tallest free-standing snowman or the snowman with the greatest volume or surface area.
Included is an optional Christmas-themed activity that could work great as a science extension- designing your own melting experiment.
3rd-5th Mystery Picture Graphs Christmas Math Activities
Using the colors and coordinates given, students will create mystery pictures from Mrs. Thompson’s Treasures.
The resource includes full-page pictures of Santa, a Christmas tree, an elf, a snowman, and Rudolph.
3rd-6th CSI Math Mystery Christmas Math Activities
This Christmas math activity asks students to figure out who stole Santa’s sleigh, created by Box of Possibilities Math and Science Fun.
Students will complete worksheets that are their clues to solve the mystery.
By solving the four clues, they’ll figure out the mystery thief that stole Santa’s sleigh!
The four clues are a hidden multiplication message, magic to fly the sleigh, fractions- fuel in the suspects snowmobile, and bribing the guard- adding money (cents and decimals included).
An optional writing connection comes with the activity that would be great for early finishers: What Would You Do If You Had Santa’s Sleigh for a Day?
4th-5th Math & Reading Christmas Math Activities
Kim Miller created reading comprehension passages, grammar review, and math activities for the entire month of December!
The Christmas math activities for elementary students within the bundle are:
- Unwrapping Patterns (Number and Shape Patterns)
- Merry Math Mastery (Factors, Multiples, Prime, and Composite Numbers)
- Holiday Number Form (Standard Form, Word Form, and Expanded Form)
- Christmas Number Magic (Finding the Value of Larger Numbers)
- Christmas Equations (Multiplication Equations)
- Frosty Math Challenges (Multiplication and Division Word Problems)
- Reindeer Riddles (Multiple Step Word Problems)
- Christmas Confections (Multiplication and Addition with Decimals)
- Festive Math Color by Code (Division Facts)
4th-6th Skills Review Christmas Math Activities
A wonderful math skills review made fun and engaging for the month of December by Shelly Rees.
This fun, academically-aligned, no prep Christmas math worksheets packet includes:
- Decorative Division (Long Division by 1-Digit Divisors)
- Multiplication Color by Number (Multiplication Facts)
- Merry Matching (3-Digit Addition)
- Christmas Confusion (Logic Puzzle)
- Merry Multiples (Identifying Multiples)
- Christmas Riddle Time (2-Digit Multiplication)
- Fa-La-La-La Fractions (Simplifying Fractions)
- Shopping for Santa (Money)
- Bonus: 6 Printable Christmas Cards (Coloring Activity)
- Answer Keys
4th-6th Review Christmas Math Activities With Differentiation
Do you want an activity that students can work on little by little during the month of December that they’ll actually enjoy?
Games 4 Gains has you covered with this planning for Christmas project!
To complete this real-world Christmas project, kids will need to figure out how much time they have left to complete various tasks, shop for gifts, decorate the house and tree, bake gingerbread cookies, and more.
4th-7th Holiday Project Differentiated Christmas Math Activities
This super fun project is called To Grandmother’s House We Go: A Holiday Math Project for the Upper Grades by Teaching With a Mountain View.
Students will experience many real-world skills and essential math understandings as they work through this 16-page packet.
They’ll need to do the following and more: pack their bags, get on the road, go shopping, buy groceries, build a gingerbread house, wrap their gifts, bake a pie, graph the weather, trim the tree, and plot out the tree farm.
4th-9th Coordinate Graphing Christmas Math Activities
Christmas math activities for middle school and upper elementary that are actually fun can be hard to come by.
Christine Nannini is helping to fix that with this mystery picture activity that’s differentiated for your kiddos.
You’ll get four Christmas-themed coordinate graphing pictures, with each picture having the option to choose from one of three differentiated activity options.
4th-12th Tessellations Holiday Art Christmas Math Activities
Christmas tessellations are always a hit with students!
Pick Up and Go Resources has packed SO many different tessellation options in this packet, which is why it’s a great fit for such a large age range.
