Looking for a Christmas art lesson that is joyful, skill-building, and incredibly easy to implement with your K–3 students or homeschool learners? This Reindeer Christmas Art Project is a festive, literacy-integrated holiday art activity designed to spark creativity, teach essential drawing skills, and keep kids engaged with purposeful, standards-aligned work. This resource is packed with step-by-step guided drawing pages, reading comprehension, writing activities, art reflections, an anchor chart, a KWL chart, rubrics, a puzzle hook, and more—giving you everything you need for a magical and meaningful Christmas art lesson.

Inside this resource, you’ll find an easy-to-teach reindeer art lesson, using oil pastel techniques, kid-friendly instructions, and visuals that make your lesson flow smoothly. Whether you're a classroom teacher looking for a seasonal activity, an art educator planning December lessons, or a homeschool parent wanting a no-prep Christmas project—this resource creates a joyful experience from start to finish. Students draw, color, explore holiday traditions, compare real reindeer vs. Christmas reindeer, complete literacy tasks, and proudly reflect on their creative process.

About This Christmas Art Resource

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This engaging Christmas art lesson includes everything shown in the PDF, including:

• Full Step-by-Step Directed Drawing Pages for creating a reindeer using oil pastels
• Lesson Plan with materials, hook, participation strategies, and concluding activities (pp. 5–7)
• Picture Puzzle Hook to activate thinking and build excitement (p. 15)
• KWL Chart: Reindeer (p. 16)
• About Christmas Around the World Reading Page (p. 11)
• "How to Draw a Reindeer" Visual Steps (p. 12)
• Art Rubric (p. 13)
• Teacher Guide: Christmas & Real Reindeer + mini-lessons (pp. 8–10)
• Anchor Chart: Wild Reindeer vs. Christmas Reindeer (p. 10)
• Reading Comprehension Story: The Little Reindeer Gift + Question Pages + Answer Key (pp. 17–20)
• Sight Word List + Tricky Word Bank (pp. 21–22)
• Opinion Writing Page: Christmas (p. 23–24)
• Reindeer Write & Draw Prompt (p. 25–26)
• 3 Stars & a Wish Reflection Pages (p. 34)
• Artwork Reflection Pages (pp. 27, 33, 36, 37)
• Artist’s Statement Pages (p. 35)
• Compare & Contrast Chart + Answer Key (pp. 29–30)
• Creative Process Magazine Cover Page (p. 28)
• Elements of Art Activities: Value + Line Exploration (pp. 38–39)
• Bulletin Board Display Poster (p. 14)
• Step-by-Step Photo Tutorial (pp. 41–53)

Everything is ready for instant use—simply print and teach!

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• Step-by-step directed drawing pages
• Full teacher lesson plan
• Visual demonstration pages
• Christmas Around the World reading
• Literacy extension activities
• Reading comprehension story + questions + answer key
• Opinion writing + creative writing prompts
• Compare & Contrast worksheet + answer key
• KWL chart
• Reindeer anchor chart
• Picture puzzle hook
• Art rubric
• Reflective writing pages
• Artist’s statements
• Elements of Art extensions
• Bulletin board sign + example artwork
• Printable student worksheets