Advent calendar printables: Have fun, be creative and learn to read

Our activity packs are jam-packed with festive fun for you and your littles to enjoy. We have everything you need for entertaining, educational Christmas activities.

So, sit back, relax and get ready for 24 days of festive fun!

1. Draw Claus Manor with Jessica Claus

First on our list of advent calendar printables – draw Claus Manor with Mrs Claus!

Claus Manor is the most impressive home on Lacus Island. After all, it belongs to Santa and Mrs Claus! What do you think it should look like?

We’ve provided your little one with a reference illustration to get started. Or, if they prefer, they can start from scratch! Why not encourage your child to use their imagination and see what they create?

2. Complete the Santa Academy word search

Why don’t you and your little one start the festive season with a Santa Academy word search? This is a great activity sheet to encourage your child to read – and have some Christmassy fun while doing it!

3. Draw Santa’s sleigh with Mrs Claus 

If your little one enjoyed drawing with Mrs Claus (see our first idea), then they’ll love this next activity! Next on our list of advent calendar printables is to draw Santa’s sleigh with Jessica Claus.

Just like our previous Christmas coloring printable, we’ve included a reference image for your child to use. They can use this illustration as a guide or let their imagination run wild!

4. Help Arctic and Astra find Winter! 

Oh no, Arctic and Astra have lost their calf, Winter! Can you and your little one complete the maze and help them find her?

5. Decorate the Christmas tree with Tobias

You and your child will have heaps of fun with this next activity on our list of advent calendar printables! Why don’t you decorate the Lacus Island Christmas tree with Tobias Trumpet?

One of the best ways to have festive fun is by decorating your house for Christmas. With this activity sheet, your little one can join the fun and decorate their very own tree!

This activity allows them to be creative and experiment with color. Will they stick to a traditional Christmas tree or create something else? And don’t forget the most important part – what will your little one draw at the top of the Christmas tree?

6. Art class with Katty King 

The best advent calendar printables give your child an opportunity to express their creative side. So, it’s time for art class with Katty King!

With this activity sheet, your child can color in two different versions of Santa. One is hot and one is cold! Encourage your child to use colors that represent Santa’s temperature. For example, what color will he be when he’s boiling hot? What about freezing cold?

7. Design your own cracker with Gerry Gingernut

Next on our list of advent calendar printables – design your own cracker with Gerry Gingernut!

With this printable, your little one can countdown to Christmas by designing a jolly, festive cracker with Gerry. Just remember to use lots of colors to make your Christmas cracker POP!

8. Creative writing with Noelle Newson

Here at Santa Academy, we think the best advent calendar printables will help your child learn with festive fun. So, why don’t you celebrate advent with a creative writing activity sheet?

Noelle Newson runs the bookstore on Lacus Island, and she’s looking for new Christmas stories to display on her shelves. We’ve provided a prompt, but the rest is up to your little one!

9. Create your own candy with Mr Bon Bon 

Mr Bon Bon’s store, Delicious Delights, is known for selling scrumptious candy to the residents of Lacus Island. He’s busy thinking of his next great idea, but he needs your help!

With this activity sheet, you and your little one can create your own candy. What flavors will you choose?

10. Get ready, get set… and complete the ultimate Elf Ed Scavenger Hunt!

Not only will our advent calendar printables help your children learn to read, but they’ll help them keep active too! So, this Christmas, get moving and see if you can compete the ultimate Elf Ed Scavenger Hunt!

Your little one can take on this challenge alone, with the family, or tackle it with some friends. All you need to do is hide the items around your house – then the real fun can begin! Whoever finds the items first – wins!

11. PE lesson with Flea Faster

Speaking of staying active over the festive season, why not work out with Flea Faster, our very own fitness fanatic?

Get your sports gear on and warm up for a workout like no other!

12. Create your own Christmas code with Lena

Next on our list of advent calendar printables – create your own Christmas code with Lena!

As the Original Christmas Fairy, she knows a thing or two about fairy values! So, who better to create your own Christmas code with than Lena? With this activity, your little one can learn to read and think about which values are most important to them.

13. Build Santa Academy with Barry

Barry Buttler owns Baubles Construction, and he needs a little help this Christmas! For this next activity, your little one can build Santa Academy with Barry. What better way to get in the holiday spirit than building the most festive school in the world?

14. Decorate your own Christmas jumper

Christmas just wouldn’t be the same without a festive Christmas jumper for the big day. With this next activity, your child can design their own with Tilly Twinkle and Doug Taped!

15. Complete the Fairy Fellow word search

We’ve already had one word search on our list of advent calendar printables. But why not add another word search to your Christmas countdown? This time, you and your little one need to find all the words in the Fairy Fellow word search. Are you ready for the challenge?

16. Make a gingerbread house with Gerry Gingernut

Now it’s time to make a gingerbread house with Gerry Gingernut! Gerry knows how to create the most beautiful gingerbread houses, and now he’s going to teach your little one!

