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Christmas activities for children
Get into the festive spirit with our Christmas activities, including lots of crafty ideas for making decorations!
Summer games and activities
Find activity ideas and book recommendations to keep the kids busy this summer.
Christmas activities for 5–7 year olds
Whatever the weather this Christmas, you’ll find an activity here to suit your child. Wrap up warm and go out for a winter scavenger hunt, or stay inside and play party games with our range of festive activity ideas.
Roald Dahl: Redunculous recipes
The BFG has a surplus of snozzcumbers! Can you create a new recipe to help him use them up?
Roald Dahl: GIANT crossword
Find all the gobblefunk words in this Roald Dahl crossword.
Roald Dahl: Answer sheet
Answers to the Roald Dahl Thesaurus activity sheets.
Roald Dahl: Hidden creatures
Circle the names of all the extra-usual creatures from Roald Dahl’s stories.
Roald Dahl: Odd word out
Can you spot the odd one out in these lists of related words?
Roald Dahl: Propsposterous plants
Can you invent your own extra-usual tree, plant or flower?
Roald Dahl: What do you call…?
Choose the correct word to match each of the descriptions.
Roald Dahl: Spliffling speech
Can you fill in each of the blanks with a synonym of ‘said’?
Roald Dahl: Weather for Wonka
Can you predict the weather for Willy Wonka and write a forecast?
Roald Dahl: Guess the origin
Learn about etymology by guessing which words come from which origins.
Oxford School Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar Dictionary: Answer sheet
Answers to the Oxford School Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar Dictionary activity sheets.
Fun Christmas activities for 9–11 year olds
For older children, why not encourage them to use the events of the festive as inspiration for some Christmas creative writing? Or challenge their crafting skills with a range of paper craft activities? Alternatively, they could always knit their own polar pug…
Roald Dahl: Giant wanted
Draw a picture of a murderful giant and label its body parts – from its foulsome teeth to its thirstbloody eyes…
Christmas activities for 7–9 year olds
Looking for homemade gifts to make with your child? Try making your own Christmas cards or a swirling, glittery snow globe with our activity ideas for 7–9 year olds!
Nelson Grammar: Sentences
Year 3 | Age 7–8. Practise using main and subordinate clauses.
Nelson Grammar: Punctuation
Year 6 | Age 10–11. Practise using colons, semi-colons, and dashes.
Nelson Handwriting: Break letters
Year 1 | Age 5–6. Trace and write letters and words, practising break letters.
Nelson Handwriting: Forming double letters
Year 3 | Age 7–8. Trace and write a pattern, letters and words, forming double letters correctly.
Oxford Phonics Spelling Dictionary: Answer sheet
Answers to the Oxford Phonics Spelling Dictionary activity sheets.
Christmas activities for 4–5 year olds
Practise early maths and letter recognition skills with some Christmas colouring in and get lots of car game ideas to keep everyone occupied on long journeys this Christmas.
Bond SATs Skills: Grammar and Punctuation (age 10–11 | Unit 6)
Test your grammar knowledge on subjects like prefixes and the active voice.
Bond SATs Skills: Grammar and Punctuation (age 10–11 | Unit 1)
Test your grammar knowledge on subjects like modal verbs and the present progressive form.
Bond SATs Skills: Grammar and Punctuation (age 9–10 | Unit 10)
Test your grammar knowledge on subjects like tenses, prepositions, and clauses.
Bond SATs Skills: Grammar and Punctuation (age 9–10 | Unit 3)
Test your grammar knowledge on subjects like possessive apostrophes and modal verbs with these.
Bond SATs Skills: Reading Comprehension (age 9–10 | Unit 1)
Read ‘The Cactus Garden’ and answer the questions to practise reading comprehension.
Bond SATs Skills: Reading Comprehension (age 10–11 | Unit 10)
Read ‘The Shepherd Boy Who Called Wolf’ and answer the questions to practise reading comprehension.
Bond SATs Skills: Reading Comprehension (age 10–11 | Unit 2)
Read ‘Rainforests’ and answer the questions to practise reading comprehension.
Bond SATs Skills: Reading Comprehension (age 9–10 | Unit 9)
Read ‘Pirate Attack’ and answer the questions to practise reading comprehension.
