December is a great time to see the wonder in your student’s eyes. They’re excited for the holidays, they’re chasing snowflakes with their tongues at recess, and it’s a perfect opportunity to add some Christmas cheer to your writing plans. Especially for you, the tired teacher who just wants to make it through to the first day of Christmas break. Here are 5 Christmas writing prompts that will make your students jolly and will help you survive December!
Christmas Writing Ideas To Get Your Students Excited
When you’re planning any kind of writing activities in December, there is no shortage of exciting topics that will motivate your students to write. They’re so excited about Christmas. Also, they’re old enough now to start remembering Christmas traditions. Do you remember the first time you watched “A Christmas Story?” And then we watch it every year for 24 hours now? Even a silly tradition like a movie marathon is exciting for them.
Let’s capitalize on that excitement and plan some fun writing activities. Christmas is a great way to introduce different writing skills and genres. There are so many different types of writing you can do, from having your students write a letter to Santa Clause, to writing a poem about snow, or writing a narrative about getting a brand new winter coat.
5 New Christmas Writing Prompts
Even the best teacher is experiencing the December brain-fog. It’s hard to come up with fun things for your students to do when you’re THIS tired. So here are 5 Christmas writing prompts to add to your lesson plans. (And if you read to the bottom, you’ll find where you can get 20 more Christmas prompts PLUS a free set of Christmas paper.)
Create Your Own Christmas Ornament
If you could create your own Christmas ornament, what would it look like and why? Christmas ornaments are pretty sentimental in my family, so this is a great writing prompt for your students to think and write creatively, but also put some thought into what’s important about a Christmas ornament.
Write A Letter To Rudolph
Write a letter to Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. Tell him thank you for guiding Santa’s sleigh. Kids really relate to Rudolph, this is a great way to teach a diversity lesson.
By writing to Rudolph to tell him you admire him, your students will learn the value of embracing uniqueness and differences. Rudolph’s story teaches us that our individual strengths and qualities can be our greatest assets, even when faced with challenges.
Pretend You Are A Snowflake On Christmas Eve
Imagine you are a snowflake falling from the sky on Christmas Eve. Describe your journey from the clouds to the ground. Will the snowflake fly past Santa’s sleigh? Will it land in a tree? Will they catch it on their tongue? Most importantly, will it be a white Christmas?
It’s fun when your students can use imagery and personification, and this is a perfect way to practice these writing skills.
Write About A Mischievous Elf
Create a story about an elf who accidentally causes some holiday mischief in Santa’s workshop. What does he do? Does he knock over all the toys? Does he lose his hammer everyday? How does the elf fix the situation?
This is a fun Christmas writing prompt to use for an interactive writing lesson you do with your class. Your students might have a lot of different ideas to pull together for a class story. For more on interactive writing with your students, read this article.
What Does Santa Write In His Diary?
Write a diary entry from the perspective of Santa Claus. Describe how he is feeling about the big night. Is he nervous? Excited? This Christmas writing prompt is a good opportunity to have a quick minilesson about adjectives.
Let’s Publish Your Great Christmas Writing!
So now that you have all these great Christmas writing prompts, let’s talk about publishing them! What better gift to send home with your students than cute and personal Christmas writing they can hang on their refrigerator?
This FREE set of Christmas writing paper will not only provide you what you need to publish your students amazing Christmas writing, it’s going to give you 20 MORE Christmas writing prompts. So with the Christmas paper, plus the christmas story prompts from this article, you’ll have 25 christmas writing ideas to help you survive December
What You’ll Get With The Christmas Writing Paper
Besides the 20 Christmas writing prompts you’ll get 36 different types of cute Christmas writing paper that has:
- Regular lines or primary dotted lines for your different writers.
- Room for a picture or a full page of lines for students to illustrate their writing.
- List writing: Great for differentiation or moments when you just have a few moments to write.
- Christmas writing craft: Use these Christmas writing prompts along with the holiday mug writing page. Add it to some green or red construction paper and glue marshmallows to the top for a festive writing craft.
- Christmas teacher notes: Students love when you leave them little notes. These notes from your teacher have super cute Christmas pictures. Your students will love receiving these from you.
Get It Here
Here is where you’ll download the FREE set of Christmas writing paper along with the 20 Christmas writing prompts. I hope your students love them, and I hope it helps you survive teaching in the month of December
