I have always loved the different Christmas stories! And the Polar Express is one of my favorites. You can read the story over and over and enjoy every part of it!
The Free Polar Express printable pack has some fun elements from the story to help kids learn in fun ways.
You will find loads of activities to help make learning loads of fun.
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This is a great addition to the Christmas printables on the site. Plus who does not love having a book that you can use with the pack!
These Polar Express Pack printables are to be used with children from 2 to 7. This pack was made to go with the following book Polar Express.
These activities are fun and easy to use. Plus they change up learning. These are great for any North Pole Theme as well as any Christmas Train theme you might do!
You will find a mix of no-prep and hands-on activities that kids can do!
Things to use with the Polar Express & North Pole Themed Pack
I always get asked what we use with the printables. And this is a list of some of the items we used with this pack.
- printer
- copy paper
- white cardstock
- laminator
- laminating pouches
- crayons
- markers
- dot marker
or bingo daubers
- pencil
- glue stick
- clear counters
- clothespins
- abc stamps
- scissors
- Polar Express
- Polar Express 30th anniversary edition
Check out more information about the Polar Express Pack
You will get some details about parts of the Polar Express Pack below. Plus there is a full list of what is in the pack as well.
Polar Express & North Pole Vocab Cards
You have two sets of vocab cards you have a normal set of cards and 3 part cards for the vocab cards. You have nine cards for kids to use with the Polar Express book or other North Pole Themed Books.
Polar Express Prewriting Prinatbles
You have a fun prewriting worksheet with the Christmas Train getting to Santa. You have four different prewriting lines to work on your writing.
Polar Express Pattern Activity
You have a set of pattern cards that are a great kindergarten Polar Express math Activity. You can create ABC patterns with the three cards of the boy, the bell, and Santa.
Polar Express Printable 4 Piece Puzzles
You have several four piece puzzles for the Polar Express story. They all have four pieces and are great for matching and making pictures. These are great preschool Polar Express activities.
Polar Express Printable 10 Piece Puzzles
These 10 piece puzzles have three sets of puzzles with 1 to 10, 11 to 20, and 21 to 30. These puzzles are a great kindergarten Polar express activity.
Polar Express Number Clip Cards 1 to 15
The number clip cards work on numbers from 1 to 15. You can count from 1 to 15 with the clip cards. Each card is a part from the Polar Express story for kids to count. These are great kindergarten Polar Express Printable.
Polar Express Dot Marker Printables
The Polar Express Dot Marker printables are great for preschool fine motor activities. You have hot chocolate, Santa, elf, Conductor, bell, Christmas Tree, Boy, Polar Express Train, and gift. Each Polar Express dot marker printable has the picture and dots for kids to cover with items or use dot markers on.
Polar Express Words Beginning Sounds
You can work on beginning sounds for the Polar Express vocab cards with a Polar Express Worksheet or clip cards. They are easy to great to see if they noticed the beginning sound from the cards. You can use the cards as an answer key for the clip cards or worksheet.
Trace Polar Express Words & Matching
A simple kindergraten worksheet for kids to trace the Polar Express words and then match them to the correct picture on the page. It is a simple and easy single page worksheet.
Polar Express Matching Pictures Worksheet
You have a single page with pictures on both sides of the page. You match the pictures on each side by drawing a line to connect them. This is a great prek worksheet for the Polar Express.
Letter B Find for the Polar Express
You can find the letter be with uppercase letters and lowercase letters. You have a picture of the bell with uppercase B and lowercase b on the page. Then there is a mix of letters below for kids to find the letter b. This is a great worksheet for kindergarten age kids and those that might need more of a challenge in PreK.
Polar Express Printable ABC Maze
You follow the ABCs in order through the letters starting at the letter A and going to the Letter Z at Santa. This is a great way to work on alphabet letter order mixed in with letters around them. This is a great kindergarten worksheet.
Gift Sorting by Size
You have three sizes of gifts with small, medium, and large. Then you sort the three sizes of the gifts on the mat. This is a great hands-on activity for prek kids.
Polar Express Writing Printable
You can work on writing about the bell, Santa, and the Polar Express. Each writing worksheet has you write a sentence using the word. It is a great kindergarten and first grade Polar Express printable.
Polar Express Color by Number Christmas Tree
You have numbers 1 to 7 and colors for each number to color the Christmas tree! This is a great prek and kindergarten number printable to use with the polar express.
Polar Express Pocket Chart Cards
You have ten pocket chart cards to use with kids. You have boy, conductor, polar express, bell, Christmas tree, elf, hot chocolate, Santa, gift and track for the words. These are all great words from the book.
Polar Express Words Trace Beginning Sounds
You have the lowercase beginning letter of each of the words from the pocket chart chards. This works great for working on beginning sounds for kids and tracing lowercase letters.
Polar Express Words Trace the Words Printable
You have the words from the polar express pocket chart cards to trace for kids. Each of the words is in guidelines for them to trace the words.