Bond SATs Skills: Grammar and punctuation Unit A answers
Check your answers to the ‘Bond SATs Skills: Grammar and punctuation Unit A questions’ worksheet.
Bond SATs Skills: Grammar and punctuation Unit A questions
Practise grammar and punctuation with this worksheet from Bond SATs Skills.
Bond SATs Skills: Reading comprehension Unit A answers
Check your answers to the ‘Bond SATs Skills: Reading comprehension Unit A questions’ worksheet.
Oxford Primary Illustrated Maths Dictionary: Using the dictionary
Answer questions about these common maths terms.
Bond SATs Skills: Grammar and punctuation Unit B questions
Practise grammar and punctuation with this worksheet from Bond SATs Skills.
Bond SATs Skills: Reading comprehension Unit B questions
Practise reading comprehension with this worksheet from Bond SATs Skills.
Colouring in: Isadora’s birthday
Celebrate Isadora’s birthday with this fun birthday-cake colouring sheet.
Bond SATs Skills: Reading comprehension Unit B answers
Check your answers to the ‘Bond SATs Skills: Reading comprehension Unit B questions’ worksheet.
Bond SATs Skills: Spelling and vocabulary Unit A questions
Practise spelling and vocabulary with this worksheet from Bond SATs Skills.
Bond 11+: English comprehension Unit A answers
Check your answers to the ‘Bond 11+: English comprehension Unit A answers’ worksheet.
Bond SATs Skills: Grammar and punctuation Unit B answers
Check your answers to the ‘Bond SATs Skills: Grammar and punctuation Unit B questions’ worksheet.
Bond SATs Skills: Spelling and vocabulary Unit A answers
Check your answers to the ‘Bond SATs Skills: Spelling and vocabulary Unit A questions’ worksheet.
Bond 11+: English comprehension Unit B answers
Check your answers to the ‘Bond 11+: English comprehension Unit B answers’ worksheet.
Bond SATs Skills: Spelling and vocabulary Unit B questions
Practise spelling and vocabulary with this worksheet from Bond SATs Skills.
Bond SATs Skills: Spelling and vocabulary Unit B answers
Check your answers to the ‘Bond SATs Skills: Spelling and vocabulary Unit B questions’ worksheet.
Bond SATs Skills: Reading comprehension Unit A questions
Practise reading comprehension with this worksheet from Bond SATs Skills.
Isadora Moon: Create your own crown!
Create your own crown and be as magical as Isadora Moon!
Dress Up As Isadora Moon and Friends
Our free costume guide has tips on dressing up as Isadora or one of her quirky companions.
How to write a great Christmas story
Five tips on writing a Christmas story, inspired by Christopher Edge’s How To Write Your Best Story Ever!
Good writing: Standard and non-standard English
Practise identifying Standard and Non-Standard English.
At Home with Spelling 2 (age 5–7)
Four activity sheets to practise spelling vowel sounds, ‘ck’ and ‘k’ words, and ‘ow’ words.
Nelson Handwriting: Developing an individual writing style
Year 6 | Age 10–11. Practise adding loops to descenders and joining break letters, to develop an individual handwriting style.
Oxford First Grammar Punctuation and Spelling Dictionary: Answer sheet
Answers to the Oxford First Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling Dictionary activity sheets.
Oxford Primary Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling Dictionary: Answer sheet
Answers to the Oxford Primary Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling Dictionary activity sheets.
Nelson Handwriting: Exclamation mark
Year 3 | Age 7–8. Learn to use the exclamation mark.
Nelson Handwriting: Correct height and size of letters
Year 2 | Age 6–7. Write letters and words, focusing on the correct height and size of letters.
Nelson Handwriting: Fine motor control
Reception | Age 4–5. Develop fine motor control.
Nelson Handwriting: Diagonal joins
Year 2 | Age 6–7. Trace and write a pattern, letters and words, practising the diagonal join.
Nelson Handwriting: Trace letters
Reception | Age 4–5. Trace and write letters: ck.
Nelson Grammar: Homophones
Year 5 | Age 9–10. Practise using the correct homophone in context.
At Home with Handwriting 1 (age 5–7)
Four activity sheets to practise writing letters.
Nelson Handwriting: Joining with the letter s
Year 4 | Age 8–9. Trace and write a pattern, letters and words, practising joining to and from the letter s.
