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These free Christmas directed drawing worksheets give you four grid drawing puzzles: children start at the red dot and follow the arrow code square by square to draw a Christmas tree, a present, a stocking and a gingerbread house. Each worksheet has an answer page and comes on US Letter and A4, in colour and in black and white. I’m Patrick Elliott, a teacher and Inclusion Lead. I designed the four Christmas pictures myself as original grid outlines, then checked every arrow code by following it move by move to make sure it closes the picture exactly at the start dot.

In this guide, you’ll find which Christmas picture suits which age, how to teach children to read the arrow code, and how to check their drawings with the answer pages.

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What’s in the Christmas Directed Drawing Worksheets

Worksheet	What is on it
Christmas Tree Directed Drawing	Hard: 76 arrow moves, with the finished picture
Present Directed Drawing	Easy: 32 arrow moves, with the finished picture
Stocking Directed Drawing	Easy: 20 arrow moves, with the finished picture
Gingerbread House Directed Drawing	Hard: 58 arrow moves, with the finished picture

👉 Each box in the code is one move: “3 →” means draw a line 3 squares to the right along the grid lines. Page 2 of every file shows the finished picture, so you can check each drawing.

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What Is a Christmas Directed Drawing Worksheet?

A directed drawing usually means copying a picture one step at a time. On these grid drawing worksheets, children follow written directions instead: they start at the red dot, read the arrow code in order, row by row, and draw each move along the lines of the grid. When the last move is done, the line meets the dot again and a Christmas picture appears. Nobody knows what it is until the end, so children check their own counting as they go. It is counting, left and right, and following directions practice that feels like a Christmas puzzle. The four pictures are original grid outlines designed by Patrick Elliott for Word Made Easy.

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Which Christmas Directed Drawing Should You Choose?

• Stocking Directed Drawing (easy): 20 arrow moves on a 13 x 15 grid, the best first one to try.
• Present Directed Drawing (easy): 32 arrow moves on a 15 x 14 grid, with a bow on top.
• Gingerbread House Directed Drawing (hard): 58 arrow moves on a 19 x 19 grid, with a chimney.
• Christmas Tree Directed Drawing (hard): 76 arrow moves on a 19 x 19 grid, the longest code in the set.
• Answer pages: page 2 of every file shows the finished outline on the same grid.
• Looking for pictures for the rest of the year? The directed drawing worksheets use the same arrow code for a house, a rocket, a cat face and a fish, and the coordinate graphing mystery pictures use ordered pairs instead.

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How to Use the Christmas Directed Drawing Worksheets

1. Choose your paper size above, download the ZIP and print page 1 of each file, one per child.
2. Show one box on the board: count the squares first, then draw that many along the grid lines in the direction of the arrow.
3. Ask children to tick each box when they have drawn it, so they never lose their place in the code.
4. Read the moves aloud for younger children, or let confident children work on their own.
5. Check the drawing with the answer page, then let children colour and decorate their Christmas picture.

Start with the stocking: it has the fewest moves, so children learn the arrow code before the longer pictures. If an outline does not close, go back to the last box that was right and count again, because most slips are one square out. For more December activities, try the how to draw Santa worksheets and the Christmas code breaker worksheets.

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Black and White Versions

Every Christmas directed drawing worksheet also comes in black and white: the same arrow code and grid, with a black start dot and grey grid lines, so it prints clearly on any printer. In the download box, choose Colour, Black and white or All, then your paper size: A4, US Letter or both.

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How to Print the Christmas Directed Drawing Worksheets

Print at 100% (Actual size) on the same paper as the file, US Letter or A4, so the grid squares stay square. Each file has the worksheet on page 1 and the finished picture on page 2, so print page 1 only for the class and keep page 2 as your answer key.

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Conclusion

These Christmas directed drawing worksheets turn December into counting and following-directions practice, with a surprise picture at the end of every code, made by a teacher in Microsoft Word.

Choose your paper size above, download the ZIP, and for another December puzzle, try the christmas mazes for kids.

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Related Tutorials

• Free Christmas Mazes for Kids
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• Free Christmas Code Breaker Worksheets for Word