My 5th and 6th graders today enjoyed watching Mr Bean's Christmas. If you search on here you can find a worksheet to go with it too.

Or have them make Christmas cards - generally they like being creative.

Or learn to sing some Christmas songs.

I found a Christmas Trivia PPT another user posted. I think that'll keep them interested.

Thanks for all the idea, will look through them for next week.

Ended up having one class of 5th grade today without much time to prepare. Asked my co-teacher to come up with a song - for caroling next week. She found a worksheed on "Rudolph the Red nose Reindeer"...only problem is they know the song in Korea. How to get them to learn the English? The only one that works seems to be the CHorus of Jingle Bells (at least for the younger grades)....and a few of them can sing the entire "let it go" song....

I had the "Silly Santa" video I was planning on doing with a younger grade. They were pretty embarassed by the big man without a shirt on... and I made a drawing of Santa in his boxers which just about had them rolling with laughter. We played "stick the clothes on silly santa"  with them blidfolded...the other students had to tell the on who is "it" "Go left!' "Straight" "up!' "Down!' "Go Right!"... it was pretty funny... but I wish I could have found a good santa coat, ended up having one student draw it on him. The final picture was Hysterical. Some of the boys were a bit lude with the magnets and they kept trying to put his clothes on wrong out of turn... but this class is generally insane to begin with. Funny thing is I thought this would only work with 1st graders... was way off.

We also wrote santa wish letters.... most ended up wanting a lambo and a doreamon. Others wanted a house/apartment and money. :-/ 

My school never would have allowed videos to be shown, but crafts were always okay. Try tying “christmas craft kindy” into google and you will surely find lots of ideas.

We also wrote santa wish letters.... most ended up wanting a lambo and a doreamon. Others wanted a house/apartment and money. :-/

At the English village in the town where I used to work a few years ago, I remember the students did a similar activity where they wrote letters to Santa in English and the letters were hung up on the walls afterward. I remember noticing in almost every single letter that almost every student wrote that they wanted a smartphone. Haha.

As for Christmas activity ideas, I think making Christmas cards is a good activity, especially if you have arts & crafts items (e.g., markers, crayons, stickers, glitter, confetti, glue, scissors, etc.) either already available in your English classroom or if your school has an English budget to purchase such arts & crafts items for this activity. I remember several years ago I did a Christmas card activity at a small one-day English camp my then-school held; luckily we had a budget to order some arts & crafts items, so it was good.

We're doing cards this year. You don't need squat in terms of materials. Just give each student a piece of blank white card, scrawl some example pleasantries on the board and bring out the obligatory bucket of textas/crayons. In place of glitter or confetti or any of the other luxury items, I like to throw each group a single printed sheet of colouring in bits and bobs to cut out and paste. Gives the less artistically inclined students somewhere to begin.

Not sure if I'd call arts & crafts items "luxury items," but to each their own, I suppose. My then-school happened to have an English budget available for me to request materials/supplies for the camp where I had kids make Christmas cards, so since it was available, I made use of it, that's all. I realize not every school has an English budget available, though, in which case, yeah, paper and markers/crayons are all you really need to make Christmas cards at the bare minimum of materials/supplies. Part of the reason why I actually requested things like gel pens, stickers, glitter, confetti, tinsel, pipe cleaners, etc., was so that the students who were less artistic would have more things to work with to help with their creativity. But that's just me.

Here's a frozen bomb game (thanks to person who made the template) I made for middle school but should be ok for elementary too . It's based on British Christmas traditions but feel free to change it.