Christmas Activities

A child with light brown hair looking at a gingerbread house on a white surface, with a container of ice cream and a round cardboard lid with a gingerbread house logo nearby.
A child with light brown hair looking at a gingerbread house on a white surface, with a container of ice cream and a round cardboard lid with a gingerbread house logo nearby.

Looking for Christmas activities for kids? Explore these easy sensory play, craft, potion play and book-inspired activities designed to make meaningful learning through play feel effortless.

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childs decorating reuseable gingerbread house with playdough and candy

Reuseable gingerbread house

I created this reuseable gingerbread house as I was sick of making a real one for the kids to just be like “eww its too spicy”. They wanted the joy of building and decorating it and I wanted to be able to use it year after year.

christmas numeracy activity

Simple Counting

Using a 10s frame and some number tokens (or even just write it on the reuseable mat) kiddos can search through the senssory base for items and count them out building their early numeracy skills. Got older kids? Make it addittion or even multiplication.

Close-up of a partially melted, layered, pink and red birthday cake with a green wrapper, topped with red gummy candies.

Potions

Potion play is always a guaranteed win. Big feelings? Potions. Need to get them outside? Potions. Want to drink your coffee hot? Potions!

Christmas Play Essentials

Gingerbread House Gingerbread House Gingerbread House
Gingerbread House
from $19.99

Create a Christmas tradition your family will look forward to every year. Build, decorate and play with a reusable gingerbread house that encourages creativity, fine motor skills and magical holiday memories—without the mess of baking.

Why families love it

🎄 A Christmas activity you'll use year after year.

🍬 Decorate and rebuild again and again.

✋ Encourages creativity and fine motor skills.

❤️ Creates meaningful family traditions and festive memories.

🌿 Reusable, durable and made for imaginative play.

Mega Christmas Potion Kit Mega Christmas Potion Kit
Mega Christmas Potion Kit
$44.99

Make Christmas magic easy with a ready-to-go potion kit filled with fizz, shimmer and festive ingredients for bubbling, screen-free play.

✔ Three festive fizz baubles for bubbling potion experiments
✔ Includes a gold potion bowl and Christmas-themed spoon
✔ Easy, hands-on activity that's ready to play
✔ Encourages creativity, imagination and screen-free play
✔ Includes a special Santa Christmas Magic postcard to begin the adventure

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Eco Present – Potion Play Favourite
$14.99

A magical addition to potion play and sensory activities! Fill the present with fizz and water and watch the potion bubble and erupt through the bow for extra excitement.

✔️ Perfect for potion play and sensory fun
✔️ Reusable for year-after-year play
✔️ Designed for messy, hands-on learning
✔️ Designed by Liz and made in Australia

Ideal for home play, classrooms and early learning settings.

Christmas Tree Sensory Tray Christmas Tree Sensory Tray
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Christmas Tree Sensory Tray
$18.99 $29.99

Get into the Christmas spirit though play.

✔️ Perfect for fizz, water or sensory bases

✔️ Made in Australia.

Only 1 available
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Books To Explore Together

A festive holiday scene featuring a Dr. Seuss-themed board game titled "How the Grinch Stole Christmas." The display includes a gingerbread house, miniature Christmas trees, and candy cane decorations. There are pink and white Christmas trees made of bottle brushes, a container with colorful round candies, and various small holiday figurines and ornaments.

Somebody’s Land

Cover of a children's book titled 'When Santa Got Stuck in a Gum Tree,' featuring illustrated animals such as a koala, an owl, a squirrel, a sloth, a raccoon, a bear, and a bird, with Santa hanging upside down from the tree.

When Santa Got Stuck in a Gum Tree

A young girl and her dog looking up at a cloudy sky with a distant rainstorm, with a Christmas tree hanging from a tree branch in the foreground, and a large Christmas star at the end of a string. The book title reads "All I Want for Christmas is Rain" and the authors are Cori Brooke and Megan Forward.
A young girl and her dog looking up at a cloudy sky with a distant rainstorm, with a Christmas tree hanging from a tree branch in the foreground, and a large Christmas star at the end of a string. The book title reads "All I Want for Christmas is Rain" and the authors are Cori Brooke and Megan Forward.

