Twinkling lights or Snow angels? Virtual or Distance Learning December Christmas ideas for your classroom

Maybe you’re in a classroom, homeschool, virtual or distance learning when Thanksgiving comes around this year….how to celebrate Christmas virtual or have a social distance holiday activities for your students!

If you are looking for great virtual teacher gifts and holiday Christmas gifts for teachers – this POST has it all!

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If you’re celebrating Christmas online this year or remotely with students here are some ideas to help!

Holidays and celebrations are cornerstones of the year in the classroom or at home. They give students something to look forward to.

Social distance or virtual Christmas student ideas are not too tough and there are so many ways to incorporate virtual holiday classroom activities all throughout December.

If you love these ideas to keep students engaged you HAVE to grab this student engagement calendar with TONS more at your fingertips!

If you want great December Holiday Virtual Morning Meeting ideas at your fingertips – this BUNDLE is for you! Games, prompts, practice and more perfect for your elementary classroom virtually or in person!

What are some virtual Christmas or holiday celebration ideas for social distancing in December?

Virtual Christmas classroom ideas do not have to be boring!

Holiday Virtual Activity – Would you Rather?!

Hilarious to play with students OR use as writing prompts, – this Christmas/holiday Would You Rather version is awesome!

Easy to use digitally or in person for a great virtual December classroom activity!

Virtual Holiday Scavenger Zoom for elementary!

A holiday zoom scavenger hunt is a fun virtual December idea!

This Holiday Scavenger hunt is a great for all elementary classrooms!

Use this in December and have a fun Friday or activity for any class or holiday fun activity!

December Virtual Emoji Text Prompts

A fun virtual Christmas Morning meeting idea are text message writing prompts!

These are themed for the holidays – like “Mrs. Claus accidently made spicy cookies….which gave the reindeer lightning speed, you won’t believe what happened that Christmas.”

These are easy to use to start off a class with fun writing or as a december holiday writing project for students!

Digital December Holiday Quotation Mark Practice (with JOKES!)

These Quotation mark and joke practice is such a fun way to practice quotation marks – use this as a December virtual activity!

Get students laughing with jokes!!

Use the picture prompts to answer questions. Use with the whole class or individually and have students fill in!

December Holiday Quotation Mark practice with JOKES are such a great way to keep students engaged!

Virtual Distance Learning Holiday Classroom Activity – Plot Twist Writing

Plot Twists are SUPER writing activities!

Look below – click on the 1, 2, or 3 to change the writing prompt.

A teacher can designate an amount of time, or turn these on randomly and yell “Plot Twist” and the stories get altered.

You can grab all the December Plot Twists here or use this one embedded here for your students for FREE!

Even this Free virtual Christmas Idea is great to do with students!!

Virtual Christmas Holiday Read Aloud

Take turns reading traditional stories.

Put up a fireplace as a screen share and listen to the tales.

This is such a fun virtual Christmas classroom idea.

Here’s a great list of December picture book read alouds to get you started!

Virtual Holiday Party Music

Crank some hoilday carols to sing along or do Christmas kareoke with students.

Distance Learning Pictionary

Use the whiteboard feature or a website and send students clues to draw holiday items via the chat.

Have other students guess!

Digital Hot Chocolate Party

Send or mail hot cocoa and everyone get together to drink at your virtual christmas party.

*bonus* wear fun pajamas or holiday themed attire.