Primary French Christmas Activities for Children

Primary French Christmas Activities: Songs, Games & Festive Ideas 🎄

Primary French Christmas: Activities your children will love!

Primary French Christmas Active Learn Video

The festive period is a fantastic time of year to explore French Christmas Activities for Children! There are so many opportunities to bring in songs, games and to embed language in daily routines. Moreover, you can have a lot of festive fun with learning French Christmas vocabulary and it is a great theme for exploring phonics! We developed all of these activities, and more, in our French Christmas Lingobox. In this blog post, we’ll share some of these French Christmas activities as well as others on our Youtube channel . We’ll also share lots of activities you can just take forward yourself! These activities will be in French but are easily transferable to other languages. Likewise, they are designed for primary but could be adapted for secondary level. Explore the different areas below and let us know how you get on with these activities via our social media!

Primary French Christmas Greetings

Joyeux Noël Challenge Sheet for Children

Christmas greetings are a great place to start when thinking about your French language learning at Christmas. Why not switch out your normal classroom greetings for Joyeux Noël (Merry Christmas) or Bonne Année (Happy New Year!).

You can even set this up as a fun challenge using our Christmas Joyeux Noël challenge sheet. Simply ask children to work individually, in pairs or in groups and use the greetings as often as they can with different people in school and at home!

These kinds of challenges are a great way to motivate children and young people to use language more frequently and to build their confidence in talking French!

French Christmas greetings can, of course, be used to make beautiful French Christmas cards (cartes de Noël!)🎄 You’ll find a complete step-by-step guide to creating a French Christmas card inside our French Christmas Lingobox. It’s a perfect festive classroom activity — and a lovely way to practise writing and vocabulary. ✏️

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French Advent Calendar for Children

A fantastic activity to mark the start of the festive period is, of course, an advent calendar! This is a great way to build in a little bit of French in everyday with easy, fun activities! Our French Advent Calendar is packed full of fantastic 1 to 3 minute activities including animations, digital games, an open the present activity and how to draw a Christmas elf!

You could, of course, create your own advent calendar with different activities and games. If you do, I would recommend including some of the activities in our Lingobox Christmas Youtube Playlist ! This includes some of our fun Christmas songs, crafts and our Christmas French Dance activity!

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🎅 French Christmas Vocabulary Activities for Children

Our French Christmas Lingobox is full of festive vocabulary activities designed to make learning fun and memorable. These key topic words appear across our crafts, stories, and games — helping children build confidence and fluency through play and repetition.

You can weave these phrases into lots of different festive classroom activities, such as:

🎄 Christmas language games – practise in class and then use them at your party!
✂️ Making Christmas posters and labelling festive characters
💌 Creating Christmas cards using French greetings
🎨 Christmas crafts and colouring activities – explore our printable packs in the Christmas Lingobox Downloads section, including colourful French Christmas flashcards to support early writing and vocabulary recall.

I love to introduce new language through actions, rhythm, and melody — it creates a learning hook that makes French stick! For example, if you’re hiding an elf (un lutin) in your classroom, try chanting together:

“Où est le lutin?” (Where is the elf?)

Lingobox subscribers will find the vocabulary and the audio pronunciation in our Where is the Elf activity here.

Primary French Christmas Songs: Our top picks!

Songs are fantastic at Christmas time and whatever you do, I would recommend including one in the language you’re learning! We’ve got a selection on our Youtube channel including our:

French Christmas Rap – This is great for upper classes and is built on call and response in the verse with a repetitive chorus. You can learn the actions to go with it on our Youtube channel or ask the children to come up with their own!

Jingle Bells – Counting to 30 in French version! I’ve always found the original version of Jingle Bells in French to be a bit tricky for young learners. Therefore, I came up with this adapted version which is designed to help practise the numbers and with the original chorus in French. It’s a fun, adapted version and a great way to practise the French numbers!

Active French Christmas Dance Song

This fun, active French Christmas dance song is the perfect song for Christmas parties or in-class brain breaks. I hear from a lot of teachers about how much children love this song! It’s espcecially good for “bouncy” classes and works well in classes with lots of boys! The idea is that it teaches alot of the key Christmas vocabulary but just by singing and dancing along. You can watch the full version on Youtube below.

You’ll find a full playlist of French Christmas songs on our YouTube channel 🎵 — or get the ad-free versions with full audio and vocabulary support packs inside your Lingobox 6-week school free trial or 7-day individual free trial.

🎥 Watch the Primary French Christmas Webinar

If you missed our festive live session, don’t worry — you can watch a short, 10 minute summary version below! In this webinar, I share lots of fun, practical and easy-to-use activities for teaching French at Christmas, including:

🎄 Christmas vocabulary through actions & rhythm
🧑‍🎄 “Where is the Elf?” active game
🎶 French Christmas songs and movement activities
✂️ Simple crafts and classroom ideas
🔤 Christmas phonics and pronunciation support

Enjoy watching — and feel free to share it with colleagues!

Looking for further primary planning and support?

Watch a short preview of our French Christmas Lingobox below!

Whatever you get up to over Christmas, we hope you have a wonderful festive period in school and in the holidays! Wishing you all a Joyeux Noël from all of us at Lingobox!

If you’re looking for further information and support, check out our French Christmas Activities webinar. You’ll find the full presentation and recording below:

French Christmas Activities for Children Webinar Recording

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