All I Want for Christmas is Rain

Community Inspiration Gallery

Bathroom sink filled with pink fizzy bath water, decorated with holiday-themed ornaments including a green spiral Christmas tree, candy canes, and small holiday figures, along with a gingerbread house-shaped bath toy.
Decorative gingerbread house with a heart-shaped window, surrounded by Christmas ornaments, a merry elf figurine, and a reindeer figure, set on a green base with holiday decorations in the background.
A decorative holiday scene with a gingerbread house, small figurines of Santa Claus, a snowman, and a Christmas tree, all arranged on a bed of white material resembling snow inside a round container. There are also small cut-out wooden trees and gingerbread cookies with smiling faces and red bows.
A gingerbread house with a cream frosting roof, set on a blue surface resembling snow, with shredded white frosting around it, possibly part of a craft or holiday display.
Decorative gingerbread house with white icing, candies, and gingerbread cookies, a hand decorating the roof, green Christmas tree figurine, container of frosting, and gingerbread house packaging.

Easy Christmas Craft Activities

Guide on how to make a Christmas tree using crumpled tissue paper and pom poms, with decorations including stockings, holly, and a gift box, along with a list of book recommendations for Christmas trees.
Guide on how to make a Christmas tree using crumpled tissue paper and pom poms, with decorations including stockings, holly, and a gift box, along with a list of book recommendations for Christmas trees.
A Christmas decoration craft project with instructions. It features Christmas stockings, holly, and gifts hanging from a string. The instructions detail how to create a Santa hat snowman using red paper, cotton balls, and a paper plate, with a small image of a snowman made from cotton balls and paper elements.
A Christmas decoration craft project with instructions. It features Christmas stockings, holly, and gifts hanging from a string. The instructions detail how to create a Santa hat snowman using red paper, cotton balls, and a paper plate, with a small image of a snowman made from cotton balls and paper elements.
A holiday craft instructions page for making pinecone ornaments with images of children attaching decorations to pinecones. The page has red, green, and white holiday-themed decorations at the top and step-by-step instructions.
A holiday craft instructions page for making pinecone ornaments with images of children attaching decorations to pinecones. The page has red, green, and white holiday-themed decorations at the top and step-by-step instructions.
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Sensory Play

Sensory play supports fine motor skills, emotional regulation, language development and imaginative exploration through tactile, open-ended play.

A holiday-themed decorative scene in a white bowl includes small animal figurines, a Santa figure in a red sleigh, and natural elements such as wood logs, stones, pine cones, and twigs. The background shows a colorful tablecloth and a green, leaf-like decoration.
A person wearing a blue pajama top with daisies is squeezing colorful slime onto a gingerbread house craft in a white bowl. The slime is red and turquoise. The bowl is placed on a multicolored quilt.
Holiday-themed sensory or slime activity with a gingerbread house, Christmas decorations, and small figurines on a divided surface with red and green colors.
A white bowl filled with red, green, and white Peewees, Christmas-themed stickers, and a scored sheet of paper with numbered circles and Christmas images on a wooden table.
Children playing with slime in a white bowl on a colorful tablecloth.

Potion Play

Calming hands-on play filled with fizzing, pouring & discovery.

Child creating colourful potion reactions during a NAIDOC Week inspired sensory play activity using natural elements and hands-on exploration.
A decorative display featuring a gingerbread house, a green cone-shaped foam Christmas tree, dried orange slices, pink foam soap, and a colorful flower-shaped spoon on a tray with soap bubbles and pink foam.
Close-up of an ice cream bar with strawberry and chocolate flavor in a green wrapper. The top of the ice cream has a foam-like texture with visible seeds and strawberry pieces.
Decorative champagne glass filled with pink bubbly and foam, surrounded by Christmas ornaments and beads, with green foliage in the background.
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