The Polar Express Craft: No Prep Polar Express Ticket Activity Booklet, Writing

Celebrate December and the approaching winter break with holiday season read aloud activities, crafts, and fun NO PREP worksheets that will save you TIME and PLANNING, plus bring a whole lot of Christmas magic to your kindergarten and first grade/grade one students!

Use this The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg resource independently or as part of the daily 12 READ ALOUDS OF CHRISTMAS advent calendar countdown reveal: designate a time on each of the 12 days leading up to Christmas break where kids can unwrap a book and reveal the day’s surprise read aloud. Then, complete some or all of the simple but FUN accompanying activities.

No worries if you don’t own the book or can’t find it at your local library, all books included in the 12 Days of Read Alouds can also be found on YouTube!

INCLUDED:

* Resource introduction

* BELIEVE Banner Craft

• Activity explanation (This extension activity not only builds text-to-self connections and literacy/vocabulary skills, but it also makes for a lovely keepsake decoration that students can bring home and display year after year!)
• pennant templates (2 options)

* Train Ticket Activity Booklet

• Activity explanation, variations included! (The Polar Express train ticket was special, but this ticket takes it to another level! Students will create their own ticket activity booklet that doubles as an easy bulletin board display)
• Ticket booklet cover template
• My Favourite Part of the Story page (2 options)
• Polar Express Hot Chocolate & Treats page
• Out the Window page
• The First Gift of Christmas page
• The Polar Express Story Sequencing (cut & paste activity)
• UFLI heart words & silly words colouring activity
• Rhyming pairs colouring activity
• Story-themed word search
• Maze
• Header & Footer templates for craft display options
• Answer keys

* BONUS! Christmas activity pages:

• Dot to Dot Express (connect the dots worksheet, 2 options – one with fine-motor strength-building hole-punching)
• Hot Chocolate (scrambled Christmas vocabulary words, 2 options)

* Answer keys

* US Spelling for applicable booklet pages

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⚠️ Looking for a specific book or want them ALL?! ⬇

• 12 Days of Christmas
• Frosty the Snowman
• Mr. Willowby’s Christmas Tree
• How The Grinch Stole Christmas
• Gingerbread Baby
• Snowmen at Christmas
• Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
• Pick a Pine Tree
• Jolly Old Santa Claus
• Christmas Trolls
• The Night Before Christmas
• 12 Days of Read Alouds GROWING BUNDLE

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☀️ LET’S KEEP THE FUN GOIN’ ⬇️

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