Exploring Christmas traditions in EYFS

Embrace Christmas time with your early years class using these hand-picked resources exploring the Christmas story and typical festive traditions

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Christmas tree, star, biscuits and dried orange, exploring Christmas tranditions resources

Top resources to familiarise younger learners with the Christmas story and festive traditions

It’s hard to believe that yet another calendar year has flown by and that Christmas is just around the corner again. Bring the spirit of Christmas into your early years classroom with these hand-picked lessons and activity ideas, looking at the Christmas story and seasonal customs.

Lesson ideas

The Christmas Story PowerPoint Presentation
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The Christmas Story PowerPoint Presentation

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11 colourful slides retelling the Nativity/Christmas Story. Suitable for Key Stage 1 and lower Key Stage 2. PowerPoint Show and PDF versions included in download. Simpler version of the Christmas Story is also available [The Christmas Story PowerPoint - simple version](https://www.tes.com/t...
Christmas Around the World Powerpoint
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Christmas Around the World Powerpoint

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This powerpoint is illustrated and informative. Children can learn about different cultures and Christmas traditions from around the world. The powerpoint focuses on various countries and how children might celebrate Christmas differently from the UK/US.
Christmas Story | Christmas Nativity | Nativity Activities KS1
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Christmas Story | Christmas Nativity | Nativity Activities KS1

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Christmas Story, Christmas Nativity Story activities and story power point for KS1. Teach children all about the Christmas Story and the birth of Jesus with this power point story and print and go activities. Children will love learning all about the reason why we celebrate Christmas with these en...
The Nativity Story - KS1
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The Nativity Story - KS1

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English Teaching Resources: The Nativity Story - KS1 'The Nativity Story - KS1' has been designed to cover many of the year 1 and 2 curriculum objectives for 'Reading - comprehension' and 'Writing - composition' outlined in the English programme of study. 'The Nativity Story' is a bright and eng...
Early Years Continuous Provision - Christmas
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Early Years Continuous Provision - Christmas

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**Early Years Continuous Provision - Christmas** Suitable for Early Years or Year 1 This scheme of work has been planned to encourage the children to think about both the secular and the spiritual meaning of Christmas. Feel free to lean more towards either way if appropriate. **Part 1 ** Each ...
Christmas Past and Present
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Christmas Past and Present

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Christmas History activity. Simple cut and stick sorting activity. Children must cut out the pictures and decide if they are from Christmas past or Christmas present. Ideal for simple history activity for children aged 5-6 years.

Christmas activities

The Christmas Story - colouring & writing booklets
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The Christmas Story - colouring & writing booklets

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Very simple booklets about the birth of Jesus. We use the first two to practise handwriting (each letter being formed correctly on the board first). The faces are blank so that the children can add their own expressions in other words I can t draw faces!! Book 1 has starting dots to show the c...
Christmas dot to dot worksheet activities
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Christmas dot to dot worksheet activities

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Two simple dot-to-dot activity worksheets with a Christmas theme. One worksheet covers numbers from 1-20 and the second covers numbers from 1-16. Very clear festive images (snowman and a Christmas tree) with bold dots and Sassoon numbers. Also shows a green dot for the starting position and a red...
Trees - 3D Tree
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Trees - 3D Tree

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Make a 3D mini Christmas tree with these templates: print both templates (card is best because it will stand up better), cut them out and slot them together, decorate. Bring the outdoors into your classroom with this inspiring activity from the Woodland Trust's nature detectives website.
Pot Belly Penguin Craft - Winter Craft
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Pot Belly Penguin Craft - Winter Craft

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This **Pot Belly Penguin** craft is really easy to make and its big round 3D tummy is adorably cute! This is lovely as a winter craft or Christmas craft and goes very well with arctic/polar study themes and your favorite penguin storybooks and rhymes. The template comes in three versions: Black a...