Polar Express Words write the Word Printable
You have ten writing strips that can be used for beginning sounds or writing the words. The polar express writing strips work great with the pocket chart cards to help kids write the words.
Polar Express Find the Same Printables
You have a great prek and kindergarten printable for kids to look at the first picture and find the picture that is the same size. You have big and small pictures on each row. You have two pictures that are the same. This is a great visual activity for kids to do.
Match the Color of the Bell
You have fun colored bells to use as color matching cards. You have 10 different colored bells for kids to use. This is a great kindergarten and prek activity for Polar Express.
Train Math Mats
You have four polar express math mats. These mats work on addition, subtraction, counting and comparing numbers.
Count the Trains
You pull a number and then count out that many trains cars out to add that mat.
Add the Trains
You pull two numbers and then add the numbers together. You match the train cars to the numbers on the mat then add them together and solve for the two numbers.
Subtract the Trains
You pull two numbers and then subtract the smaller number from the bigger number. You can pull train cars to match the biggest number and then take away the train cars for the smaller number. then you solve the subtraction problem. This is a great visual way to work on subtraction.
Greater Than / Less Than the Trains
The final polar express math mat is a comparing number mat. This lets you compare two numbers and note which is bigger or smaller. You start by pulling two numbers and then put the train cars to match the number. Then compare the numbers on the mat.
Polar Express Making CVC Words
You have a list of CVC Word Codes chart based on Polar Express Beginning Sound Words. You have two pages of CVC word worksheets based on the code chart. You have make the CVC words and sound them out and have fun with those words.
Polar Express 100 Chart
This is a great first grade worksheet 100 chart for kids to color and figure out what the picture is from the Polar Express story.
Color the Bell Pattern
You have lines of bells to color in different patterns. You can pick the patterns and color an AB or ABC pattern.
Check out more information about the Polar Express Tot Pack
You will get some details about parts of the Polar Express Tot Pack below. Plus there is a full list of what is in the pack as well.
Polar Express Prewriting Pages
You have three sets of thick prewriting lines for kids to trace. You have the train going to Santa for each line. These are simple lines that are the start of prewriting. They are a solid prewriting line that is great for a preschool prewriting printable.
Polar Express 2 Piece Puzzles
You have two piece puzzles for kids to match. They have a lot of the people and parts from the story for them to match. The two piece puzzles are a great tot and preschool activity.
Polar Express Color the Bell Book
You have eleven colors in a book for kids to read and color the bell. The bell book is a simple way to work on colors.
Polar Express Matching Cards
The polar express matching cards are great for preschool and tot age kids to match the same picture. You can use all 9 or use a small set to start matching. You can also use the words with the cards like: “Find the other Santa card”.
Polar Express 9 Piece Puzzles
You have a fun 9 piece puzzle for kids to make. It has a train, the boy, and the conductor in the snow. You can print the puzzle off twice and have kids match the same piece. Or you can let older kids make the puzzle on their own.
What you will find in the Free Polar Express Pack contains over 70 pages:
(Part 1)
Polar Express and Christmas Train themed 3 Part Cards, Which One is Different, What comes next, Prewriting Practice, Pattern Cards with the boy, the bell and Santa, Matching Cards, Christmas 4 Piece Puzzles, 10 Piece Puzzles in color and black and white (1 to 10, 11 to 20, 21-30), Christmas Number Clip Cards ( with numbers 1-15), Polar Express Dot Marker pages
(Part 2)
Polar Express Beginning Sound Clip Cards, Polar Express Picture and Word Matching, Letter B Find, ABC Dot the Letter Path, Size Sorting Presents, Writing Pages for Bell, Polar Express, Santa, Letter Color and Trace for letters P, G, S, Polar Express Pocket Chart Words, Tracing lowercase beginning letter sound, Tracing Polar Express Words, Write Polar Express Words, Find the Same, Bell Color matching, Add the Train Carts, Subtract the Train Carts, Greater Than/Less Than Train Carts, Count the Train Carts, Polar Express CVC words, Color the 100 Chart Picture
(Part 3)
Color the Bell Patterns, Fill in the Missing Pattern, Polar Express Stamping ABC letters, Polar Express Small Folding Word Book (Read and Tracing Options), Color the picture as you read the Story, Color by Addition
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What you will find in the Free Polar Express Tot Pack containing 13 pages
Train to Santa Thick Line Prewriting, 2 Part Puzzles, Matching Cards, Color the Bell Small Book, 9 Piece Puzzle
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Check out these other Christmas and Polar Express Printables
Polar Express Finger Puppets work great with this themed pack.
Free Polar Express Coloring lets your work on beginning sounds that match this themed pack
Polar Express Gross Motor is a great gross motor activity you can do with the book.
Jingle Bell Count by JDaniel4’s Mom is a great Polar Express counting activity that you can do with kids.
Christmas Cookies for Santa is a fun easy reader book to read about cookie shapes.
Christmas Word Puzzles lets you build Christmas words with puzzles and recording list.
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