7 CHRISTMAS PUZZLES AND GAMES, Digital and Interactive Activities

NO PREP Christmas Puzzles and Games to practise vocabulary, spelling, prepositions of place, speaking and reading.
These interactive games and puzzles promote observation, problem solving and cooperative learning.

The digital games and puzzles can be as competitive or as cooperative as you decide, depending on your students’ level and the type of atmosphere you want to create.

When you buy this resource, you get access to a website with 7 interactive puzzles and games joined together by this storyline:

“It’s the night before Christmas, and Santa still has a lot of jobs to do! Can you help him? Follow the links, or scroll down to find 7 puzzles and games to help Santa prepare for Christmas Eve!”

Puzzles and games will students solve:

1. Searching for Santa: Guess Who-style activity - Find the real Santa. Physical description, reading, speaking and observation.
2. Melting Snowman: Hangman-style game - Guess 5 words related to Christmas and save the melting Snowman. Vocabulary, spelling, cooperative learning.
3. Christmas crossword: Vocabulary, spelling, reading.
4. Order the reindeer: read Santa’s notes and help him order the reindeer. Reading, prepositions of place, problem-solving, memory.
5. Decorating the tree: Spot the differences between the Christmas trees. Observation, speaking, vocabulary, prepositions of place, picture description.
6. **Santa’s spelling: **read Santa’s letter and correct the mistakes. Reading, spelling, vocabulary, writing.
7. **Jigsaw toy test: **students help the elves perform a toy test of a jigsaw. Cooperative learning, observation, picture description.

If you wish, you can play the games as an Escape Room, encouraging students to complete all the activities in a specific time.

Students can also choose to do the “jobs” in the order they appear or they can click on the links on the right that will take them to the puzzles and games they are interested in. Alternatively, you can decide to split the students into groups and assign different puzzles and games to each group. You can also solve them together by projecting them for everyone to see.

We’re experienced language teachers and we have created these resources to be appropriate for ESL, EFL learners of A2 to B2 level as well.

Merry Christmas and enjoy the digital games and puzzles!