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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Comments (11)
My 3 and 4 year old used these today with squiggly eyes and they loved it! Thank you for this resource.
Thank you so much for all your great ideas. Appreciate all you do…Tam
Perfect – exactly what I was looking for!
This is a great resource! Thank you so much! x
I love monster mats, they are possible scary things that we can make so much fun.
thank you so much for your creativity
Thank you for a great idea for my little preschooler.
I would love to edit these to make teen numbers as well!
Thank you! My kids are going to LOVE these! Fun way to work on numbers!
thank you for you.
l will use it with kids.