Screen-Free Christmas Activities for Kids at Home
Updated : 2026-10-24
The two weeks of school holidays can feel long. These activities need little more than paper, scissors and a kitchen.
Quiet activities (great before dinner)
- Word searches and mazes — print a few and keep them in a folder.
- Colouring pages and dot-to-dots.
- Writing a letter to Santa or a thank-you card.
- Spot-the-difference and odd-one-out puzzles.
Making things
- Paper snowflakes: fold a square three times, cut shapes, unfold.
- Salt-dough ornaments (2 cups flour, 1 cup salt, about 1 cup water; bake low until hard).
- Pinecone decorations with ribbon.
- A paper-chain countdown to Christmas Eve.
Moving activities
- Freeze dance to Christmas songs.
- Indoor snowball fight with balled-up socks.
- A treasure hunt with clue cards around the house.
- A frosty nature walk to collect sticks and leaves for a wreath.
In the kitchen
- Decorate biscuits with icing.
- Make reindeer food with oats for the garden (no glitter — it harms birds).
- Build a gingerbread house from biscuits and icing.
Everything in one PDF: Kids' Christmas Activity Pack (ages 4–9).
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