10 Printable Festive Christmas Mad Libs For Kids

Want to have a good laugh with your kids this holiday season while also sharpening their language arts skills? Try these 10 Printable Festive Christmas Mad Libs For Kids!

Mad Libs are a creative way to introduce different parts of speech to children without them even realizing it. Most importantly, mad libs are fun for all ages…even adults! As you prepare for the big day, this Christmas game will put everyone in the holiday spirit.

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What do kids learn from mad libs?

Mad libs help kids to identify a part of speech while also strengthening their understanding of the English language. Mad libs will also build vocabulary skills since kids will think carefully about which word to fill in the blank.

These silly stories also encourage their creative writing. Often, after playing Mad Libs, my kids will try writing some in their own words.

How do you play Mad Libs?

The easiest way to play is to designate one child to be the writer. A second student answers the questions that the writer asks from the blanks in the narrative, usually parts of speech questions. The writer will fill in the missing words with adjectives, verbs, adverbs, interjections, etc. The writer shouldn’t let anyone else see the answers! When all the blanks are filled in, either child reads the funny story out loud.

There are other variations of this game as well. If you are in a group, you can pass the paper around and have each person take a turn calling out the part of speech and filling in the blank. The last person to get the paper can read the final story to everyone else.

What if a child doesn’t know these parts of speech?

Kids of all ages can learn and strengthen their English language even if they haven’t had formal lessons in this subject yet.

When I played this game with our kids, my five-year-old joined in by asking, “What’s a verb?” When I explained it, I was surprised that he understood and could quickly come up with a good word. Kids can easily learn as they go along.

In these mad lib stories, I have included nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs. I also have some blanks with plural nouns.

Ways to Use Mad Libs

As you homeschool this holiday season, you can incorporate these mad libs games as part of your English lessons. Or, if you are taking time off from school work, give them to your kids during your Christmas break. Either way, they will have so much fun, they won’t even realize how much they are learning while playing this Christmas game.

Mad libs are great entertainment for parties, cookie exchanges, ice-breakers, or family fun nights. You can do one mad lib game a day leading up to Christmas or speed through all of them in one setting.

Enjoy the world’s greatest word game at your next Christmas dinner or Christmas party for a funny story. Or read them aloud with your entire family by having your kids read them to everyone on Christmas Eve.

Create Your Own Mad Libs!

My kids had so much fun playing these games that they wanted to do it over and over. I was surprised after they finished a few of them, they decided to try writing some of their own. They were pretty good too!

Writing your own Mad Lib story is not as simple as you think. We found it helpful to come up with a topic first and then start the story from there. When I wrote mine, I liked writing my stories without any blanks for the first draft and then erasing words and putting in blanks later. But my kids liked to put the blanks in as they were writing. Both ways worked. Find the method that works for you. Either way, your creative juices will be flowing as you and the kids laugh your way through your silly stories!

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What’s included in the download?

This PDF has 10 colorful Christmas printable Mad Libs in US letter size. This is a PDF download for your computer, tablet, or smartphone. If you want a physical copy you will have to print it off. For personal use only, please.

This collection has stories about candy canes, baking cookies, decorating your Christmas tree, caroling, stringing colored lights, building a snowman, and more!