Add a little gnome-sized fun to December with this Christmas Gnomes Activity Page for Kids!
Featuring adorable festive gnomes along with a Christmas word search and maze, this printable gives children two fun activities to complete on one cheerful holiday page.
It’s a simple choice for Christmas break, classroom activities, homeschool lessons, holiday parties, or a quiet afternoon at home while everyone is getting ready for Christmas.
🎅 Meet the Christmas Gnomes
Christmas gnomes have plenty of personality, from their enormous pointed hats to their fluffy beards and tiny noses.
On this activity page, these whimsical little characters add some extra Christmas magic while kids work their way through two festive puzzles.
Children can imagine that the gnomes are Santa’s little helpers preparing for Christmas Eve.
Maybe they’re wrapping presents.
Perhaps they’re decorating the North Pole.
Or maybe they’ve created the puzzles themselves and are waiting to see if anyone can solve them!
🔎 Start With the Christmas Word Search
The word search is a fun place to begin.
Children can carefully scan the letters and look for the hidden Christmas words one at a time.
When they find a word, they can:
- Circle it with a pencil
- Highlight it
- Draw a line through it
- Use a different colored pencil for each word
Encourage kids to work slowly and check each row carefully.
Sometimes a hidden word seems impossible to find—and then suddenly it jumps right out!
🧠 Turn the Word Search Into a Bigger Christmas Game
Once children have found all the hidden words, the activity doesn’t have to end.
Use the words as inspiration for another little game.
For each Christmas word, ask your child to:
- Explain what the word means
- Use it in a sentence
- Draw a picture of it
- Tell a Christmas story that includes it
- Think of another Christmas word beginning with the same letter
Older children could even write a silly Christmas story using as many of the hidden words as possible.
🌀 Help the Gnomes Through the Christmas Maze
Next comes the maze.
Start at the designated beginning and carefully trace a path through the puzzle until you reach the finish.
Kids can begin with a pencil so they can erase wrong turns.
Or, for an extra challenge, try completing the maze with a crayon or marker without lifting it from the page.
There may be plenty of dead ends along the way, but that’s part of the fun.
If one route doesn’t work, simply go back and try another.
✏️ Try the Maze With Your Finger First
For younger children, it can help to trace the maze with a finger before using a pencil.
Start at the beginning and slowly explore each path.
When a route reaches a dead end, go back and choose another direction.
Once the correct route has been discovered, children can trace it again using a pencil, crayon, or marker.
This makes the activity a little less frustrating for children who are new to mazes.
🎯 A Little Learning Hidden Inside Christmas Fun
Holiday worksheets can be entertaining while also giving children opportunities to practice useful skills.
The word search can encourage:
- Letter recognition
- Spelling awareness
- Visual scanning
- Concentration
- Vocabulary practice
The maze can provide practice with:
- Problem-solving
- Hand-eye coordination
- Pencil control
- Planning ahead
- Persistence
Because everything is wrapped inside a cheerful Christmas theme, it feels much more like play than practice.
🎨 Color the Gnomes When You’re Finished
Once the puzzles are complete, don’t forget about the Christmas gnomes!
If the printable leaves room for coloring, children can use crayons, markers, or colored pencils to give their gnomes festive outfits.
Try classic Christmas colors such as:
- Red
- Forest green
- White
- Gold
- Silver
Or make the gnomes completely whimsical with:
- Pink
- Turquoise
- Purple
- Bright blue
- Rainbow stripes
Their enormous hats are especially fun places to add patterns.
Try stripes, polka dots, stars, snowflakes, candy canes, or tiny Christmas trees.
For even more gnome coloring fun, try the Christmas Gnomes Coloring Page.
✨ Give Each Christmas Gnome a Name
Here’s another easy way to extend the activity.
After completing the puzzles, give each gnome a Christmas-themed name.
Ideas might include:
- Jingle
- Holly
- Merry
- Tinsel
- Snowy
- Peppermint
- Twinkle
- Noel
- Cinnamon
- Frosty
Children could then invent a personality for each one.
Which gnome loves decorating Christmas trees?
Which one wraps Santa’s presents?
Which gnome always gets lost in the maze?
A simple activity page can quickly become a storytelling game.
📖 Make Up a Christmas Gnome Story
Ask children to imagine what the gnomes are doing on the page.
Some storytelling prompts include:
Where do the Christmas gnomes live?
Why are they solving the maze?
What are they trying to find?
Do they work for Santa?
What happens when they finish the word search?
What is their favorite thing about Christmas?
Younger children can tell their story aloud, while older children could write it on the back of the worksheet.
🏫 Perfect for a Classroom Christmas Activity
This printable can also work well during the last few weeks before Christmas break.
Teachers could use it for:
- Morning work
- Early finishers
- Christmas activity centers
- Indoor recess
- Classroom Christmas parties
- Holiday activity packets
- Quiet-time activities
- December brain breaks
Because the page contains more than one activity, children have a little variety without needing several separate worksheets.
Pair it with the Christmas Activity Page for Kids for even more puzzle fun.
🏠 An Easy Christmas Activity at Home
December can become wonderfully busy, and sometimes the best activities are the easiest ones.
Print the page, put a container of pencils and crayons on the table, and let the kids work through it while you:
- Wrap presents
- Bake Christmas cookies
- Prepare dinner
- Decorate the tree
- Watch a Christmas movie
- Enjoy a cup of coffee or hot chocolate
It can also be a handy activity for keeping kids entertained during family gatherings or holiday travel.
🎄 Create a Christmas Activity Station
If one worksheet isn’t enough, create an entire Christmas activity table.
Add this gnome page alongside:
- Christmas Reindeer Dot to Dot
- Color by Numbers: Bear with Tree and Snowman
- Christmas Activities for Kids: Find 2 of the Same Christmas Balls
- Christmas Coloring Pages
Set out crayons, pencils, markers, and perhaps a few Christmas stickers.
Kids can move from one activity to another and choose whichever puzzle or picture catches their attention.
☕ Make It a Cozy December Tradition
Christmas printables can become part of a simple family tradition.
Pick an afternoon in December, turn on some Christmas music, make hot chocolate, and spread several activity sheets across the table.
Children can solve puzzles, color pictures, and compare their finished creations.
No complicated supplies or preparation are necessary—just a printer, some pencils, and a little Christmas spirit.
❤️ Enjoy Some Gnome-Sized Christmas Fun
With cheerful Christmas gnomes, a hidden-word challenge, and a winding maze to solve, this activity page offers plenty to keep little puzzle solvers busy.
Find the words.
Navigate the maze.
Color the gnomes.
Then invent your own story about what these tiny Christmas characters might be doing at the North Pole.
It’s an easy way to add a little extra fun to a cozy December day. 🎄🎅✨
🔗 Related Articles
- Christmas Gnomes Coloring Page
- Christmas Activity Page for Kids
- Christmas Reindeer Dot to Dot
- Color by Numbers: Bear with Tree and Snowman
- Christmas Activities for Kids: Find 2 of the Same Christmas Balls
- Christmas Coloring Pages
