Christmas Writing Paper With Decorative Borders

Candy Cane Page

Interwoven candy canes make their way around this generic holiday writing paper to stimulate your students' best efforts. Have students write a letter to Santa, or perhaps have them write to their parents, a friend, or a relative. Enhance the lesson by having students correctly address envelopes to the person or people to whom they are sending letters. 

Make the lesson even more memorable by making homemade candy canes. If the students are very young, consider making the homemade candies at home and bringing them in. Give each student a candy cane to attach to their letters. If your students are a bit older, consider making the candy canes with their help.

Holly Bordered Page

Holly adds a festive touch to a Christmas writing activity. You can also enhance this lesson by bringing a bit of real holly to show the students. Turn the letter-writing event into a botany lesson by explaining to students that there are 18 species of holly and that this plant can be deciduous or evergreen and grow into trees, shrubs, or lianas.

Christmas Tree Light Page

A string of Christmas tree lights acts as a border for this Christmas writing page. It may inspire your students to write about their Christmas tree and other family traditions. It's easy to enhance this lesson: Bring in Christmas lights and string them around the room or even around a bulletin board where you'll display the letters. You can even turn this into a science project by talking about who invented the light bulb and how electric lights work.

Christmas Snowflake Page

This paper with a border of snowflakes would be a great page to use to write about favorite winter activities. If students are struggling to think of activities, prompt them by writing the following activities on the board:

• Ice skating
• Sledding
• Downhill cross-country skiing.
• Building a snowman or snow fort
• Having a snowball fight
• Going on a winter hike
• Going ice fishing
• Going snow tubing
• Playing pond hockey.
• Shoveling snow for someone in need

If you're not in a region where these activities occur, find videos or images on the internet or even pictures from magazines to show students.