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Lucky Charms Math Printables

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That’s the idea behind our new Lucky Math Activity Pack, which is perfect for some St. Patrick’s Day fun! This set is filled with a variety of math activity pages, games, and worksheets that can be used alongside a colorful box of Lucky Charms (TM)! How fun is that? Here is a look inside:

First of all, did you know that the different marshmallow shapes included in a box of Lucky Charms (TM) are constantly changing! Over the years that have been many different shapes included in this sweet cereal. So, we’ve designed this pack to include 11 different shapes that you might find in your box of cereal…including the NEW Magical Unicorn marshmallow shape! And in case you are wondering, we purchased a BULK bag of Lucky Charms (TM) cereal from Walmart and it included 8 different shapes, all of which are included on the various activities below.

Hands-On Learning with Lucky Charms (TM)

Students who are working on a variety of math skills will enjoy this lucky activity pack. Math skills covered include:

Counting
Sorting
Adding
Framing
Graphing
Number Words
Patterns

Lucky Charm 10 Frames

Students spin and frame delicious mini-marshmallows until they have filled a ten frame board with colorful charms! Pair this gameboard with a spinner, and if desired a dice to add a little more difficulty. Roll the die, then spin the spinner to see how many of each shape to add to the 10 frame. How many spins will it take to fill the frame?

Sorting & Classifying with Lucky Charms (TM)

This Lucky Charm (TM) sorting mat is perfect for the younger crowd! The mat includes 11 different pictures for students to sort the tasty marshmallows by design. This is a simple way to include your younger students while building key sorting and classifying skills.

Seek & Find Fine Motor Math Activity Mat

Another great activity for younger students is our seek and find shape mat! This mat is filled with a TON of marshmallow fun! Your students can count how many of each design they can find. Alternatively, you can use the mat as a match and cover set where students can place the correct marshmallows on the board. This will build some key fine motor skills with your preschoolers.

Counting & Writing Numbers

This simple worksheet will have your students counting the marshmallows in each cereal bowl, then writing the number in the lines provided. This sheet can be laminated for reuse or printed out for each kiddo. This activity would make a great follow up to the learning center mats above.

Tally Marks & Addition with Lucky Charms (TM)

Students use their SCOOP of Lucky Charms (TM) to report and tally the number of marshmallows they found. Then, students use those numbers to solve simple addition problems represented by symbols. This is a handy activity for teaching children that we can represent numbers in various ways (tally marks, symbols).

Teaching Patterns & Sequencing with Lucky Charms (TM)

Another fun activity for young students is learning to recognize and repeat patterns. We’ve included a variety of pattern sequences in this set, including ABAB, AABB, AAABBB, ABCABC, and ABCD. Each pattern activity card will challenge your student to identify and continue the marshmallow sequence.

Older students will have fun solving these pattern worksheets by placing the correct marshmallow shape to complete the sequence. Students could even color or draw in the shapes as well. This entire math activity pack is very versatile to your teaching needs.

Number Words & Ten Frame Minibook

For your older preschool students, you’ll LOVE this printable minibook. Students will work on coloring, handwriting, number words, and ten frames. You might even break this set up and have students GLUE on their marshmallows to add a 3-D element to their mini-book. Number words are included as a word bank on the first page so your students can work independently.

Graphing with Lucky Charms

Graphing with Lucky Charms (TM) is a classroom favorite for teachers during St. Patrick’s Day! We’ve included two different printable graphs you can use, one in color and one in black and white. Each can be used with any box of Lucky Charms (TM) so that your students can practice sorting and graphing with visual representations.

If you are using this project in a standard classroom setting, you might want to have your kiddos GLUE the charms to the graph and display the results on a classroom bulletin board. Then, take turns sharing and reporting the results. Do students notice any common patterns for each of the shapes found?

Our Lucky Math Activity Pack is filled with a huge variety of hands-on fun for students of multiple ages and abilities. This is a great set to build St. Patrick’s Day math learning centers, and holiday fun. Your students will have a blast with this adorable set, they won’t even know they are learning!

With 18 pages of learning, this set is super low-prep, and available in an instant download. You can find this pack, and more in our Teachers Pay Teachers store! Click here

Christmas Playdough Mats

Free Christmas Playdough Mats

There is just something so fun about homeschooling during the holiday season! With all the fun Christmas activities, games, and crafts, the classroom is always filled with delicious smells and festive projects. One of my favorite activities is to work in some hands-on learning with Christmas playdough mats. Today, I’ve got a free set of Christmas Cookie Play Dough Mats that you can use with scented playdough (gingerbread playdough recipe here), mini-erasers, candy canes, or even cookies.

