Christmas Phonics Worksheets

The last weeks of term are not the moment for hard work — but they are a good moment for painless practice. This free Christmas lesson kit keeps the phonics real while the pictures do the festive lifting: flashcards, a four-page worksheet, and a fold-up mini-book about an elf, a sled and a gift. Every word your child reads is decodable, and every picture is there to be coloured in.

1Start here: teach the words

Christmas Phonics Flashcards (6 cards)

One picture card per page — teach the six words before the worksheet.

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2Practice the sounds

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Download the Christmas phonics worksheet (4 pages)

3Read it back

Christmas Phonics Mini-Book (1 sheet, fold-up)

A decodable mini-book your child folds from one printed sheet, then reads.

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New to mini-books? How to fold it →

4Everything for this lesson

Christmas Phonics Lesson Pack — the whole kit in one PDF

Flashcards, worksheet and mini-book in teaching order. One print job.

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What's inside

• Four worksheet pages in teaching order: beginning sounds → read & match → a coloring sound hunt → a roll-a-sound dice game (one die and crayons is all you need).
• Six flashcards — one card per word, picture and word together, for teaching the vocabulary before any reading starts.
• A fold-up mini-book of short decodable sentences about an elf, a sled and a gift — made from one printed sheet with a single cut.

The words in this pack

Six genuinely decodable Christmas words: elf, sled, gift, sock, bell, star. Short-vowel words with simple blends, plus sock (ck), bell (double l) and star (ar) as gentle stretches.

Common questions

Why is Santa only in the pictures?

Santa, reindeer and Christmas are all far beyond a beginning reader — asking a child to read them teaches guessing, not decoding. So they appear as pictures to colour, while the words we actually ask children to read (elf, sled, gift, sock, bell, star) are ones they can sound out on their own.

My child is a confident reader already. Is this too easy?

Probably, for the worksheet. Try the mini-book on its own, or use the flashcards as a speed game — how fast can they read all six? Our vowel-team and magic-e packs are a better fit for children already reading simple sentences.

Can we do this over several days?

Ideally, yes. Flashcards one day, a worksheet page the next, the mini-book at the end of the week. Short and frequent beats one long session, especially in December.

Is it free to use in a classroom or holiday program?

Yes — print as many copies as you need.