Christmas School for Alternate Homeschool Curriculum in December

December is the perfect time to put your regular homeschool curriculum aside and do something completely new and fresh for a month or so! Yes, it’s time for Christmas School!

A few years ago I did this for the first time and wrote all about how to replace your regular elementary curriculum with holiday-themed curriculum in December. It was a blast! We did a great advent Bible study, Bible journaling, crafts, science experiments and winter-themed nature study, fun read-alouds, 15-minute music lessons about Christmas songs, and learned about Christmas traditions around the world.

Today I’m sharing some new Christmas School resources–and they’re all on sale! Your kids will still be learning, and learning A LOT. But, it will feel relaxing and gentle, which is perfect during a busy, stressful holiday season.

And, these curriculum ideas are also easy to implement!

Download a free lesson plan below!

Disclosure: I get commissions for purchases made through affiliate links in this post.

List of Christmas School Resources

Art Resources

How To Create Digital Christmas Gifts

Price: $20 

How to Create Digital Christmas Gifts is a great web-based unit study for students who don’t have money to buy gifts. They may not have considered making digital gifts that are easy to ship (send with a click!) and don’t need supplies. As a bonus, students will learn valuable techie skills.

• Module 1: Creating games in Scratch (this will teach simple coding so that they can create a fun game
• Module 2: Creating a compendium of games (this will cover creating short games and activities eg crossword puzzles and online jigsaw puzzles that can be bundled together as a gift)
• Module 3:  Creating a “Choose Your Own Adventure” story
• Module 4:  Creating an online board game
• Bonus module: How to create gift certificates and virtual cards

Recommended age: 5th-12th grade

You will have access to this unit study for as long as you want!

LitARTure: A Christmas Carol art projects

Price: $7.00  

Music Resources

Spanish-English Christmas Carols

Price: $5 

Celebrate Christmas and practice your Spanish foreign language simultaneously!  These 14 Christmas carols are beautifully printed in both Spanish and English – to help with language learning and for your caroling pleasure.  {29 pages}

Christmas Carols Made Easy beginning singing lessons online course

Price: $37 

Even if you haven’t done any of Singing Made Easy yet, you can start right in with Christmas Carols Made Easy!

How to use:

There are 11 songs for ages 9 and up, and each lesson includes the song in

• sheet music
• vocal demonstration audio
• vocal demonstration video
• instrument accompaniment audio
• coloring sheets

Additional resources include two vocal warm-ups in audio and six in video.

Bonus resources include:

• 5 Christmas songs from Singing Made Easy Levels 1-5 (sheet music, audios, and videos). The Level 1 song is for ages 3 and up!
• Christmas Song Lyric Sheets (for 14 of the most popular Christmas carols and songs)
• “Twelve Days of Christmas” pages (12 in full color and 12 in black and white so kids can color them). These are great for ages 3 and up.
• “Twelve Days of Christmas” Sing-Along video with Gena and her daughter!

Just pick a song and start learning it! It’s ok to skip around; there is no need to start with the first song. There are so many, you probably won’t do all in one Christmas season, so come back to this course again and again in the future. You have lifetime access to it.

Some special features of this program:

• There are songs for a wide variety of skill levels and ages.
• Some songs (but not all) include harmony parts, so you’ll want to find a partner or a group to sing with.
• There are some songs in foreign languages: two in Spanish, one in German, one in Italian, and two in French!

What Christmas songs will you learn?

• Kling, Glöckchen (Ring, Little Bells), Germany (in German)
• King Jesus Hath a Garden, Holland
• The Son of Mary (El Noi de la Mare), Catalonian Carol, Spain

• Campana Sobre Campana (Bells over Bethlehem) Andalucian Carol, Spain (in Spanish)

• Song of the Wise Men, Puerto Rico

• The Holly and the Ivy, England

• Rise Up, Shepherd, and Follow, America

• Il est né, le divin Enfant (He is Born, the Holy Child), France (in French)

• Un Flambeau, Jeanette, Isabelle (Bring a Torch, Jeannette, Isabella), France (in French)
• What Child is This? England
• Ding Dong! Merrily on High, France

Music of Christmas online course

Price: $47

There are three year’s worth of Christmas music lessons included in this one course!

1. Year 1: Christmas Music Lessons (15 lessons)
2. Year 2: Christmas Traditions From Around the World (12 lessons)
3. Year 3: Traditional Lessons & Carols (9 lessons)

Each lesson will only take 15 minutes, because who has more time than that during the busy holiday season?

