Print and play with these Father Christmas printables ~ perfect to go with play dough!
QUICK RESOURCE >> Download your ready-made Nativity Unit here
Father Christmas puppet printables for playdough
Playdough, puppets, and Father Christmas ~ a match made in festive heaven! These little puppets are so fun to use for imaginative play and story telling.
Print your puppets on card rather than paper to get stronger puppets, better for play.
Cut out each image and fasten onto a lollipop/craft stick or toothpick to turn them into puppets.
Or laminate them and they should stand up by themselves.
Add in some play dough! It’s such a versatile play material.
You can use some to make a snowy landscape or Santa’s sleigh, and the sticks on the puppets will stand up in the dough so you can play with your puppets.
Add in a different colour of play dough and some gift wrap bows and you can make lots of presents!
Try our snow play dough recipe, our orange and spice play dough recipe or our Christmas Day play dough.
Download your ready-made Nativity Unit
Download the Play Academy’s ready-made Nativity Unit and you’ll have everything you need to lead a set of activities to introduce your children to the Nativity story.This Unit includes artist-drawn puppets/colour-in nativity scene characters and printable Bible verse cards, that your children can use year after year.
In this Nativity teaching unit your children can:
:: learn about the Nativity and create their own Nativity book or small world scene using colour-in puppet / nativity scene characters
:: learn about Mary and Joseph’s journey, and explore junk modelling
:: learn about the shepherds role, and explore loose parts
:: learn about Jesus’ birth
:: learn about the three wise men, and complete their book / re-tell the story in their small world
Bonus Nativity thematic unit printables
The Play Academy’s thematic units come with practical printables that make the lessons more engaging for your children and easier for you to teach.
No need to go searching for printables to accompany your lessons, they’re all included when you download your chosen unit.
In this Nativity Unit you’ll receive these bonus printables:
:: My Nativity Story book to write, colour and complete to tell the Nativity story
:: a set of artist-drawn My Nativity Puppets to colour, cut out and use to re-cap and act out the Nativity story
:: Nativity Vocabulary Cards to recap and consolidate learning
:: Nativity Bible Verse Cards to read, narrate your own acting out of the story, and perhaps to memorise
How to download this Nativity thematic unit
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Wow! Thanks so much Cathy! These are wonderful. Looks like we’ll be making Christmas playdough this weekend 🙂
Hi there,
I cannot find these Christmas puppet printables with the link. I can access others, but can’t see the Xmas ones. Can you help?
Thanks Annita
Hi Annita. Did you follow the steps in this article? Which step didn’t work for you?
These are awesome! Do you know of any Nativity printables like this?
Hi Patrice. What about these ones by Joel? https://www.pinterest.com/pin/156359418286740575/ or make some like Jackie? https://happyhooligans.ca/toilet-roll-nativity-set/
Thanks, Cathy. I like the ones made by Joel. They are nice and simple. I have already done the toilet roll nativity set.
Thanks so much. The two kinders I have worked at this year have really enjoyed these templates. Well done.
Thanks Judy. I’m really happy to hear they’ve enjoyed them.
This was such a good way to extend our playdough play. We made “Christmas” color and scented playdough last week but it was getting old. My littles were happy to play independently with this addition (win!) but I was having too much fun to leave it all to them. Thanks!
That’s great to hear Lila. Glad you all had fun.