Christmas Logic Puzzles- Holiday Activities for Grades 3 4 5 - Fast Finishers

Looking for a variety of critical thinking activities for centers or fast finishers this Christmas? THIS is IT!!! These December puzzles will engage your students in productive struggle and they might not even know they are using critical thinking skills. 8 unique brain busters will be fun challenges for your antsy students. Open the preview and have a look!

This set has been recently updated. It now includes 2 new puzzles. To upload the new puzzles just go into "My Purchases" and download the file again and you receive the updates for FREE This fun, challenging logic puzzle pack challenges students to use a variety of skills including deductive reasoning and process of elimination. Perfect for any GATE program and early finishers. Also recommended for Scouts and Church Groups. Once you try these brain teasers, you will want more!

NOW Includes 8 Different Logic Puzzles

• Reindeer Games– A matrix grid logic puzzle. Students use clues to match each reindeer with a favorite game. Silly fun.
• Christmas Chores? A matrix grid logic puzzle in which YOUR STUDENTS are the stars! This puzzle is personalized for every single student. I call this Doodle Logic. Have a look!
• Holiday Food Drive! –A math puzzle that requires use of the included data table Incorporates basic math, deduction and convergent thinking. It’s challenging!
• Santa’s Surprise Logic Maze – A maze within a logic puzzle. This is my latest type of puzzle and it is great FUN! Students have to use BOTH the maze and the logic clues to solve the puzzle. They color, cut and move around the characters while using the clues and the maze to solve the brain buster.
• Gingerbread Party – A location logic puzzle. Students use the clues to figure out which kid made which gingerbread cookie. A list of possibilities is included next to each gingerbread cookie to make elimination process easier and model it’s application. Fun critical thinking activity.
• I Love The Lights is a location logic puzzle to color. It comes in two versions, with the color options listed and also without. Your job of differentiation just got easier. I print the two versions back-to-back and let the students choose their challenge level.
• Trim the Tree– This puzzle is quite challenging. It is presented in two formats. The first version is tradition logic puzzle where the students take their own notes before coloring the Christmas tree. The second version has a list of each possible color for each ornament, this allows for quick elimination. Still challenging in either format.
• Overall, I Love The Ornaments is a 2 tiered 6 X 6 Matrix Grid Puzzle. This is the most challenging puzzle of the grid puzzles. Cross referencing and re-reading clues will be essential to solving it.

Includes Answer Keys for all puzzles.

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Students will

· Read carefully and think critically.

· Analyze the clues given to eliminate possibilities.

· Determine what is NOT true to converge on what IS true.

· Use deductive reasoning and critical thinking.

· A couple of the puzzles require some basic computation and knowledge of multiplication for low numbers as well as two and three digit addition and subtraction.

· Work individually or with partners.

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