Gingerbread Man Play Dough Mat

The first way you can use these free Christmas Playdough Mats is with Gingerbread Play Dough and a Gingerbread Man cookie cutter. This set of cookie cutters provides you with multiple sizes for even more learning fun! Your students will LOVE to roll and cut out their own gingerbread cookies. Best of all, the play dough will smell just like gingerbread for some added sensory fun!

Christmas Cookie Play Dough Mats

Another way to use these playdough mats is with Christmas themed erasers! This set includes sturdy and adorable erasers featuring a snowman, present, penguin, Christmas tree, stocking, Santa, snowflake, and of course a Gingerbread Man. This set comes with 100 erasers so we’ll be using them over and over with our Christmas Activities. They are also great for counting, addition, subtraction, and learning about patterns.

Christmas Cookie

If you’d rather not deal with the playdough mess, or don’t have erasers at hand, you can still use this cookie mat by cutting out your own little gingerbread men from brown construction paper. I just cut these by hand, and they ended up a little too large for the tray. So, I made a set of printable Gingerbread Men Templates for your kiddos to decorate and cut-out. You can use these as a template and cut them from construction paper, or have children decorate and color them in. See below for printing instructions.

Gingerbread Cookie Playdough Mats

Print these mats on cardstock and place inside a page protector for reuse.

Gingerbread Man Template

This sheet will print 12 gingerbread men for your children to decorate. Suggested embellishments are provided as well as fun decorating examples. Use these with the cookie tray for counting activities.

Christmas Tree Math Mat: Addition Learning Games

Free Christmas Math Printables

Once your preschool student has a good handle on their numbers, you might try working on simple addition facts. Addition is easily taught using objects or manipulatives to visually represent numbers. We’ve created a set of fun addition cards your student can use to visually represent the solution to a variety of addition problems to 15. Christmas break is coming up and this Christmas math pack is the perfect way to add some hands-on learning over the holiday.

While this set includes a HUGE varitey of adition cards with solutions up to 15. However, if this is your preschool students first introduction to addition, you might start by presenting the simplest equations first. Then, once your student has the concept down, you can add in more difficult addition cards.

Christmas Math Activity Mat

The Christmas Tree Addition worksheet can be used with various objects, such as play dough, pom-poms, and even peppermint candies. This pack includes one Christmas Tree mat, and a total of 96 math cards. There are four math equations per sheet, however, you can print multiple pages per sheet if you’d like smaller addition cards. We recommend printing on cardstock or laminating for durability.

Christmas Math Worksheet

You can introduce the concept of addition by first showing your child how to add the right amount of ornaments to the tree. So if you had an addition card that read 6 + 1, then you would first instruct the child to place 6 ornaments on the tree. Next, you instruct the child to add 1 more to the tree. Finally, have your student count up all the ornaments that have been placed on the tree and orally solve the equation, “6+1=7.” You might even have your student write the equations on a separate sheet of paper.

Christmas Ornament Addition Activity

Print these playdough activity mats and addition cards on cardstock for durability.

Gingerbread Play Dough Recipe

If you are looking for a fun play dough recipe to pair with these Christmas Addition mats, try our free Gingerbread Play Dough recipe. This scented dough is super soft and will add some sensory fun to your learning.

Christmas Tree Activity Mats

Activity mats are a fantastic way for students to work on a variety of preschool math skills. Not only are they colorful and engaging, but they provide you with multiple opportunities to teach important skills your students will take with them during their kindergarten year. These free math printables will soon become a winter favorite in your preschool classroom.

Christmas Tree Math Mats

If your students are learning basic counting skills, then these mats are great for number recognition. During the preschool year, it’s important for students to look at the written form of the number and recognized that the number stands for a specific amount. That is where these activity math mats shine! Students will identify the number then place the corresponding amount of lights on the Christmas tree. If you have access to a set of colorful mini-lights this would make for a highly engaging activity that your students will beg you to do!

Play Dough Activity Mats

Don’t worry if you don’t have mini-Christmas bulbs, as these activity mats work just as well with playdough Christmas lights too! In fact, your students will be building small motor control with precision as they form the small colorful ornaments. Alternatively, you could use mini-candy canes, mints, or even cinnamon-scented red-hots. You might consider presenting students with a few choices of ornaments for completing the activity mats.

