Santa’s Naughty and Nice List Christmas Math Activity Packet

Santa’s Naughty and Nice List Christmas Math Activity Packet Post Preview: This math printable set is a fun, Christmas-themed activity where students can help Santa make his list, decide if the children were naughty or nice, and then do story problems based on their naughty and nice numbers.

It seems hard to believe, but Christmas is almost here! While I’m sure most of you are wrapping up school this week, whether you’re in the classroom or at home, I still have some more Christmas goodies that I hope you’ll be able to use this week.

In this totally free Christmas math printable, children will have so much fun helping Santa with his naughty and nice list. After they finish on the list, they’ll do two pages of math activities, including story problems, based around the choice they made for Santa’s list.

Note: The text link to download the Santa’s List Christmas Math Packet is toward the end of this post. 

If you’d like to do some more Christmas math activities, I have another free packet that is Christmas cookie-themed math and literacy activities that you might like as well.

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Santa’s Naughty and Nice List Christmas Math Printables for Kids

This packet can be used by a variety of age groups. This is best used with students in elementary school. Story problems require both addition and subtraction.

However, there is one question that asks about “half the children on the nice list.” Although very simple division, you might have to demonstrate for your children or students how to figure that part out, if you feel that they need that assistance.

My suggestion, since the packet is a free download, is to just download it, if you think it might work. Then, you can check out the level of difficulty and assess from there whether it is right for your children or students.

What’s Included in the Santa’s Naughty and Nice List Christmas Math Packet?

Toward the bottom of the post, you will find a text link for downloading the Christmas math packet. 

This download is five pages long. Three of the pages are for students.

Included in the Christmas math download:

• Cover Page
• Instructions and terms of use page
• Three pages of math activities for students

You can print this packet on white paper to allow kids to color in the pictures that appear alongside some of the math activities. This will also allow them to color in the faces to denote whether a child has made the naughty list or the nice list.

Conversely, you can print them on some fun festive papers instead. This means you will not offer the option of coloring. If you do this, students can just place an X over the face in the column to denote whether each child is on the naughty list or the nice list.

Santa’s Naughty and Nice List Story Problem Printable Set

The First Student Page: Santa’s List Tally

This is the page where students will write out ten names on the list and then each student will make a decision whether to put each person on the naughty list or the nice list.

Because each student will make their own naughty and nice choices, the answers to each Christmas math story problem will be different. However, if you want students to have the same answers to make grading easier in a class setting, you can tell students that a certain number should be on the nice list and a certain number should be on the naughty list.

After students make their naughty and nice decisions, they should color in the correct face and then tally up their totals at the bottom of the page.

An Important Note about Santa’s List Tally

It could be very easy for this part of the activity to go wrong, so I wanted to make a special note of it before going on with my description. That way, you can work to make sure it all runs smoothly and there are no hurt feelings.

Since students will be listing the names they want to add to the list, it would be possible for them to list some of the more popular kids in the class and mark them as nice and some of the less popular kids in class and mark them as naughty. Ugh. People can be rotten like that.

Here are some possible suggestions for rules you could put in place about the names section of this packet. You are free to use none of these suggestions or pick one of them that you think will work best for your class:

1. Students may not use the name of any person in the class

2. Students may only use name of their own family members

3. You can post a list of names that may be used for the activity and students can only use those (or may choose from that list, if you have made a list longer than 10 names)

4. You can have students just use letters, numbers, or colors as the names

5. Visit this post with Elf on the Shelf name ideas and pick some fun ones from it to give the students as possibilities for the names on their list (and then only let them pick from that list). Some fun ones include: Gingersnap, Snowflake, Buster, Jolly, Windy, Spark, Tiny, Jingle, Pickles, Snowball, Lucky, Cocoa, and Muffin.

Note: Some of the names on the lists are also common names that may be names of your students. So, just give students choices from the list that you have made ahead of time.

Better a little preparation and decision making ahead of time to stop hard feelings in the classroom and unkind behavior.

The Second Student Page of the Christmas Math Packet: Tallying Their Answers and Writing a Math Sentence

On this page, students will make a tally mark for each name on the list and put it on either the naughty scroll or the nice scroll. After that, they are asked to color either the word naughty or the word nice, based on which has more tally marks.

Finally, students are told to write a math sentence to show the difference between the number of kids who were naughty and the number that were nice.

Sample math sentence:

Seven kids were naughty and only three kids were nice. How many more kids were naughty?

Students will use their math sentence as the last story problem on the following page.

The Last Student Page of the Christmas Math Packet: Story Problems Based on their Numbers

Students will solve addition and subtraction problems based on their naughty and nice data. (Some of these problems could be solved with simple multiplication and division instead.) There are four story problems already written. The last box is for the students to use the math sentence they created on the previous page.

An example of their Santa’s List Story Problems on this page:

Santa is going to give each person on the nice list two gifts. How many gifts will he need total?

Christmas-themed Extension Activities

After you have fun with the Christmas math packet, would you like to add some more Christmas activities to your schedule this month?

Here are a couple of links for some more Christmas activities that you might enjoy:

The Children’s Book Review has a great list of the 20 best Christmas books for kids with descriptions of each book, as well as reading level suggestions and number of pages, to help you pick out which might be the best picks for your family or classroom.

Here is a set of 15 Christmas Coloring Pages that are a free gift for Real Life at Home email subscribers (or you can buy them for a couple of dollars here):

Here’s a 3D Gingerbread Cut Out Craft that’s perfect for many ages. There’s even a free printable template and step-by-step directions and pictures to follow.

You and your kids can decorate cookies for Christmas with this Christmas cookie cutter set that includes cookie cutters in the following shapes: gingerbread man, candy cane, snowman, Christmas tree, Christmas light, angel, sweater, mitten, snowflake, reindeer, and star.

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