The Christmas traditions shop
Fact-checked printables for KS2 and KS3 classrooms, home learning, quiz nights and families, plus a short list of books and kit. Every purchase helps keep this site free.
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Christmas traditions printables
Fact-checked PDFs in A4 and US Letter, for KS2 and KS3 classrooms, home learning, quiz nights and families.
Christmas Traditions KS2 Topic Pack
Ages 7 to 11, teachers and home educators
Worksheets on where our Christmas customs come from: the word Christmas, Saturnalia, the tree, St Nicholas and Father Christmas, the first card, the cracker, A Christmas Carol and Christmas around the world, with a label-the-tree page, cut-out order and sorting cards, a true-or-false quiz, a word search, a certificate and answers. Every fact sourced.
Christmas Through Time: KS3 Source & Evidence Study
Ages 11 to 14 and GCSE starters
A source-based study of how Christmas changed, from the 1640s ban to the Victorian Christmas: short quoted extracts from Historic England, English Heritage and the V&A (including a line from Henry Cole’s 1843 diary), with inference and chronology tasks, a “when sources disagree” task (who brought the tree? who sent the first card?), a judgement question and a mark-yourself guide.
Christmas Traditions Timeline & Poster Set
Classrooms, libraries, churches and home
Poster pages: a two-page timeline from 336 to 2010, the Christmas tree, St Nicholas, Santa and Befana, the Victorian Christmas, Christmas in the Isle of Man, and Christmas in numbers. Every date sourced.
Christmas Traditions Quiz & Trivia Cards
Teens, adults, quiz nights and families
Sixty cut-out quiz cards on Christmas customs, from Saturnalia and St Nicholas to crackers, carvals and the first royal broadcast, each answer with its source, plus a score sheet and tie-breakers.
Family Christmas Traditions Journal & Story Cards
Families, grandparents and grandchildren
A keepsake journal for recording your own family’s Christmas customs, plus cut-out story cards to ask grandparents and older relatives about Christmases past. With short sourced fact pages on how the tree, cards and crackers began, and pages for photos, drawings and notes.
Christmas Traditions Colouring & Activity Pack
Ages 5 to 9
Colouring pages drawn by us (a Christmas tree, a cracker, a Christmas card, St Nicholas, Befana’s broom, a Manx wren pole and a poinsettia), each with one true fact, plus a maze, spot the difference, design-your-own cracker and answers.
Best valueThe Complete Christmas Traditions Printables Bundle
All six packs plus a bundle guide, A4 and US Letter, in one download. $12.99 instead of $26.94 bought separately.
Free sample
Try before you buy: a free 6-page Christmas traditions printables sample. A4 PDF (255 KB) or US Letter PDF (256 KB).
Books & kit
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Books for kids
- Christmas around the world books for children (affiliate link)Picture books and fact books about how Christmas is kept in different countries.
- Christmas history books for kids (affiliate link)For the KS2 topic. Look for a recent edition.
- A Christmas Carol for children (affiliate link)Retellings of Dickens’s story for younger readers.
Books for teens and adults
- A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (affiliate link)The 1843 story itself, in any edition you like.
- Christmas history books (affiliate link)Overviews of how Christmas customs began and changed.
- Carol books (affiliate link)Words and music for carol singing.
Making and doing
- Make-your-own cracker kits (affiliate link)Snaps, card tubes and space for your own mottoes.
- Colouring pencils (affiliate link)For the colouring pages in our printables.
- Scrapbooks (affiliate link)For a family Christmas traditions journal.