Christmas Crossword Puzzle

Christmas Songs

This Christmas Crossword Puzzle combines Christmas music and a lot of fun! Solve it on your own, or gather with family and friends to complete this holiday activity together. (You may want to add some hot chocolate and Christmas cookies, too!)

Christmas Crossword Puzzle : Christmas Songs

Each clue contains the title or first line of a well-known Christmas song, but one word is missing. Write the missing word into the correct place in the crossword puzzle diagram.

For best results, use the printable page. For your convenience, the printable page is shown here. The text of the clues appears below. You'll find the solutions on our printable pages.

Clues

Across:

1. Go Tell It on the ___

5. Hark the ___ Angels Sing

7. ___ Bell Rock

9. ___ Wonderland

13. ___ Navidad

14. God Rest You ___, Gentlemen

15. In the __ Midwinter

17. Deck the Halls With ___ of Holly

19. It Came Upon the Midnight ___

20. ___ Ride

23. I Saw Three ___

25. Joy to the World, the ___ has Come

26. We ___ Kings

27. ___ Old St. Nicholas

28. The First ___

29. Angels from the Realms of ___

Down:

2. The ___ Days of Christmas

3. Good ___ Wenceslaus

4. While ___ Watched

6. ___ Baby

8. The Little ___ Boy

10. O Come All Ye Faithful, ___ and Triumphant

11. I'll Be ___ for Christmas

12. Away In a Manger, No ___ for a Bed

15. I Heard the ___ on Christmas Day

16. Grandma Got Run Over By a ___

18. Up on the ___

21. The __ and the Ivy

22. What ___ Is This?

24. O ___ Night

Extension Activities

1. Add to our list of Christmas songs, omitting one word from either the title or the first line. Make up your own quiz. See if your friends and family members can correctly supply each of the missing words.

2. Choose three familiar Christmas songs. Jumble up the words one line of each of the songs. Give your mixed up lines to a friend to solve. Then ask your friend to make three mixed up song lines for you to untangle.

Example: not better cry you you watch better out

Answer: You better watch out, You better not cry (from Santa Claus is Comin' To Town)

3. Make your own Christmas Crossword Puzzle, using graph paper and a ruler, or a crossword creator program. Choose a theme, such as Christmas decorations, Christmas foods & treats, Christmas celebrations, Christmas gifts, or other ideas. Be sure to write out your clues. Double-check your work.

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Looking Ahead

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Ann Richmond Fisher has been a published puzzle writer and educational author for more than 30 years. Ann LOVES to concoct new puzzle formats and solve word games of all kinds! Her puzzles have appeared in Highlights for Children, local newspapers, and dozens of books published by The Education Center, McGraw-Hill and more. Ann is a former classroom and homeschool teacher. See Ann's spelling website at www.spelling-words-well.com.