New Year Activities 2026

About this resource

Looking for new year activities 2026 that a whole table of children can do at once? This pack gives grades 1 to 4 nine different jobs for the first weeks back in January: find hidden words, match pictures to words, count down and count on ten frames, draw and write about the new year, cut and paste sentences and months into order, read six short customs from around the world, and compare last year with next year. Every student page has a big "My name" line, one short instruction with a small picture, and room to work.

EVERYTHING INSIDE (26 pages)

• 14 student pages in 9 kinds of activity
• Word Search: 3 puzzles (a 4 x 4 grid with words across only, a 5 x 5 grid and a 7 x 7 grid with words across and down), 13 hidden words in all, each with a ruled box to write it in
• Words and Pictures: 6 pictures to name, with a Word Box of 8 words (2 words fit no picture)
• Countdown: 3 countdowns of ten boxes (down from 10, down by 2s from 20, down by 10s from 100), 12 missing numbers to write
• Ten Frames: 6 ten frames to count, each with a "How many?" box and a "How many more to make 10?" box
• My New Year Picture: a big picture box and 3 lines, with the starters "In the new year I will", "I want to learn" and "I hope" printed
• Cut and Paste: 3 pages, 6 sentences of 5 word pieces each (30 pieces), with a picture to color for each one; the first page has the words traced on gray, pages two and three have empty paste boxes
• Months in Order: 12 month pieces to cut out and paste into 12 numbered boxes
• Around the World: 6 short customs to read (Spain, Japan, Denmark, New York City, Sydney and Scotland), then 6 circle-the-answer questions
• Last Year, Next Year: 2 columns and 3 rows, 6 writing boxes with 3 lines in each
• 1 answer key page (all 3 word searches drawn with the words shaded)
• 1 teacher log (a row for each of the 14 student pages), 1 class grid (15 students), 1 filled example (an invented student)
• 1 family note with three ways to help at home, 1 phrase bank of 15 observable-language starters
• 1 binder cover and 6 divider tabs with a spine label to cut out
• Start Here and terms of use

Built For The Child Holding The Page

Big type in a rounded beginning-reader font, boxes with real room, one instruction with a small picture, and nothing written for adults on a student page: no score, no goal wording. Each activity comes with its own picture or grid, and the cut pages have 10 or 12 pieces that touch edge to edge, so each cut is one straight line. Dots at the top right mark how much each page asks.

Type In, Or Print

The name and date lines, the writing boxes, the log, the class grid and the family note are type-in fields in any PDF reader. The ten frames, the picture box and the cut pieces are for pencil, crayon and scissors. Every page prints clean in black and white. This is a fillable PDF; it is not a Google Slides or PowerPoint file.

Who This Is For

Teachers in grades 1 to 4: self-contained and resource rooms, centers and stations, early finishers, small groups, sub plans, tutors and families who want a New Year pack with a different job on every page. Some children celebrate on January 1 and some do not; the pages are about words, numbers, customs and plans, not about what any holiday means.

What This Is, And What It Is Not

Activity pages with the record-keeping around them. The answer key is for the teacher; student pages carry no score. It is not a timed test, a screener or a clinical tool, and there is no IEP goal language or eligibility wording anywhere in the file. The customs on the reading page are short plain facts written as "many people" or "some people"; nothing about what any holiday means.