Gift Planning Committee Log

This worksheet is designed for students in Grades 3, 4, and 5 to strengthen addition skills, budgeting awareness, and real-world decision-making through a festive gift-planning scenario. Learners help Santa choose presents for four children by reviewing a price list, matching gifts to each child’s interests, recording costs in an organized chart, and calculating totals to stay under a $100 budget, combining careful reading, math accuracy, and thoughtful reasoning.

Skills Reinforced

• Addition & Cost Calculation (Grades 3-5) – Students add prices accurately and track spending.
• Budgeting & Financial Literacy – Learners practice staying within a fixed budget while making choices.
• Critical Thinking & Decision-Making – Encourages balancing constraints with personal preferences.
• Reading & Information Transfer – Requires careful interpretation of lists and accurate recording of data.

Instructional Benefits

• Teacher-Created Resource – Designed by educators to support elementary math and financial literacy standards.
• Real-World Math Application – Connects arithmetic to realistic budgeting scenarios.
• Engaging Holiday Context – Santa-themed task increases motivation and relevance.
• Low-Prep & Printable – Easy to use for math lessons, centers, enrichment, or homeschool instruction.

This printable budgeting worksheet helps students see how math applies to everyday decision-making in a fun, seasonal setting. By choosing gifts, comparing prices, and totaling costs, learners strengthen number sense, financial awareness, and evaluative reasoning. Ideal for classroom or homeschool use, this activity provides meaningful practice with money skills while encouraging thoughtful, responsible choices during the holiday season.

This worksheet is part of our Christmas Worksheets collection.