Free Printable Math Activity Mats

Counting Lights Playdough Mats

Print these free play dough activitiy mats for numbers 1-20. Print on cardstock and laminate for durability.

Fall Pumpkin Math Mats

Counting is a skill that all preschoolers need to work on. Not just counting on fingers, but recognizing one-to-one correspondence, that the number they are counting is represented with an object. With this free pumpkin candy counting game, your child can have fun while learning basic counting and addition skills.

Free Pumpkin Printables

With our free pumpkin printables these set works well with any fall or harvest theme. If you’re doing an “On the Farm” theme, this would work very well with that as well. There are many different ways you can use this free printable math mat, so you’re sure to keep students engaged with each method.

How to play Pumpkin Math Mat

Print and laminate the math mat. Depending on your student’s ability, give him or her one die or two dice. Tell your student to roll the dice. Students should then add the corresponding number of pumpkins to the tractor. Clear the board and play again!

Halloween Candy Printable

This free quick printable is great to pull out when you need to give your preschooler something to keep busy with. If you don’t have candy pumpkins you can also use candy corn as a substitute. The Pumpkin Truck Counting printable can be used as a busy bag, you can just put the candy and the dice in a bag with the truck sheet. Then pull it out for your child whenever!

Whether you use the printable pumpkins, buttons, candy corn, or candy pumpkins, this is a simple way to add some hands-on learning activities to your classroom without the prep-work!

Pumpkin Math Mat

Print and laminate or store in a page protector for reuse.

Number Sense Worksheets & Games

Free Number Sense Math Mats

Learning about numbers seems simple enough, doesn’t it? You simply teach children number recognition, and understanding of number value and you’re done, right? Well, maybe not…there are many different ways children can learn about numbers, with different ways to present them. We’ve got a fun hands-on learning activity that is sure to engage your early mathematicians!

What is Number Sense?

Number sense is basically the understanding of numbers and how they relate to each other. For preschoolers, learning about number sense means building the necessary skills to understand that numbers can be represented by many different ways. For example, we can represent numbers with dots (like on a dice), tall marks, numerals, number words, ten frames, and even blocks.

Number Sense Games

We have a great variety of Number Preschool Printables available to introduce your student to numbers. However, if your student already has a good understanding of the basics, then learning about different ways to represent numbers is a great expansion. And the best way to learn a new math concept is with a math game!

Monster Number Mats

Introduce this free number sense game to your students as a set of Hungry Number Monsters. Each monster wants to eat the correct number, so your job is to sort the numbers to each monster mat. All of the numbers are represented in different ways! You might have to count out the dots, or the tally marks to identify which number is represented.

Number Sense for Preschoolers

You might start your younger students off with only a couple of the number mats, or a reduced amount of the number cards. You can build and add more in as your student shows mastery. That way you avoid unnecessary frustration by unintentionally overwhelming your student. It is better to go slow and build confidence and a love of learning.

Free Number Sense Printables

Because these monster number mats are FULL-COLOR you’ll want to be sure to print on cardstock and laminate for durability. Additionally, you could use a page protector to keep the mat clean. That way, you can use these again with playdough, or even Halloween candy. (Hint: We have a fun Candy Corn Monster Game Here) Additionally, you can store all of the sorting cards in small task card boxes (as shown above) or in a small plastic bag, with the game mats in a file folder.

Monster Mat Number 1

This silly blue monster is ready to eat all of the number 1 cards! Print on cardstock or laminate for durability.

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Monster Mat Number 2

This hungry purple monster wants to eat all the number 2 cards! Print on cardstock or laminate for durability.

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Monster Mat Number 3

This tiny red furry monster is crazy for number 3 cards! Print on cardstock or laminate for durability.

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Monster Mat Number 4

The one-eyed pink monster likes to eat number 4 cards. Print on cardstock or laminate for durability.

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Monster Mat Number 5

Number 5 is the right card for this purple fuzz ball! Print on cardstock or laminate for durability.

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Monster Mat Number 6

6 is a hit with this blue cyclops. Print on cardstock or laminate for durability.

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Monster Mat Number 7

This yellow monster is ready to suck up number 7 cards! Print on cardstock or laminate for durability.

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Monster Mat Number 8

With three eyes this monster likes to eat 8 number cards. Print on cardstock or laminate for durability.

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Monster Mat Number 9

A monster with glasses? Why not?! This blob likes to eat number 9 cards. Print on cardstock or laminate for durability.

