These Christmas Pixel Puzzles are a great way to introduce image representation on computers as well as work on number and color recognition.
Computers break pictures down into tiny blocks of color known as pixels. Pixels are organized in a grid and each block contains a single color. When you combine the pixels, they create pictures.
The more pixels there are, the higher the resolution the picture has. High-resolution pictures are more detailed and appear smoother than low-resolution pictures.
Christmas Pixel Color by Number Puzzles
A pixel is a unit of a digital image, typically a tiny square that has a single color. Pixel is short for picture element.
These Christmas Pixel Pictures have a resolution of 625 pixels (25X25) and 225 pixels (15X15). Each square on the grid has a number that indicates the color that should be colored in that square. Look up the colors using the key.
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Program Your Christmas Pixel Pictures
Think about the different ways you can complete your pixel pictures. You can color all of the squares in one row before moving to the next or you could color all of the squares of one color before moving on to another color.
You could work in a section and branch out from a square until you have to move on to another uncolored square. Another fun way to complete your pictures would be to work with a partner and a plain piece of graph paper.
Read the numbers to your partner and have them color the squares as you go.
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Color by Sight Word Pixel Puzzle
Try a different style Christmas pixel puzzle with this color by sight word pixel puzzle!
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How Do Computers Store Images?
Computers take images and convert each pixel into a number that is stored with a corresponding string of numbers. In computers, the numbers used are all 0’s and 1’s called binary code.
Careers that work with digital images include graphic designers who design images for marketing, advertising, product packaging, and more.
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Christmas Coding Activities
Find more Christmas coding activities to work on computational thinking and beginning coding skills!
Christmas Sudoku Logical Reasoning Activity for Kids
Sudoku is a great activity to strengthen logical reasoning skills and decomposition skills while working with a simple algorithm, a series of instructions for solving problems.
Christmas Algorithm Art Directed Drawing Unplugged Coding Activity
This Christmas tree algorithm art activity is a great unplugged coding activity for kids K-8 to learn how actions can be turned into algorithms.
After completing the activity, kids can work together to communicate their written program to their peers or siblings to test out and debug their Christmas tree code.
Dress the Elf With this Christmas Boolean Logic Activity
Trixie the Elf needs helping searching for the perfect outfit for each day of the week. Learn how to use boolean expressions to narrow down exactly the right outfit in this Christmas Elf boolean logic activity.
Test Your Logical Thinking with this Christmas Logic Word Puzzle
Logic puzzles are a great activity to strengthen logical reasoning skills, boolean, and comparison skills while working with a series of selection statements.
This Christmas logic word puzzle activity is a way for kids to use logical thinking and pattern matching paired with spatial recognition and spelling.
Guess Who? Santa's Elves Unplugged Boolean Coding Activity
Learn about boolean and comparison operators with this Guess the Elf boolean coding activity! Boolean logic sounds like a pretty complex concept, but it’s actually very easy to understand.
Booleans are a type of data that has two values either true or false that can be used to evaluate logical questions.
Winter Unplugged Coding Worksheet: Frosty Sequences
Find the correct sequence to help Frosty the Snowman find his way through town before he melts away in this unplugged coding worksheet for kids! This free worksheet is great to print to use in a classroom or even at home!
We like to practice verbalizing our sequences as well because it helps to practice coding concepts in different ways in order to master them!
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