Tessellations included are:
- Christmas tree (moderately easy)
- Bauble (medium)
- Candy cane (easy)
- Christmas stocking with curved edges (hard)
- Geometric Christmas stocking (easy)
- Elf (Hard)
- Santa’s head (medium)
- Present (easy)
5th-8th Ugly Sweaters Plotting Christmas Math Activities
A fun and super cute differentiated activity by Amazing Mathematics.
Give students this engaging Christmas math activity for coordinate plane graphing that’ll strengthen kid’s skills in graphing ordered pairs in all four quadrants.
It’s also a great option for multiple age levels or classes with high differentiation needs because it already includes three differentiated options that stem from the same math skills.
6th-9th Simplifying Algebraic Expressions Christmas Math Activities
Students will enjoy this activity with tons of practice simplifying and evaluating algebraic equations from Promoting Success.
Use this activity as task cards for the whole class or small groups, or bell ringers and exit tickets.
6th-10th Proportions and Unit Rate Christmas Math Activities
Beyond the Worksheet created an activity packet that seems like a coloring activity, which actually tackles the challenging skills of solving ratio and proportions equations.
You’ll get a variety word problems in this Christmas math activity for high school and middle school that asks students to set up and solve proportions and unit rate problems.
7th-10th Graphing Slope Intercept Christmas Math Activities
Amazing Mathematics created a fantastic, engaging activity that lets students strengthen their skills in graphing lines in slope intercept form.
Students start with a graph featuring 12 elves and 12 equations.
For each equation, they’ll graph a line to “catch” an elf by running the line through any part of its body.
They’ll then write the equation next to the elf that was “caught.”
Students will need to take their time and get their work exactly right, because each line should pass through only one elf. If a line crosses more than one elf, the student will need to adjust for accuracy.
7th-10th Missing Angles Game Christmas Math Activities
Do your kids love escape rooms?
Escape Room EDU has so many fun and affordable escape rooms, like this Christmas missing angles game!
Choose from either the digital or print version, with the option to use physical boxes with locks as a part of the fun.
When I was a teacher, I loved escape room activities so much that I applied for and was awarded a grant to get a few sets of escape room boxes with locks one year from Breakout EDU (not spon).
8th-11th Linear Inequalities Christmas Math Activities
Algebra Accents has a great Christmas-themed activity for you that has students graph 12 linear inequalities and identify possible solutions in this fun coloring activity.
This activity includes 6 inequalities written in slope-intercept form and 6 inequalities written in standard form, which kids need to solve before graphing.
A great bonus is that there’s even an included answer key!
8th-11th Systems of Equations Christmas Math Activities
Create a full Algebra Christmas Tree display by stringing the Solving Systems of Equations Algebra garland together to make a tree and add the Solving Systems of Equations Algebra ornaments.
This bundle contains both resources for you, created by Algebra Accents!
9th-12th Solving Radical Equations Christmas Math Activities
Although solving radical equations can be tricky, your high schoolers will love practicing with this fun, winter-themed activity from Fun with Algebra.
Plus, this resource is self-checking! Students will check their work along the way to be sure they’re doing the right thing, so they can fix any mistakes right away.
Types of problems included:
- Solve equations with one radical = number
- Radical = radical
- Radical = binomial
- Square roots and cube roots
9th-12th Algebraic Expressions Christmas Math Activities
‘Tis the season for fun with algebra with this delightful high school math activity Christmas worksheet.
This rigorous but fun activity from AG Tutoring LLC lets your students practice their skills in rewriting and simplifying algebraic expressions.
They’ll need to solve each algebraic expressions problem, including questions with polynomials and about finding equivalent expressions, to figure out a Christmas riddle at the end.
That’s everything you need to know about Christmas math activities!
Whether you want one resource that’s a great fit for lots of ages in your homeschool math time this December, or you’re a teacher that needs a grab and go Christmas math worksheet set, I hope you’ve found something here that’s just right for you!
I hope your kiddos have a great time with these activities that are filled with academic rigor, opportunities to be creative, and the chance to work together to unlock some Christmas math fun.
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