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Monster Mat Number 10

Hooray for this number 10 eating monster! Print on cardstock or laminate for durability.

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Monster Mat Number Sense Cards Set 1

This sheet includes number words, numerals, and tally marks to go with the monster math mats.

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Monster Mat Number Sense Cards Set 2

This set includes blocks and dice patterns to go with the monster math mats.

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Monster Mat Number Sense Cards Set 3

This final set includes ten frames for numbers 1-10. Add these to your number sense game for an additional challenge.

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Monster Counting Mats

These adorably silly monsters have LOST their eyes! Students can help them find their eyes and get them put back in just the right places! Learning to count can be great fun and it’s an important math skills for your preschool student to master! These free Monster Counting Mats bring fun and learning together for a highly engaging math activity.

Free Monster Playdough Mats

You can use a variety of manipulatives for these monster math mats; buttons, play dough, or even marbles….but WIGGLE EYES make the silliest pictures! Especially if you have a selection of different sizes of googly eyes. There is just something so funny and cute about a monster with different sized eyes all over the place!

Monster Math Mats

Your students will get a kick out this fun activity set, and they’ll be learning as they play! Students work on number recognition, and reading early number words as each mat includes simple to follow instructions. We recommend laminating the mats so they can be used over and over again in the years to come!

Monster Addition Math Mats

We’ve also created a universal math mat for any amount of eyes that you can use for extended learning. For example, provide children with a die to roll and count out the eyes. Or use two die and have them add the numbers first before placing the eyes on the mat. If you have LOTS of wiggle eyes ask students to see how many eyes they can even FIT on the silly monster! Can he really have 50 eyes?

Instant Math Centers

These mats can be used to inspire fun learning and make instant math centers for your classroom. These print two to a sheet and should be laminated for durability. Additionally, you can print multilple pages per sheet if you want to turn these into flashcard sized mats. This might be helpful if the google eyes you have are small, or if you want to store them in a task card container.

Universal Monster Counting Mat

This free printable monster counting mat can be used to play all sorts of counting games. Use dice to roll and add, then place that many eyes on your monster! Or expanding counting skills by challenging children to get as many eyes as they can on this monster!

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Monster Counting Mats 1 & 2

Two free monster counting math mats for preschool. Students work on number recognition and early reading skills to follow instructions for how many eyes to place on the monster.

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Monster Counting Mats 3 & 4

Two free monster counting math mats for preschool. Students work on number recognition and early reading skills to follow instructions for how many eyes to place on the monster.

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Monster Counting Mats 5 & 6

Two free monster counting math mats for preschool. Students work on number recognition and early reading skills to follow instructions for how many eyes to place on the monster.

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Monster Counting Mats 7 & 8

Two free monster counting math mats for preschool. Students work on number recognition and early reading skills to follow instructions for how many eyes to place on the monster.

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Monster Counting Mats 9 &10

Two free monster counting math mats for preschool. Students work on number recognition and early reading skills to follow instructions for how many eyes to place on the monster.

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Preschool Number Worksheets

Preschool students can learn all about the numbers 1-20 with this FREE set of preschool numbers worksheets. These fun counting worksheets have a multitude of key Preschool Math skills for your students including number formation, counting, tracing, number words, and more!

For each of the number worksheets 1-20, a different Summer theme is presented for students to count. With 20 different pages, this makes a great preschool math review book for the Summer. Simply print a set for each of your students and place them in a small take home folder.

Alternatively, you can place the worksheets into page protectors and provide students with dry erase markers to complete the activities. This is a great way to say money as the sheets are completely reusable for multiple students over the course of the summer.

Students can count and color the summer items, then practice number stroke order, number words, and then find and color numbers. This is a simple set that will be a hit with your students this Summer.

Counting Worksheet: Number 1

This worksheet is for the number 1 featuring a fun summer pineapple. Students practice number formation, counting, number words, seek and find.

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Counting Worksheet: Number 2

This worksheet is for number two features lemondae drinks. Students practice number formation, counting, number words, seek and find.

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Counting Worksheet: Number 3

This worksheet features three sail boats. Students practice number formation, counting, number words, seek and find.

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Counting Worksheet: Number 4

This number 4 worksheet features surfboards. Students practice number formation, counting, number words, seek and find.

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Counting Worksheet: Number 5

This number 5 worksheet features five watermelons, Students practice number formation, counting, number words, seek and find.

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Counting Worksheet: Number 6

Six Swim trunks for this number six worksheet. Students practice number formation, counting, number words, seek and find.

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