Use these Christmas word cards to practice early literacy concepts with your students. Be sure to check out the rest of my free preschool printables once you’re done here.
You can pair the printable word sheets with your favorite alphabet manipulatives. We use them with letter tiles, but you can use magnetic letters or even homemade letters.
This simple Christmas literacy printable can be used multiple ways, too. Lots of hands-on learning opportunities for preschool and kindergarten kids.
Related: Christmas Activities for Preschoolers
I like to use a wide variety of strategies to teach my preschoolers about letters. One activity they usually enjoy are simple word cards. Since we’re heading into the holidays, I decided to put together a set of free printable Christmas letter tile sheets. I will be using them with my pre-k kiddos, and I thought you might like them too!
Christmas Word Cards
I enjoy using fun clipart when I make hands-on printables for my classroom. One of my favorites, for over 10 years, is D.J. Inkers. I was given a free copy of their Jolly Holly Days clipart in exchange. Honestly, though, I would have bought it anyway. Needless to say, the words and opinions are all my own.
I put together 20 pages of printable Christmas words for use with letter tiles. Each has a colorful picture prompt, as well as the matching word in a grid. The grid allows children to see each individual letter and shows them where to place the letter tiles.
Related: Christmas Popsicle Stick Crafts
About half of the sheets are secular, including things like ‘wreath’, ‘Santa’, and ‘reindeer’. The others are religious, including ‘Jesus’, ‘Nativity’, ‘wise man’, etc. This way, you can choose the Christmas words that work best for your students.
How to Prep the Christmas Letter Tile Pages
It doesn’t take much to get the Christmas word cards ready for use. I have to admit, I love printables that can be used a variety of ways AND are simple to prep!
Start off by gathering your supplies. Here’s what we used:
- Christmas letter tile printable (get at the bottom of this post)
- Laminator
- Letter tiles
You don’t have to use the exact same items I do. Here are some alternatives:
- Dry erase pockets
- Magnetic letters
- Scrabble tiles
- Homemade letter manipulatives
Print out the letter tiles sheets you’d like to use. I suggest laminating the sheets, as they’re sturdier and last a lot longer that way. You can put them in dry erase pockets instead if that’s your preference.
Once the papers are ready, grab the letter tiles and some kiddos. If you don’t have letter tiles, magnetic letters, Scrabble tiles, or homemade letter tiles would work just as well!
How to Use the Christmas Word Cards
Depending on the needs of the children, you can use the letter tile cards a variety of ways:
- Have the child choose one word, then place the appropriate letter tiles out by the paper. Talk the kiddo through matching the letters appropriately. Talk about the letter name and the sound it makes.
- Set out all of the letter tiles on a table, along with the letter tile papers. Allow the children to complete this activity individually or in small groups.
- Place some of the word cards in the writing center. The children can make up their own Christmas stories to write, using the word cards as a reference.
- Pair the papers with a Christmas-themed sensory bin. Add the letter tiles to the sensory bin. The kids can hunt through the sensory materials to find letters for the Christmas words.
Would your kiddos like these printable Christmas word cards? How will you use them in the classroom?
More Christmas Printables for Preschoolers
If you and your students love the Christmas word cards, you might also enjoy these printables:
- Christmas Lights Printable Book
- Alphabet Christmas Tree
- Christmas Calendar Numbers
- Ornament Roll and Cover Mats
- Christmas Five Senses Book
- Christmas Color By Code
Printable Christmas Resources
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Christmas Books for Preschool
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Here are some fun Christmas books to read with your preschoolers during the holidays (I may get commissions for purchases made through links in this post):
Free Printable Christmas Word Cards
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Happy Merry Days! Love your site! The busy bees in my home would love the clipart. Being a kindergarten teacher and now a stay at home mommy, we love dj inkers too!! Great learning tools for developing concepts of print and letter sound association. Hands-on fun for my five year old, three year old and even silly fun for my nine year old. Thanks a bunch for your fun website! Smiles….Julia
Thanks so much for the kind words – I hope your kiddos enjoy using the word cards this Christmas! 🙂
Ohh Thanks so much for sharing! Love this! I am a preschool teacher and my three/ soon to be four year olds would love these!! 🙂
Can’t wait to use the word cards in my PreK classroom! Thank you!
Thank you for posting I have been looking for good clip art and word cards. Would love to win 🙂
Wow, I’d love to win this clipart! The children I work with would love the bits and pieces I could make with it!
Thanks for the opportunity 😀
Early childhood teacher here too! I’m enjoying your site and thank you for sharing. 🙂
I am a prek teacher and my kiddos would love the Xmas tiles. I love cute fonts too! The cd of fonts would be a dream come true!
I can’t wait to use these. They look awesome! Would live to win.
Thanks! Happy Holidays!
Thanks for sharing all these great materials! Truly appreciated!
I’m getting a bit addicted to clip art. 🙂 Love this resource of letter tile sheets.
I have always loved DJInkers. I go way back to rubber stamping days with her. I love the fonts on this set. I used to own this CD when it first came out. now, 3 or 4 computers later, I would really like to have it to use again on worksheets, posters, as well in my scrap booking and card making.
I love this site and use the materials often!
Your resources are a God-send! These Christmas Tile Sheets will entice and challenge my pre-K students! I love making educational materials for my class so this clip art would make my life much easier!
Thanks for the letter tiles sheets, I’m sure the kiddos will love them! I’d love to win the DJ Inkers Jolly Holly Days Clip Art CD!
Thank you for the letter tile activity! My students will LOVE doing this 🙂 I am learning how to use clip art for my students’ literacy and math activities and would love to have some new clip art! DJ Inkers has adorable clip art 🙂 Merry Christmas!
MY 3, 4, & 5 YEAR OLD CLASS WILL LOVE THIS WORK! THANKS SO MUCH FOR MAKING IT AVAILABLE TO US!
Hello. Thank you so much for the opportunity to win at this drawing. After being a nanny for 3 1/2 yrs, I became a teacher to 2 & 3 year olds in June & the CD would come in handy for building my teaching inventory.
Thank you so much for the fun Christmas activity! Can’t wait to use these with my Title kids. I love D.J. Inkers and have several of their CDs already. I use their clipart in many activities I’ve made for my reading kiddos.
What a fun way to explore Christmas words!
My children in my classroom love the letter tile sheets. We love the different clip art!
Thank you for such beautiful artwork. I am a preschool teacher and I think my class will love using these letter tiles to make their favorite Christmas words.
So glad that your kids will find these helpful! 🙂