Twas The Night Before Christmas Activities & Crafts: SEL Stocking Writing Craft

Celebrate December and the approaching winter break with holiday season read aloud activities, featuring a mad libs style fill-in-the-blanks activity, interactive slideshow and stocking 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 Night Before Christmas originally written by Clement-Clark Moore & illustrated by either Jan Brett or Charles Santore 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

* ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas Silly Story

• Activity explanation (a mad-libs style fill-in-the-blanks activity that will have your class giggling and not even knowing that they’re practicing grammar skills with nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs!)
• Story template (3 pages)

* Away to the Window!

• Activity explanation (variations!)
• Girl window template
• Boy window template
• Alternate window template (for craft variation)
• Slide template

GrateFULL Stocking Craft

• Activity explanation (this activity gets students thinking less about their wish list and more about their have lists. They write a list or draw things they’re thankful for then, roll it up, and slide it into the stocking pocket they will create)
• list template (2 options)
• stocking templates (2 parts)

* BONUS! Christmas activity pages:

• Christmas Crossword (a picture crossword activity, 2 options: with or without a written word bank)
• On Christmas (2 writing prompt options: What is your favourite family tradition at Christmas? and What is your favourite thing about Christmas?)
• Gifts Galore! (cut & paste number representation worksheet; numeral, number word, ten-frame, talley, picture, and finger counting)

* Answer keys

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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
• The Polar Express
• Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
• Pick a Pine Tree
• Jolly Old Santa Claus
• Christmas Trolls
• 12 Days of Read Alouds GROWING BUNDLE

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