Christmas activities for kids: free printable mazes, math and coloring sheets
Screen-free Christmas activities for kids aged 3 to 10: Santa mazes, present-counting math, mandalas to color and drawing sheets, all free to print.
December is magical, and also long. School breaks, cold afternoons, travel days and the endless wait for Christmas morning all call for something calm to do that isn't another screen. Printable activities are perfect: they cost nothing, need only a pencil and some crayons, and a fresh one is always a click away.
Here are our favourite free Christmas activities for kids aged 3 to 10, sorted by age, with a link to print each one in seconds.
Christmas mazes: help Santa deliver the present
Mazes are a family favourite because they work at every age. On our Christmas maze maker, Santa has to find his way to the present, or you can switch to the snowman looking for his carrot nose.
- Ages 3 to 4: choose the tiny size. Wide paths and only a few turns.
- Ages 5 to 7: small or medium mazes add real dead ends.
- Ages 8 and up: try large or huge, and race a sibling.
Every maze is new, so you can print a different one for every child at the table. Tick "Add an answer page" if you want to check the route together.
Christmas math: count Santa's presents
Holiday breaks are a great time for a little gentle practice, so skills don't slip before school starts again. Our Christmas math worksheets show Santa's presents to count and add, which is ideal for preschool and kindergarten.
For older children, keep Santa as the math buddy and switch off the pictures to get bigger sums:
- Addition and subtraction within 20 for grade 1.
- Missing number problems like 8 + ☐ = 13 for grade 1 and 2.
- Times tables for grade 3 and up. One sheet a day over the break makes a real difference.
Color a Christmas mandala
A mandala becomes a Christmas decoration the moment it is colored in red, green and gold. Easy mandalas have big shapes for little hands; hard ones have fine detail that keeps older kids busy for a long time. Cut them out and hang them on the tree or stick them on the window as snowflakes.
Draw your own Christmas cards
Our how-to-draw sheets break a cat, dog, robot or superhero into easy steps. Once your child can draw one, add a Santa hat and a scarf, fold a sheet of paper in half, and you have a homemade Christmas card that grandparents will keep for years.
Quiet puzzles for busy days
- Spot the difference is perfect for restaurants and waiting rooms. Choose 3, 5 or 7 differences.
- Tracing worksheets help preschoolers warm up their pencil grip before writing letters to Santa.
- Symmetry drawing is a calm, focused activity for the afternoon before the big day.
Make an advent activity calendar
Instead of chocolate every day, try an activity advent calendar. Print a small stack of sheets, a maze, a math sheet, a mandala, a spot the difference, and put one in an envelope for each day. Because every sheet is generated fresh, you will never run out and no two days are the same. Mix in a few non-paper days too: bake cookies, build a blanket fort, go looking for Christmas lights.
Travel tips
- Print a mix of activities and keep them in a folder with a pencil case.
- Slip a maze into a plastic sleeve and use a dry-erase marker so it can be solved again and again.
- Save sheets as PDF from the print dialog to print later at grandma's house.
Everything on Kidsario is free to print for home and classroom use, with no sign-up. Teachers can print a different sheet for every child for the last week before the holidays. For a break from paper, our free learning games work on tablets and computers too.
Merry Christmas and happy printing!