Christmas Activities Video Bundle: Holiday Mystery, Escape Room, & Toy Making

Christmas Activities Video Bundle: Holiday Mystery, Escape Room, & Toy Making: Use these three engaging Christmas activities to keep your students totally focused in December while also covering important ELA skills, incorporating creative thinking, and improving problem-solving skills. These Christmas activities are sure to engage even your most reluctant students!

The best part is that each activity comes with a hand-drawn, custom video, created by the talented John Spencer, that introduces the activities to hook students in! Watch the preview video above to get a sneak peek of the videos included and download the preview to get a closer look at the activity handouts, organizers, puzzles, stations, and more.

What's included in the Christmas Activities Video Bundle?

➡️ The Reindeer Games Classroom Escape Room Challenge: Students will compete in physical, problem-solving, and linguistic skills challenges. This is not just a competition, it is also a job interview; the winning group gets to be the next team of reindeer trainers! Because Santa is such a grammar nerd, students will also have to complete some ELA-related tasks like figurative language, parts of speech, spelling and more! Students will solve puzzles, riddles, and ELA skills-based games to try to become Santa's group of reindeer trainers! Here is how it works:

• Students watch a video that introduces the reindeer games back story. Then, students receive a letter inviting them to the annual Reindeer Games in the North Pole.
• They will compete in physical, problem-solving, and linguistic skills challenges. This is not just a competition, it is also a job interview; the winning group gets to be the next team of reindeer trainers! Because Santa is such a grammar nerd, students will also have to complete some ELA-related tasks to win. Students should have a basic understanding of parts of speech as well as figurative language (simile, metaphor, hyperbole, personification, alliteration, pun, oxymoron, onomatopoeia, idiom).
• Students use a response booklet to record their answers to the puzzles/riddles as they circulate the room to different stations.

➡️ Who Kidnapped Dasher? Christmas Mystery Activity: In this activity, students will take on the role of detective to solve the mystery of a kidnapped reindeer. Students must circulate the room in groups finding clues and solving ELA tasks to reveal information about the suspects, locations, and methods of the crime to ultimately find Dasher! Use this engaging Christmas mystery activity to assess your students' understanding of basic ELA skills like spelling, homophones, punctuation, figurative language, and parts of speech, while trying to solve the mystery of who kidnapped Dasher! Here is how it works:

• Students watch a hand-drawn video that tells the back story of Dasher's disappearance and goes through each of the possible suspects, locations, and motives! This video is highly engaging and will hook your students immediately. Watch the video preview on the product page to get a sneak peek.
• Students circulate the room in groups trying to find the hidden cards. When they find them, they must solve ELA-related tasks to reveal clues to help them solve the mystery.
• Students keep track of their work in their detective booklet! Once they feel they have figured out the suspect, location, and method, they yell out, "We have solved the mystery!" Was it Fred Frosty in the stable with a carrot and net? Or, perhaps it was Gina Gingerbread at the cocoa station trapping Dasher in Santa's gift bag!

➡️ Santa' Elf Toy-Making Challenge: Use this engaging Christmas-themed team-building activity as a way to improve divergent thinking, problem-solving, teamwork, and creative writing. In this Christmas activity, students will take on the role of Santa's elves the week after Christmas. The elves' magic dust is depleted and they are bored with nothing to do! They decide to develop a new toy for elves to play with made out of leftover holiday materials. Students must work together in groups to develop a new toy made from wrapping paper, wrapping paper rolls, bags, tissue paper, tape, and a mystery supply item of their choice. Here is how it works:

• Students watch a hand-drawn video that introduces the activity. This video is highly engaging and will hook your students immediately. You can watch the video preview on the product page to get a sneak peek.
• Students will use the instructions, graphic organizers, and templates to plan out what toy they want to create. Students will engage in a bit of nostalgia as they think back to their favorite childhood toys.
• Students work together to develop and make this toy! They can get into the holiday spirit while using the skills of team-work and collaboration.
• Students write a narrative from the perspective of the elves playing with the toy. This will get their imaginations going, allow them to practice their writing skills, and also allow them to have some fun and get creative.

What Teachers Are Saying About the Christmas Activities Video Bundle?

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Loved, loved, loved, loved this!!!! Sneaky learning is the best - had a student ask what they really learned, because it was too fun to be school. You should have seen his face when we talked about all of the skills the students used.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ My students loved these projects. I do as well! Everything I need is included and it keeps the kids engaged and allows them to review English skills. I look forward to using more of your activities!

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This was the perfect resource for a fun and engaging review before Christmas break! The students stayed on task and focused the entire time! They really enjoyed solving the clues and completing the activities! It was a lifesaver!

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