With a packed curriculum, it’s sometimes hard to find time to both plan and teach seasonal activities. To make it easier for you to inject the festive fun into the remainder of the term, we’ve hand-picked this collection of one-off lesson ideas and activities to help you keep students engaged in the run up to the holidays.
Tes Secondary: Christmas
Bring Christmas into your classroom with these one-off festive themed lessons and activities
Whole school and tutor time
Christmas Quiz
**2025 Christmas Quiz!** Celebrate Christmas this winter with your secondary students with this 64 question Christmas quiz for 2025 themed around the event complete with answers in both quick and question by question format. This resource is 64 question Xmas quiz spread across 8 different rounds. It...
Christmas Dingbats
Christmas Dingbats (27-slide PowerPoint activity) Christmas Dingbats provides twenty more delightful dingbats all with a special Christmas theme and 2 accompanying worksheets. As well as a fun end of term activity, Christmas Dingbats provides a great way of developing deduction skills and foc...
Christmas Quiz - Pub Style
This is a paper-based, pub-style Christmas quiz. You may also be interested in: **[Pub Style Printable Christmas Quiz 12 rounds 120 Questions](https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/pub-style-christmas-quiz-printable-paper-based-12-rounds-120-questions-11779691)** **[Printable, Pa...
English & MFL
Christmas Unseen Poetry
A very detailed Christmas unseen poetry lesson that looks at a festive poem and helps students to break down the processes of analysing a poem independently so they build up their analytical skills for looking at new and unseen poems in exam conditions. Fully differentiated throughout.
Christmas anagram activity worksheet
Christmas anagram worksheet activities to share with your students. Included in this resource is a PowerPoint with 10x Christmas themed anagrams - 1 per slide. Students need to unscramble the letters to find the word. This resource is on PPT format and completely editable and the answers to each ...
El Quiz de La Navidad. Spanish Christmas Quiz
A quiz in Spanish consisting of four different rounds to learn about the main traditions of Christmas in Spain. The rounds include cultural multiple choice questions, completing the Christmas carol, guessing the image and unjumbling the letters to name key elements of Spanish Christmas. A fun way to...
Maths
Maths Christmas Activities Booklet
A collection of Christmas themed Maths puzzles and problems. Ideal for the end of term.
Christmas Coordinates
Christmas Coordinates: 4 Quadrant - Elf (5x5mm) 1 Quadrant - Rudolf (5x5mm) 1 Quadrant - Santa (5x5mm) 1 Quadrant (SEN Friendly) - Rudolf (1x1cm) 1 Quadrant (SEN Friendly) - Frosty (1x1cm) 1 Quadrant (SEN Friendly) - Holly (1x1cm) Enjoy!!! When i get a chance will make the following. ...
Christmas Maths Games Worksheets
**Overview** Christmas Maths Games Worksheets is a comprehensive resource containing 8 worksheets with a focus on using fun engaging activities to support students in learning maths with a Christmas theme. **Worksheet Descriptions** *1) Christmas Sudoku *This is a fun Christmas themed 9 X 9 sudoku...
Science & Computing
Christmas Science Fun Challenge
A fun science challenge to print out on a single A3 (or A4 for smaller print) for students to complete. Contains elements of biology, chemistry and physics in fun challenges. Total score is 76 with tie breakers on top of this. Suitable for KS3 and KS4. Great end of term activity.
Christmas Computing Quiz Year 9
Are you ready for an exhilarating and festive end of term Christmas activity? Look no further than our electrifying Christmas Computing Quiz, tailor-made for your Year 9 students! Prepare to be dazzled with this Who done it? style quiz specially crafted for Year 9. Solve the mystery by answer...
Christmas Science Quiz
A fun Christmas Science Quiz aimed at year 7 and 8 students. 15 slides with 14 different simple quiz activities, including bingo, word jumble, multiple choice and sketching. Editable so you can alter to suit your classes or just present and go! Great to use to give out points with at the end of ter...
Humanities
Christmas-Themed Geography Map Skills Activity Booklet
Are you ready to turn this holiday season into a global adventure for your young explorers? Introducing our enchanting Christmas-themed geography map skills activity booklet, specially crafted for curious minds aged 10-14! * **Festive Learning Fun:** Transform geography lessons into a holiday celeb...
Humanities Christmas Quiz
**UPDATED FOR 2025!** Celebrate Christmas this winter with your secondary Humanities students with this 66 question 6 round xmas quiz for 2025 themed around the event complete with answers. This resource is 66 question Xmas quiz spread across 6 different rounds (2x History, 2x Geography and 2x RE)....
History Christmas Traditions
This lesson investigates the history of Christmas and Christmas traditions from medieval times to today. Students will learn about where our modern traditions of pulling crackers and sending Christmas cards originated as well as the creation of Santa Claus! This download includes a fully editable ...
Creative
Free Christmas Ornament Template
Color and make your own Christmas tree ornaments with this free template! These DIY Christmas ornaments are easy for anyone to make. Just print, color, cut, fold, glue to make your 3D decorations to hang on your Christmas tree or sit as a centerpiece on your table for Christmas dinner! The...
Make a Christmas star lantern (Secondary)
In this fun and festive graphics project designed for secondary school students, learners focus on the making of a lantern shaped like a Christmas star using folded card and paper. This activity allows the theme of Christmas to develop their knowledge and skills in Design and Technology and Engine...
Electronic Christmas Card Project.
This is KS3 project which combines wood work skills, electronics (soldering skills, circuit, components & colour-coded resistors), 2D design, graphics and product design (a net, packaging and packaging symbols), including homework tasks. It helps students to work individually and as a team, to p...