What's Missing with Christmas

Find the missing piece! On this Kindergarten worksheet a picture of Christmas things has a piece missing, and the child picks the cutout that completes it. The task is to picture the whole image, see the gap, and choose what restores it. Completing a picture this way — imagining the a tree, a bauble and a stocking as they should be — builds early inference, and the familiar pictures keep it inviting.

An incomplete picture invites a child to finish it: see the empty space, imagine what is gone, and choose the piece that brings the image back to whole. Reasoning from the part that is present to the part that is missing builds early inference, and a Christmas things picture keeps the practice simple and hands-on. Each found piece restores a little more of the whole.

Children love finding the piece that makes a picture whole again, and completing the puzzle feels satisfying. When this is easy, find the missing piece in what's missing with classroom objects, or try what's missing with easter. You can also browse every missing-piece puzzle or the whole kindergarten collection — each sheet prints cleanly or plays online for free, and the more pictures a child completes, the sharper their eye grows for what is missing and what it takes to make a picture whole again.