Christmas Songs and Music Included in the Course:

• White Christmas
• The Nutcracker
• Joy to the World
• O Holy Night
• Silver Bells
• Sleigh Ride
• Mary, Did You Know?
• Frosty the Snowman
• In the Bleak Midwinter
• Handel and his “Messiah”
• Amahl and the Night Visitors
• Silent Night
• Carol of the Bells
• Santa Lucia
• Epiphany/Day of the Kings

Christmas Printable Set

Price: $5 

Christmas Printable Set: Christmas ABCs, Christmas Song Lyrics, and The Twelve Days of Christmas!

Your younger students will LOVE this fun Christmas-themed printable pack!

Includes: Christmas Elves ABC Printable Pack

The 26-page printable pack has one page for each letter of the alphabet. Each page contains traceable capital and lower-case letters, a Christmas-themed word that starts with that letter, and a counting activity!

There are unique graphics on every page related to the Christmas words to keep your little one interested throughout the entire alphabet.The printable pack is perfect for ages preschool thru 2nd grade, or even out of that age range depending on the handwriting abilities of your child.

Includes: Christmas Song Lyric Sheets and The Twelve Days of Christmas

Use this 38-page printable pack to sing Christmas songs with your students or family! There are 14 lyric pages for Christmas songs such as “Silent Night,” “Jingle Bells,” and “Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer.” You’ll also find 12 “The Twelve Days of Christmas” pages in color to hold up while you sing each verse. Kids love doing this! Also included are 12 “The Twelve Days of Christmas” pages to color.

Literature Resources

A Christmas Carol Online Book Club for Teens/High School

Price: $20

A Christmas Carol Online Book Club for Middle School

Price: $20 

Have fun learning language arts with our A Christmas Carol Online Book Club!

This online literary guides have everything you need to study the book: vocabulary, grammar, rabbit trails, hands-on projects, and a writing project. It’s perfect for holiday language arts!

LitARTure: A Christmas Carol art project

Price: $7.00 

Unit Study Resources (Recipes, Crafts, Decorations, Traditions, 

Home for the Holidays Unit Studies, Crafts, and Recipes

Price: $10

Homeschool through the holidays with this holiday bundle that includes three full-length history-based holiday unit studies plus several extra crafts and activities!  {42 pages}

Contents

• A New Advent Tradition
• Making a Family Heirloom
• Nutcracker Unit Study
• Candy Cane Crafts
• Spiced Ornaments
• RACK Baking Treats
• A 1940s Christmas
• Easy Christmas Cookies
• Vintage Decor
• A Victorian Age Christmas
• Christmas in England

The 12 Days of Christmas School online course

Price: $25  

Press pause on all the traditional curriculum for an easy to implement and fun Christmas curriculum for homeschoolers!

The 12 Days of Christmas curriculum includes:

• Language Arts
• Science
• Nature Study
• Math
• Art
• Music, and
• World Cultures

With over 12 days of lessons, this is the perfect curriculum for those crazy days between the holidays of Thanksgiving and Christmas. Give your elementary student a full curriculum for the holidays!

Math and Science

Christmas Science Projects: Based on Children’s Books

Price: $7    

This downloadable PDF includes 4 science projects in the fields of chemistry, physics, biology, and engineering. Each experiment ties in with a popular children’s Christmas picture book. Complete supply lists and step-by-step directions make it easy to complete the projects. Each project includes a printable observation chart to help kids make observations, collect data, and record their experiment results. Each experiment also includes a brief explanation of some of the science concepts that kids will be learning about. Bonus extension activities are included for 2 of the experiments.

12 Days of Christmas Math Games and Activities

Price:  $9 

This huge 200+ page PDF is stuffed with hands-on activities and printables to complete 12 fun Christmas themed math lessons! Each day includes complete directions and printables, plus bonus tips, extension activities, and worksheets to reinforce the concepts your kids are learning. Harness that Christmas excitement to make homeschooling fun this season with this easy-to-use resource!

These lessons were designed for kids in preschool through 1st grade. Each lesson includes adaptations to customize it for your child’s unique needs- or so that siblings can do the activities together!

