If your kids love magnetic tiles as much as we do, these Christmas themed challenge cards are such a fun way to explore building and learning at the same time. Magnetic tiles are already an award winning favorite in so many homes and classrooms, and adding a seasonal twist makes them feel new again.
Kids can look at each design, try to copy it with their own tiles, and then answer the simple counting prompts. It becomes a little puzzle, a christmas stem activity, and a creative building challenge all in one.
These activities work really well for preschoolers, early years, and up into the lower primary grades. Younger kids can focus on simply matching the shape, colour and outline of each tile, while slightly older ones can take it further by counting and comparing the magnetic tiles they used. It turns into a fun stem activity without feeling like work at all.
The printables are really easy to use. Just print the page you want, lay it next to your child’s tile set, and let them explore. They can build directly on the floor or on a magnetic board. The simple questions help promote social learning, problem solving, and plenty of hands-on play. Whether you call them magna tiles, magnetic tiles, or anything in between, these make great activities to keep kids busy throughout the Christmas season.
What’s Inside the Magnet Tiles Christmas Printable Pack
This Christmas Magna-Tiles ideas pack includes 11 pages featuring different festive builds. You’ll find two snowmen and three different Christmas gifts, along with lots of other Christmas shapes for kids to copy. Each page includes a simple challenge prompt so children can count shapes and colours as they build.
Build a Magnet Tiles Candy Cane
This page shows a bright and cheerful candy cane made with red and yellow tiles. Kids can copy the shape, then count up the squares and triangles they used. It’s a gentle introduction to building with overlapping colours and simple angles.
Build a Magnet Tiles Christmas Tree
A classic Christmas tree made from green and yellow triangles and a sturdy orange square base. It gives kids a chance to explore symmetry and stacking while working out how many of each tile shape fits into the design.
Build a Magnet Tiles Snowflake
The snowflake page offers more of a puzzle style challenge, with its six pointed shape and mix of triangles and squares. Children can choose whichever colour tiles they prefer and enjoy the process of piecing the design together.
Build a Magnet Tiles Snowman
One of our snowmen includes the classic round body made entirely from triangles, along with colourful arms and head. Kids can look closely at how the shapes fit together and recreate the character using their own tile colours.
Build a Magnetic Tile Snowman (Version 2)
This second snowman design has a taller body shape, with a bright blue centre and a colourful mix of green, orange, and pink triangles to build the hat and arms. It gives kids a slightly different challenge as they look closely at how the triangles fit together around the square body. It’s a fun way to practise copying more detailed shapes while still keeping the build manageable for younger children.
Build a Magnet Tiles Christmas Gift (Version 1)
This gift box design uses red and green squares with a yellow bow on top. It’s a great way for kids to focus on balancing rows and building a neat, blocky shape while counting each colour.
Build a Magnet Tiles Christmas Gift (Version 2)
Another present layout offers a slightly different arrangement of squares and triangles, giving children a fresh challenge without feeling too difficult.
Build a Magnet Tiles Christmas Gift (Version 3)
The third gift design is another variation, encouraging kids to experiment with how many ways they can arrange tile colours to look like a wrapped Christmas present.
Build a Magnet Tiles Christmas Stocking
The stocking shape uses only squares, making it ideal for younger builders or those just getting used to copying picture patterns. Kids can notice how the stocking curves and match the layout themselves.
Build a Magnet Tiles Christmas Wreath
This wreath combines triangles and squares in a circular pattern, along with a bright yellow bow. It’s a great magnetic tile activity for children who enjoy puzzles and shape rotation.
Build a Magnet Tiles Santa Hat
The Santa hat uses lots of red triangles arranged in a slanted shape with a pop of yellow at the tip. Kids can explore angles and longer building lines while they put this one together.
Download the Christmas Magnet Tiles Challenge Cards PDF
You can download the full Christmas Magna-Tiles challenge pack as a free printable PDF and choose whichever designs you want to print. Just grab your magnetic tile set and you’re ready to go.
Terms of use: Our Christmas magnet tiles printable set is free for personal use and classroom use, not for commercial use. Please do not redistribute our PDF files.
These Christmas magnetic tile printables are such an easy way to keep kids busy, learning, and building through the holiday season. They support fine motor skills, early maths concepts, and creative problem solving, all while feeling like simple play. Kids can work independently, in pairs, or as a small group activity.
More Christmas Printables
We have more Christmas printables that work perfectly with manipulatives, early maths play, and hands-on building. These make great quiet table activities at home or in the classroom.
- Free Printable Q Tip Painting Templates For Christmas
- Christmas Counting Cube Pictures Printable
- Free Printable Christmas Do a Dot Pages
- Winter & Christmas Color By Number Pages for Kids {Free Printables}
- Fun Free Christmas Bingo Printable Game
- Popsicle Stick Christmas Pattern Printables
More MagnaTiles Activities
If your kids love tile challenges, we have more magnetic tile activities, puzzles, and step by step magna tiles ideas you can explore.
- Magna Tiles Dress-Up Printables
- Connetix Tiles and Free Printable Building Challenge Cards
- Make a Board Game with Magna Tiles
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Anna Marikar, mum of four and seasoned blogger, has spent over a decade sharing her parenting journey and passion for kid-friendly crafts and free printables.
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