Bring the magic of the festive season into your classroom with engaging worksheets that inspire creativity and learning.
As the festive season approaches, it’s the perfect time to sprinkle some cheer through your lessons! Our collection of festive worksheets brings together the best of seasonal excitement and essential learning, making it easy for teachers to keep pupils engaged right up to the holidays.
Designed to align with the primary maths and English curriculum, these resources not only capture children’s imaginations but also reinforce key skills. With low-prep worksheets that save you valuable planning time, you can focus on what matters most: inspiring learning and joy in your classroom.
December is a fantastic opportunity to bring creativity into your classroom routine. Our themed addition and subtraction sheets, along with the maths riddles, wordsearches and festive word scrambles, are all differentiated for different ages; simply check the worksheet file name to see the recommended age range. Use these resources as engaging morning starters, fun homework tasks, or as brain-boosting warm-ups before lessons.
For something unique, the ‘Elf Employment’ worksheet lets pupils put themselves in an elf’s shoes, combining literacy skills with imaginative thinking. These activities offer a festive twist on familiar formats, keeping pupils motivated and engaged throughout December.
This worksheet helps pupils strengthen their addition and subtraction skills with a festive twist, perfect for practising number fluency while keeping lessons seasonal and engaging.
• Strengthens early number and calculation skills
• Features visual prompts including baubles, reindeer, and snowflakes, supporting the development through the CPA (Concrete, Pictorial, Abstract) approach
• Ideal for morning starters or homework in December
• Low-prep and easy to differentiate for different ability levels
• Perfect for ages 5-10
Encourage critical thinking and problem-solving with playful, story-style maths riddles that spark curiosity and make learning festive fun.
• Covers addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division
• Encourages logical thinking and problem-solving
• Includes challenge questions for higher ability pupils
• Useful for everyone with three sets of worksheets and answers; ages 5-7, 7-9, and 10-12!
Multiplication and division practice sheet with festive images, perfect for reinforcing calculation skills and keeping pupils engaged.
• Short calculations using seasonal imagery
• Division questions with small whole-number results
• Designed for quick practice or warm-ups
• Includes three differentiated sets, each with worksheets and answers for ages 5-7, 7-9, and 10-12, making them accessible and valuable for all pupils
Enjoy a classic wordsearch filled with festive-themed vocabulary, designed to reinforce spelling and word recognition in a fun, seasonal format.
• Builds word recognition and spelling accuracy
• Uses familiar festive words
• Works well as an independent classroom task
• Three differentiated wordsearchesnand answers for ages 5–7, 7–9, and 10–12, so every pupil is supported
A literacy challenge where pupils unscramble seasonal words.
• Focuses on spelling and word recognition
• Features seasonal vocabulary such as reindeer and sleigh
• Great for quick festive literacy tasks
A visual matching activity where pupils pair holiday-themed words with the correct images.
• Reinforces festive vocabulary
• Supports visual learning and recall
• Simple and engaging for end-of-term lessons
A playful creative writing task where pupils apply to be elves in Santa’s workshop.
• Write a persuasive paragraph about why Santa should hire them
• Use creative writing skills for a North Pole reference
• Sketch a “(S)elf portrait” and rate elf skills including teamwork and festive spirit
Each worksheet in this festive pack is thoughtfully crafted to build and consolidate core skills. From differentiated addition, subtraction, multiplication and division sheets, to word-based puzzles that boost vocabulary and spelling, every resource has clear learning objectives. For additional support in developing core number skills, you might find our Maths Fluency Booster helpful.
Maths riddles challenge pupils' reasoning abilities and encourage collaborative problem-solving, while the festive word match and scramble activities deepen pupils' understanding of seasonal language. With curriculum alignment at the heart of each worksheet, you can be confident that festive fun never comes at the expense of progress. For more ideas on building maths fluency, check out our strategies for building maths fluency.