Included Activities:

• Day 1: Snowman Addition and Subtraction
  Addition and subtraction facts, Kindergarten
• Day 2: Place Value Snowball Toss
  Place value, 1st Grade
• Day 3: Race to the North Pole
       Counting, Preschool
• Day 4: Christmas Measurement
  Measurement, Preschool
• Day 5: Christmas Reading and Counting
  Reading and Writing numbers and counting, Kindergarten
• Day 6: Graphing with Gift Bows
  Graphing, 1st Grade
• Day 7: Christmas Tree Counting
  One-to-one correspondence, Preschool
• Day 8: Christmas Math Fact Bingo
  Addition and subtraction facts, 1st Grade
• Day 9: Christmas Symmetry Activities
  Symmetry, Kindergarten
• Day 10: Christmas Baking with Fractions
  Fractions, 1st Grade
• Day 11: Feed the Gingerbread Boy
       Shapes, Preschool
• Day 12: Christmas Perimeter and Area
  Perimeter and Area, 1st Grade

A Two-Week Suggested Lesson Plan for Upper Elementary

My two youngest kids are in 4th and 6th grades this year, and here is what we’ll be doing for Christmas School. Feel free to copy or adjust the lesson plan for your own needs!

Week 1:

Monday~

• Read A Christmas Carol Stave 1 and do Day 1 activities from A Christmas Carol Online Book Club for Middle School
• Learn about Christmas Traditions from Around the World in Australia from Music in Our Homeschool’s Music of Christmas online course
• Work on a Spanish Christmas Carol from Spanish-English Christmas Carols

Tuesday~

• Read A Christmas Carol Stave 2 and do Day 2 activities from A Christmas Carol Online Book Club for Middle School
• Learn about Christmas Traditions from Around the World in China from Music in Our Homeschool’s Music of Christmas online course
• Work on a Spanish Christmas Carol from Spanish-English Christmas Carols

Wednesday~

• Read A Christmas Carol Stave 3 and do Day 3 activities from A Christmas Carol Online Book Club for Middle School
• Learn about Christmas Traditions from Around the World in Russia from Music in Our Homeschool’s Music of Christmas online course
• Work on a Spanish Christmas Carol from Spanish-English Christmas Carols

Thursday~

• Read A Christmas Carol Stave 4 and do Day 4 activities from A Christmas Carol Online Book Club for Middle School
• Learn about Christmas Traditions from Around the World in Scotland from A Christmas Carol Online Book Club for Middle School
• Work on a Spanish Christmas Carol from Spanish-English Christmas Carols

Friday~

• Read A Christmas Carol Stave 5 and do Day 5 activities from A Christmas Carol Online Book Club for Middle School
• Do LitARTure: A Christmas Carol art project from Masterpiece Society,
• Work on a project from How To Create Digital Christmas Gifts –Create an Online Board Game– from Funda Funda.

Week 2:

Monday~

• Read a Christmas book and do a corresponding science experiment from Christmas Science Projects: Based on Children’s Books
• Learn about Christmas Traditions from Around the World in Germany from A Christmas Carol Online Book Club for Middle School

Tuesday~

• Read a Christmas book and do a corresponding science experiment from Christmas Science Projects: Based on Children’s Books
• Learn about Christmas Traditions from Around the World in Italy from A Christmas Carol Online Book Club for Middle School

Wednesday~

• Read a Christmas book and do a corresponding science experiment from Christmas Science Projects: Based on Children’s Books
• Learn about Christmas Traditions from Around the World in Spain from A Christmas Carol Online Book Club for Middle School

Thursday~

• Read a Christmas book and do a corresponding science experiment from Christmas Science Projects: Based on Children’s Books
• Learn about Christmas Traditions from Around the World in Sweden from A Christmas Carol Online Book Club for Middle School

Friday~

• Choose your own art project from the Masterpiece Society Winter Wonderland Mixed Media Workshop

Looking for another Lesson Plan option?

Get some Free Christmas School Lesson Plans using these resources here!

Nutcracker Fun:

• Nutcracker printable pack

Related Posts:

Crafty Kids Christmas Camp ~ How to Plan and Implement

Putting CHRIST in Christmas

Scrabble Tile Christmas Ornament Tutorial

Christmas Tree Handprint Ornament Craft

Christmas Around the World Online Unit Study

Homeschool Enrichment Ideas for the Christmas Season

“X” is for Xylography–Making Homemade Christmas Cards

Operation Christmas Child- A Peek into our Boxes

Decoupage Photo Christmas Ornaments

Family Nest Holiday Planner: How to Get Organized for the Holidays

Poetry Teatime Holiday Edition with Holiday Music Appreciation

How to Replace Your Regular Elementary Curriculum With Holiday-Themed Curriculum in December