Christmas is a very fun time of year. Its also a very exciting time for children. Keeping them occupied while you’re planning dinner, putting the last minute touches on your party plans or even wrapping gifts, can be the most difficult part of the season.
Their old toys just don’t keep them as occupied as they did two weeks ago. Even the most laid back child becomes impatient when it comes to Christmas.
So if you’re looking to keep them busy, for a little while at least, try printable coloring pages that you can get off the internet, most of the time for free. Try Coloring-page.net/christmas.html
The sites that you can print these pages from are geared towards teachers so you can print anything that has to do with Christmas. Most public schools don’t allow anything that has to do with God or Jesus, so they have secular pages too. You can print Christmas trees, candy canes, gifts, snowmen and so on.
If you have toddlers just letting them color will be enough, but older kids love games so why not give them poster board and have them cut out the pictures and make a story? Then have them tell you the story when you’re done with what you are doing. Not only will this keep them busy, you also have a really cute decoration to hang up for everyone to see.
If you want to print religious pages you can do that also. They should have the Holy Family, shepherds, wisemen, animals and angel pages to name a few. You can have the children color the pages and cut them out. Then if you want you can glue them on felt and make a story board for them to act out the Christmas story, so they will know what Christmas is really about.