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Christmas Adapted Book UNIT | "When Santa Got Hungry" with File Folder Games, Cookie Sheet Activities & Vocabulary

This engaging "When Santa Got Hungry" Christmas Adapted Book UNIT is packed with 10+ hands-on Christmas activities — designed teach Christmas vocabulary, sequencing, sorting, classification, patterns, color matching, positional concepts, and handwriting in one complete resource!

With TWO adapted books (color teacher copy + black/white student copy), 3 file folder games, 2 cookie sheet activities, 1 clothespin task, handwriting sheets, AND 4 vocabulary extension activities, this unit has everything to fill centers, small groups, and workstations for the entire Christmas season.

Perfect for speech therapy, special education, autism classrooms, early childhood, and general education centers — use it as a whole unit, or pull individual activities for targeted instruction.

★ Perfect for: Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs), Special Education Teachers, Autism Classrooms, Self-Contained Classrooms, Resource Rooms, Early Childhood, PreK, Preschool, Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, paraprofessionals, ABA therapists, and general education teachers looking for a complete Christmas unit:

What's Included in This Christmas UNIT (10+ Activities!):

📖 Adapted Books (2 versions):

• "When Santa Got Hungry" — Color Teacher Copy
• "When Santa Got Hungry" — Black & White Student Copy (perfect for students to keep!)

📁 File Folder Games (3 games):

• Christmas Vocabulary Match-Up
• Christmas Things We Eat / Things We Don't Sort
• Merry Christmas Ornament Patterns File Folder Game

🍪 Cookie Sheet Activities (2 activities):

• Build a Santa Cookie Sheet Activity
• Build a Christmas Tree Cookie Sheet Activity

📌 Clothespin Task:

• Christmas Ornament Color Clips

✏️ Handwriting Practice:

• Christmas Vocabulary Words Handwriting Sheets (Set 29)

🆕 BONUS — 4 Vocabulary Extension Activities (2016 Update!):

• Sequencing
• Classification
• Labeling
• Positional Concepts

Sample Adapted Book Text:

"When Santa got hungry, one long Christmas day,

he opened his mouth and he swallowed his sleigh!

He swallowed some lights and he swallowed a tree.

He swallowed some presents and stockings times three!"

Skills Targeted in This Christmas Unit:

• Christmas vocabulary — Santa, sleigh, lights, tree, presents, stockings, ornaments
• Matching skills — picture-to-picture and picture-to-word
• Sorting & classification — things we eat vs. things we don't, food vs. non-food
• Patterns — Christmas ornament patterns (AB, AABB)
• Color matching — Christmas ornament color clips
• Sequencing — story events sequencing
• Labeling — expressive vocabulary building
• Positional concepts — on, in, under, beside (with the Build a Santa/Tree activities!)
• Building/construction skills — Build a Santa, Build a Christmas Tree
• Handwriting — fine motor + Christmas vocabulary practice
• Fine motor skills — clothespins, cookie sheet manipulation, file folder flaps
• Receptive and expressive language
• Reading comprehension
• Print awareness

Works beautifully for speech therapy sessions, literacy centers, morning work bins, TEACCH-style independent work, and general education Christmas units.

If your students enjoy adapted book units, there are many more in my collection. Please see the complete adapted books collection below.

Complete Adapted Book Units Collection

For more hands-on winter, snowman, Christmas or gingerbread man themed activities, please see the links below:

Hands-On Winter Activities

Hands-On Snowmen Activities

Hands-On Christmas Activities

Hands-On Gingerbread Man Activities