Get ready for the festive scent of gingerbread to fill the air…

17. Learn about Christmas traditions around the world

Santa visits so many countries on his Christmas Eve travels. He’s picked up a thing or two about Christmas traditions around the world. Do you want to learn about them? Well, with this advent calendar printable, you can!

18. Visit the Ideas Station with Magnus McKenzie

Next on our list of advent calendar printables, it’s time for your child to put their imagination to the test. Visit the Ideas Station with Magnus McKenzie and sketch ideas for new Christmas toys!

With this activity, you and your little one can truly let your imaginations run wild.

19. Design your own gift wrap with Douglas

As the big day approaches, it’s time to start wrapping the presents and placing them under the tree!

Douglas Squattsbottom always says that the perfect wrapping paper is very bright and matches the gift inside it. Use this advent calendar printable to design your own gift wrap!

20. More creative writing fun!

The last creative writing activity sheet was so much fun that we thought we’d include another! This time, your child can write a fun-filled, imaginative story based on the following prompt:

How did the snowman get there?

21. Take part in the ULTIMATE Fairy Fellow Scavenger Hunt

This Christmas, we challenge you to complete the ultimate Fairy Fellow Scavenger Hunt! Can you find all the items on our list? Look for:

• Candy
• Something for your hair
• Flowers
• Something with wings
• Crayons
• Something pink
• Something that moves
• Slippers
• Something that talks.

Well, what are you waiting for? Get ready, get set…GO!

22. Reindeer Recruit word search 

As we come to the end of our list of advent calendar printables, it’s time for another word search. After all, word searches combine two of our favorite things – learning and festive fun! This time, you need to find all the words in our Reindeer Recruit word search.

23. Make your own reindeer food

Christmas Eve is almost here, so you need to start preparing for the big night! As the countdown to Christmas comes to a close, why don’t you make our special reindeer food? Santa’s reindeer work hard to pull his sleigh and fly all around the world – they deserve a special treat!

With this delicious recipe from Rupert Reins, you can make the food that reindeers love. Just don’t forget to leave the food somewhere the reindeers can easily find it!

24. Make Santa’s favorite cookies!

It’s Christmas Eve! Do you know what that means? It’s time to leave Santa his favorite festive cookies. But do you know how to make them? Not to worry, Peppa Pudding will show you!

With her famous recipe, you can make Santa’s favorite treats, Triple Choco Chinos. While he’s indulging in cookies, your children will be fast asleep, excited to see the presents left under the tree!

Let’s recap…

Our favorite advent calendar printables include…

1. Draw Claus Manor with Jessica Claus
2. Complete the Santa Academy word search
3. Draw Santa’s sleigh with Mrs Claus
4. Help Arctic and Astra find Winter!
5. Decorate the Christmas tree with Tobias
6. Art class with Katty King
7. Design your own cracker with Gerry Gingernut
8. Creative writing with Noelle Newson
9. Create your own candy with Mr Bon Bon
10. Get ready, get set… and complete the ultimate Elf Ed Scavenger Hunt!
11. PE lesson with Flea Faster
12. Create your own Christmas code with Lena
13. Build Santa Academy with Barry
14. Decorate your own Christmas jumper
15. Complete the Fairy Fellow word search
16. Make a gingerbread house with Gerry Gingernut
17. Learn about Christmas traditions around the world
18. Visit the Ideas Station with Magnus McKenzie
19. Design your own gift wrap with Douglas
20. More creative writing fun!
21. Take part in the ULTIMATE Fairy Fellow Scavenger Hunt
22. Reindeer Recruit word search
23. Make your own reindeer food
24. Make Santa’s favorite cookies!

The Santa Academy app – coming 2022!

If you’ve enjoyed reading about our advent calendar printables, why not check out our Santa Academy app?

Coming Christmas 2022, the Santa Academy app is filled with festive fun for everyone to enjoy. No matter who you are, you’ll find something for you at Santa Academy!

Christmas is an extremely busy time for Santa, and he needs help getting ready for the big day. At Santa Academy, you’ll learn how to assist Santa and everyone on Lacus Island as they prepare for Christmas. And what better way to learn than with Elves, Fairies and Reindeer?

Enroll into Elf Ed, Reindeer Recruit or Fairy Fellow for 24 days of festive fun. Each day during advent, you can unlock the secrets of Christmas by helping the Elves, Reindeers and Fairies. You’ll make important decisions, like which sleigh Santa should use on Christmas Eve. Or who should win Employee of the Month at the Elf Station.

You can download the app from 1^st November 2022. School starts 1^st December 2022.

Santa Academy – The Novel

This year, our author Jill will be releasing her first novel through Hudson Publishing Company. The novel will feature many of the lovable and hilarious characters many are now familiar with. You and your kids will love reading along to uncover the origins of Christmas. Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter to stay up to date with news and releases!

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