Christmas Literacy Centers for Kindergarten | Morning Tubs / Bins

• Christmas write & wipe alphabet

To prepare the cards for use in a write and wipe center, print, laminate them, and then cut them apart. The intention of this activity is for children to practice correct letter formation with a dry-erase marker. The cards can be kept in a book-like format by making a hole in the top left corner and securing together with a key ring or a pipe-cleaner.

• Missing letters: Christmas ornaments

To prepare the cards for use, print, laminate and cut apart. Children are required to identify the missing letter and place it in the empty box.

• Christmas clip the beginning sound

Print, laminate and cut out the picture cards. The aim of this activity is for children to correctly identify the beginning sound of each picture and to clip a clothes peg to show their answer. Alternatively, children can use dry-erase markers to color the correct beginning sound.

• Christmas clip the syllables

To prepare this activity for use, print the cards, laminate them and then cut them apart. Household pegs, or other small clipping items such as unused hair clips or paper clips, can be used for this activity. The aim is for children to identify the number of syllables in each word.

• Christmas tree ornaments word family sort

To prepare this activity, print, laminate and cut out the sorting tree mats and ornament picture cards. The aim is for children to identify the ending for each word and sort it to the correct word family tree.

• Christmas stocking CVC words scramble

You will need to provide children with magnetic or Scrabble letter tiles for this activity.
To prepare this activity for use, print the Christmas stocking cards, laminate them and then cut them out. The aim of this activity is for children to collect the letter tiles shown on each card and arrange them to build the word for each picture.

• Christmas reindeer spin and rhyme

You will need to supply children with a paper clip and a pencil to make a spinner. Children being by laying out in a row the red header cards. They spin the pencil spinner on the reindeer spinning card and read the word where it stops. Children then find a matching rhyming picture and place it under the brown card it rhymes with.

• Santa’s sight words list scramble (Pre-Primer and Primer Dolch Words)

You will need to provide children with magnetic or Scrabble letter tiles for this activity.
To prepare this activity for use, print the lists, laminate them for durability and then cut them out. The aim of this activity is for children unscramble the letters on each card to make a sight word from the Dolch Pre-Primer or Primer list. Once a sight word has been built, they record it on the page included.

• Christmas sentence match

Print the sentence strips and picture cards and then laminate them for durability. Cut along the dotted lines to separate them. The aim is for children to read the sentence and then find the matching picture.

• Christmas write the room

To prepare this activity, print, laminate and cut out all the vocabulary cards. Place the cards randomly around the room. Provide your children with a clip board with the recording page/s. The aim is for children to find the picture cards and write the word next to the matching picture on their recording page.

• Label the Christmas picture

Print and laminate the picture cards and labels. Attach velcro dots to the back of labels and empty boxes on the picture cards. The aim of this activity is for children to label the pictures by placing the correct word in the empty boxes.

Happy Teaching 🙂