Need engaging French activities for the busy weeks leading up to Christmas?
This ready-to-use French Christmas Activity Pack helps beginner French students build Christmas vocabulary, explore authentic French traditions and stay engaged with meaningful end-of-year learning. With a variety of language, cultural and creative activities, this no-prep resource makes it easy to keep students learning while celebrating the festive season.
Perfect for Year 7–8 Beginner French, upper primary French, novice French learners, relief lessons, fast finishers or December language units.
What's Included
✔ Christmas in France Reading Passage
✔ Reading Comprehension Quiz
✔ French Christmas Vocabulary Matching Activity
✔ Christmas Word Search
✔ Christmas Crossword Puzzle
✔ 5 Colour-by-Number Activities
✔ Christmas Alphabet Challenge
✔ French Christmas Traditions Research Task
✔ France vs Home Country Christmas Comparison Activity
✔ French Christmas Recipe Research
✔ Decorate a Christmas Tree Craft
✔ Christmas Card Templates with French Greetings
✔ French Christmas Writing Activity
✔ Answer Key
Students Will Practise
- French Christmas vocabulary
- Reading comprehension
- French cultural understanding
- Comparing Christmas traditions across cultures
- Research and information gathering
- Writing and creative communication
- Speaking and class discussion opportunities
Why Teachers Love It
✔ No preparation required
✔ Ready to print and teach
✔ Engaging mix of academic and creative activities
✔ Perfect for maintaining learning during the final weeks of term
✔ Flexible activities suitable for independent work, pairs or whole-class lessons
✔ Supports intercultural understanding through authentic French traditions
Perfect For
- Christmas lessons
- End-of-year French units
- Cultural studies
- Relief lessons
- Fast finishers
- Homework
- Independent learning
Bring the magic of Noël en France into your classroom with engaging activities that combine language learning, culture and creativity while saving you valuable planning time during the busiest part of the school year.
Australian Curriculum: French v9.0 – Years 7–8 (Year 7 entry)
Communicating meaning in French
- AC9LF8EC04 – Locate and process information and ideas in familiar spoken, written and multimodal texts, responding in ways appropriate to cultural context, purpose and audience
- AC9LF8EC06 – Create spoken, written and multimodal, informative and imaginative texts using appropriate vocabulary, expressions, grammatical structures, and some textual conventions
Understanding language and culture
- AC9LF8EU04 – Recognise how identity is shaped by language(s), culture(s), beliefs, attitudes and values
