Christmas Traditions KS2 Topic Pack

A Christmas traditions topic pack for Key Stage 2 (ages 7 to 11): reading pages on where the word and the date come from, the Christmas tree, St Nicholas and Father Christmas, cards and crackers, A Christmas Carol, Christmas around the world and Christmas in the Isle of Man, a label-the-tree page, cut-out order and sorting cards, a true-or-false quiz, a word search, a certificate and full answers.

What’s inside:

- Teacher page

- Why do we do what we do at Christmas? (with Useless the eraser)

- A name and a date: the word Christmas, 25 December and Saturnalia (Britannica facts)

- Label the Christmas tree (our own drawing)

- The Christmas tree: from Germany to Windsor (Britannica, Royal Collection Trust and V&A facts)

- St Nicholas and Father Christmas (Britannica facts)

- Cards and crackers (V&A facts)

- A Christmas Carol (Britannica facts)

- Christmas around the world: Mexico, Italy, Brazil, Australia and India (Britannica facts)

- Christmas in the Isle of Man: the Foolish Fortnight, carvals and Hunt the Wren (Culture Vannin facts)

- Put it in order: six cut-out event cards

- True or false quiz

- Before 1800 or 1800 or later? cut-out sorting cards

- Word search

- Christmas Traditions Explorer certificate

- Answer keys

- Credits, licence and sources

Pages: 19 (including cover and credits). Sizes: A4 (210 × 297 mm) and US Letter (8.5 × 11 in), both PDFs included in one zip.

Printing: Print at 100% / actual size on A4 or US Letter. Inside pages use light backgrounds and print well in black and white; covers are dark, so start from page 2 to save ink. The order and sorting cards are meant to be cut out.

Every fact is checked against named source pages from Encyclopaedia Britannica, the V&A, Historic England, the Royal Collection Trust, the BBC and Culture Vannin (checked 30 Oct 2026), and the sources are listed on the pack’s credits page.

There are no photos in this pack: all drawings, puzzles and layouts are REALLYBYTE’s own work. Drawings are our own simplified pictures: not photographs or copies of real cards, objects or places, and not copied from any print, photo or book. Not affiliated with Encyclopaedia Britannica, the Victoria and Albert Museum, The Postal Museum, The National Archives, Historic England, English Heritage, the Royal Collection Trust, the BBC, the Met Office or Culture Vannin. Their names are used only to identify the sources we quote.

Licence: personal and single-classroom use. You may print as many copies as you need for your own family or your own class, and share it with your class through a password-protected platform. Please don’t resell, re-upload or share it publicly. For school-wide use, please email info@reallybyte.com.

Made by REALLYBYTE, the team behind christmas.traditions.im. Questions: info@reallybyte.com

This is a digital download: no physical item will be shipped.