7th Grade Christmas Worksheets

Seventh graders still want something festive in December, but it has to be real 7th grade work. These 7th grade Christmas worksheets keep the holiday theme and the rigor: students scale a cookie recipe with proportions, work out holiday sale prices with percents, add integers with winter temperatures, solve equations and find probabilities. Reading pages cover the mood of A Christmas Carol and soldiers' letters from the 1914 Christmas Truce. Every worksheet is assigned to 7th grade and includes an answer key.

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7th Grade Christmas Math

The math worksheets connect the holiday to the big ideas of 7th grade. Students use ratios and proportions to scale a recipe and compare tree-farm prices (7.RP.A.2), solve multi-step percent problems about holiday sales, tax and tips (7.RP.A.3), add and subtract integers with winter temperature changes (7.NS.A.1), write and solve equations from Christmas word problems (7.EE.B.4), find the area of circles in gift-wrapping problems (7.G.B.4) and use survey samples and probability (7.SP.A.1, 7.SP.C.5). For the full set, visit 7th grade Christmas math worksheets.

7th Grade Christmas Reading

A mood lesson on A Christmas Carol asks students to explain how Dickens uses word choice to make the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come frightening (RL.7.4). A primary-source lesson uses soldiers' letters from the 1914 Christmas Truce, so students practice asking who wrote a source, when and why (RH.6-8.1, RH.6-8.6). Both lead naturally into a short written response or class discussion.

Skills Covered

• Ratios and proportions: scale recipes and compare unit rates (7.RP.A.2).
• Percent problems: discounts, sales tax and tips (7.RP.A.3).
• Integers: add and subtract positive and negative numbers (7.NS.A.1).
• Equations: write and solve two-step equations from word problems (7.EE.B.4).
• Geometry and statistics: area of circles, samples and probability.
• Reading: mood and word choice, primary sources (RL.7.4, RH.6-8.6).

Why Holiday Math Works in 7th Grade

Seventh grade math is full of real-world skills, and the holidays give students problems they care about. Scaling a cookie recipe for 30 classmates or working out the price of a sweater after a 25% discount and sales tax are the same skills students need for tests, but they feel like real life. Each page mixes several types of problems, so you can quickly see which skills your class still needs before the semester ends.

Ideas for the Week Before Winter Break

• Holiday math stations: put the recipe, sale, temperature and probability pages at four tables and let groups rotate.
• Primary source day: read the Christmas Truce letters together, then discuss why the truce happened and why it did not last.
• Sub plan: every worksheet is self-contained and has an answer key.

Need a different level? The 6th grade Christmas worksheets and 8th grade Christmas worksheets use the same holiday theme one level down or up.

All worksheets print in black and white on US Letter paper, leave enough space for students to show their work and use US spelling. Answer keys show worked solutions for the multi-step problems, so you can find exactly where a student went wrong. Because each worksheet is assigned to 7th grade only, the problems match what your students are learning this fall, and the same holiday theme continues on the 6th and 8th grade pages if some students need support or a challenge.

Students who finish early can write their own holiday word problem for a classmate to solve, which is a quick way to check whether they really understand percents or proportions.

Detailed Coloring Pages

Patterned Christmas trees, wreaths, ornaments, stockings and mandala pages give 7th graders a calm activity for the last afternoon before break. They are also a good choice for students who finish a test early.