Christmas Math Activities and Puzzles
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Bring some Christmas joy to your classroom or party with this collection of free printable Christmas math puzzles and activities.
Keep reading to find a variety of Christmas logic puzzles, crafts, and hands-on puzzles involving tangrams or pentominoes.
Christmas Math Lessons
Christmas Mystery Tangram Coordinate Plane Activity
This Christmas Mystery Tangram Puzzle combines two favorite math activities into one. This printable Christmas puzzle will have students both practicing plotting ordered pairs on the coordinate plane and solving a fun tangram puzzle using the resulting outline from the plotted ordered pairs.
Christmas-Themed Parabola Graph Matching Activity
Students must match the equations of the parabolas with their graphs in order to decorate the tree. What a great task from Math with P. Nik!
Piecewise Function Christmas Tree Graphing
Do your students need some practice graphing piecewise functions? Challenge them to graph a Christmas Tree in Desmos!
Christmas Factor Trees
Your students will be singing “Oh Factor Tree, Oh Factor Tree…” when you get them making their factor trees in the shape of Christmas Trees!
Surface Area and Volume Gingerbread House Project
Carol Anderson shares a fun-looking lesson that involves surface area and volume combined with building gingerbread houses.
Holiday Exponent Problems
Students use their knowledge of exponents to figure out which holiday exponent problems are correct and which are incorrect.
Winter Slope Field Activity
Teaching slope fields in calculus? When students draw in the solution curves, it will create a fun winter themed picture for them to decorate.
Arithmetic Sequences/Series Christmas Decorating Task
Can your students use their knowledge of arithmetic sequences/series to solve a real-world problem about building a Christmas tree display out of handprints?
Desmos Gingerbread House Activity
Natalie McCrady inspires with an activity that involves using equations to graph a gingerbread house in Desmos. After students are done, they create a real-life version complete with candy decorations. How fun!
Christmas Puzzles
Christmas Tree Integer Addition Puzzles
Put your integer skills to the test to find the missing numbers to complete each of these Christmas Tree Integer Addition Puzzles.
Christmas Tree Hidato Puzzles
Have some logic puzzle fun this Christmas season with these free printable Christmas tree shaped hidato puzzles!
Reindeer Pentominoes Puzzle
This reindeer pentominoes puzzle is the second addition to my growing collection of Christmas-themed pentominoes puzzles for the classroom. My students love pentominoes puzzles, and I think your students will love these puzzles as well!
Checkered Ornament Puzzle
Arrange the given pieces to decorate the ornament with a checkered pattern. This puzzle I created a few years ago now is trickier than it might first appear!
Christmas Sudoku Puzzles – 4×4 Puzzles with Christmas Pictures
Children will love solving these 4×4 Christmas sudoku puzzles with pictures.
Christmas Sudoku Puzzles – 6×6 Puzzles with Christmas Words
Can you solve these 6×6 Christmas sudoku puzzles which each feature a different word related to the holiday season?
Penguin Pentominoes Puzzle
Can you arrange a set of twelve pentominoes to form the shape of a penguin?
Reindeer Logic Puzzle
This reindeer logic puzzle is perfect for bringing a bit of Christmas cheer into your classroom. Students are given seven statements about Santa’s reindeer who have run a race. They must use logical reasoning to determine the order in which the reindeer finished the race.
Christmas Tree Pentominoes Puzzle
Help bring some festive puzzling spirit to your classroom with this pentominoes Christmas tree puzzle. My students love pentominoes puzzles, and I think your students will love these puzzles as well!
Decorate the Tree Christmas Puzzle
This Decorate the Christmas Tree Puzzle was my first ever original puzzle that I made for my classroom. Since then, it has been used in hundreds of math classrooms across the country!
Christmas Prime Tree Puzzle
Luke Janicke shares a clever Christmas-themed prime number puzzle. Can you fill in the stars with digits so that each line in the tree forms a different prime number?
Christmas Tree Addition Puzzles
Put your addition and logical thinking skills to the test to find the missing numbers to complete each of these Christmas Tree Addition Puzzles.
Holiday Triples Puzzle
Can you combine the letter trio cards to spell out some words associated with Christmas? Each trio of letters will be used exactly one time.
Christmas Word Path Grid Puzzle
Can you find the nine hidden words in this fun Christmas word puzzle?
Christmas Fill-In Puzzle
Can you place each of the Christmas words into this free printable Christmas Fill-In Word Puzzle?
Christmas Tree Square Edge Matching Puzzle
This fun Christmas Tree Square Edge Matching Puzzle challenges you to assemble the pieces to form a 3×3 square where the pieces match along each edge to form Christmas trees.
Christmas Mazes
Christmas Star Maze
Can you solve this free printable Christmas star maze? It is a free download with ten different levels of difficulty to choose from.
Christmas Tree Maze
I’m sure this free printable Christmas tree maze will help make your holiday merry and bright. This printable Christmas maze comes in 10 different levels of difficulty.
Christmas Stocking Mazes
This free printable Christmas stocking maze is sure to bring you some Christmas cheer! This printable Christmas maze comes in 10 different levels of difficulty.
Christmas Games and Activities
Drawing on Your Head Christmas Game
Looking for a fun Christmas game? Check out this drawing on your head Christmas challenge. The original challenge called for the participants to draw on a paper plate on top of their heads, but I switched things up and had my students draw on individual dry erase boards.
Christmas Tree Dots and Boxes Game
Add some fun to your Christmas celebration with this seasonal version of the classic dots and boxes game.
Christmas Tree Nim Game
The classic game of nim gets a fun seasonal twist in the form of a Christmas tree shaped playing board!
Strategy Games for Student Christmas Gifts
Mrs. Allan suggests a great way to use a strategy game (Mulinello Quadrupio) to create a meaningful present for all of the students in her homeroom class.
Christmas Math Art Activities
Math Vocabulary Christmas Ornament Project
Check out these math vocabulary Christmas ornaments that my Algebra 2 students created. Each student was assigned a different math vocabulary word that we studied during the first semester.
Icosahedron Ornament Balls Tutorial
These Icosahedron Ornament Balls can be made using scrapbook paper or old Christmas cards. They make the perfect winter craft!
Borax Snowflake Christmas Ornaments
One of my most favorite projects was these Borax Snowflake Christmas Ornaments that I made a few years ago with my chemistry students with coffee filters. The ornaments are super glittery and sparkly in person.
Triangular Christmas Trees
These triangular christmas trees from Mark Ekstrom are beautiful! They are based on a tutorial from Martha Stewart.
Parabolic Tangent Line Christmas Tree Craft
These Christmas trees made with string, nails, and a piece of wood look so cool!
Christmas Classroom Decorating Ideas
Mathematical Christmas Display
This inspiring mathematical Christmas display from James Welham includes Sierpinski trees, Koch snowflakes, and student-created origami.
Math Door Decorating Ideas
Caitlyn Gironda – 12 Days of Math Class Door Decorations
Miscellaneous Christmas Ideas
Not Your Average Winter Break Homework
Sara VanDerWerf provides an example of an awesome winter break homework assignment. Some of the tasks include watching movies, hanging out with family, and doing random acts of kindness.
Customized Christmas Ornaments for Students
Rory Yakubov shares an easy way to create custom laminated ornaments for each student in your classes.