Nelson Handwriting: Trace numbers and words
Reception | Age 4–5. Trace and write numbers and words 1–5.
Nelson Handwriting: Patterns and letters
Year 1 | Age 5–6. Trace and write patterns and Set 1 letters: c o a d g f s q e.
Nelson Handwriting: Joining to the top
Year 2 | Age 6–7. Trace and write a pattern, letters and words, practising joining to the top.
Nelson Handwriting: Descenders
Year 3 | Age 7–8. Trace and write a pattern, letters, words and a sentence, forming descenders accurately.
Nelson Handwriting: Speedwriting
Year 4 | Age 8–9. Trace and write numerals and number words as fast as possible.
Nelson Handwriting: Suffixes and ascenders
Year 5 | Age 9–10. Copy suffixes, and write words containing them, to practise forming ascenders correctly.
Nelson Handwriting: Patterns and slanted writing
Year 5 | Age 9–10. Copy a pattern and write words, practising slanted writing.
Nelson Handwriting: Presentation
Year 6 | Age 10–11. Copy and decorate a certificate, to practise presentation.
Nelson Grammar: Pronouns
Year 4 | Age 8–9. Explore how pronouns can lead to ambiguity.
Nelson Grammar: Doing words
Year 1 | Age 5–6. Practise using verbs in sentences.
Nelson Grammar: Answers
Answers to the activity sheets from Nelson Grammar.
At Home with Punctuation (age 7–9)
Four activity sheets to practise writing sentences, asking questions, and using apostrophes.
At Home with Grammar (age 7–9)
Four activity sheets to practise using pronouns, verbs, and the past tense.
At Home with Maths (age 7–9)
Four activity sheets to practise addition and subtraction, using money, and solving word problems.
Punctuation marks
Practise using the correct punctuation marks in sentences (full stops, question marks, and exclamation marks).
At Home with English (age 7–9)
Build up English skills at the level of words, sentences, and whole texts with these four activity sheets.
At Home with Mental Maths (age 7–9)
Four activity sheets to practise counting, calculating up to 20, fractions, and the 9 and 11 times tables.
At Home with Spelling 1 (age 5–7)
Four activity sheets to practise the alphabet, consonants, syllables, and ‘-er’ endings.
At Home with Phonics (age 5–7)
Read ‘Gran’s Van’ and ‘Tom the Tiger’.
At Home with Handwriting 2 (age 5–7)
Four activity sheets to practise writing with joined up letters and words.
At Home with Maths (age 5–7)
Four activity sheets to practise counting to 10, measuring, shapes, and time.
Nelson Grammar: Opposites
Year 1 | Age 5–6. Use prefixes to create antonyms.
Nelson Grammar: Conjunctions
Year 2 | Age 6–7. Find out how conjunctions join words together.
Bond SATs Skills: Spelling and Vocabulary (age 9–10 | Unit 2)
Practise spelling with these wordsearches and crosswords.
Bond SATs Skills: Spelling and Vocabulary (age 9–10 | Unit 9)
Practise spelling with lots of engaging activities.
Bond SATs Skills: Spelling and Vocabulary (age 10–11 | Unit 1)
Practise spelling with lots of engaging activities.
Bond SATs Skills: Spelling and Vocabulary (age 10–11 | Unit 8)
Practise spelling with lots of engaging activities.
Nelson Comprehension: Answers
Answers to the activity sheets from Nelson Comprehension.
Roald Dahl: Make a marvellous magic potion
Have a go at making your very own magic potion recipe, just like George and his marvellous mixtures or The Grand High Witch and her potent potions!
Nelson Comprehension: Looking at personification
Year 6 | Age 10–11. Read and analyse three poems that use personification.
Nelson Comprehension: The roles of heroes and heroines
Year 5 | Age 9–10. Read and anaylse three texts that involve heros and heroines.
Nelson Comprehension: Exploring stage playscripts
Year 4 | Age 8–9. Read and analyse three playscripts.
Nelson Comprehension: Understanding characters’ feelings
Year 3 | Age 7–8. Read three texts and analyse how they show characters’ feelings.
Recipe: Pippi pancakes
Follow along with this recipe to create scrumptious pancakes just like Pippi’s!
Nelson Comprehension: Finding facts
Year 2 | Age 6–7. Read and anaylse two non-fiction texts.
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