Kindergarten math crafts
Math Activities for Kindergarten at Home
Teaching math to your Kindergarten child at home can be a lot of fun! Children in this age group are excited, eager learners who learn best through hands-on activities and exploration. This post will give you many ideas for teaching math to kindergarteners at home through fun, hands-on activities!
The hands-on math activities in this post include ideas for learning numbers, making 10, shapes, patterns and measurement—all of which are important foundational math skills for children between the ages of 3 – 6 years old to develop.
Just before we get started, you’ll want to grab your FREE Kindergarten Number Bundle! This amazing resource includes colour-by-number colouring pages, making 10 frames with fun activities, AND number formation rhymes.
Kindergarten math at home can be a lot of fun with these hands-on activities! Most of these ideas use basic craft supplies and learning manipulatives you may already have.
Number Activities for Kindergarten at Home
Play Dough Numbers – This fun playdough numbers with free numbers printable is a great way for kindergarteners to learn number recognition, counting and one-to-one correspondence. All you need is play dough and some little items for counting.
Learn Numbers with Tape – Kindergarteners can learn all about numbers, including counting, skip counting, number recognition, and one-to-one correspondence with these fun games! All you need is some colorful tape!
Stamp & Count DUPLO Math Game by Frugal Fun for Boys & Girls – Stamp and Count DUPLO math game is a hands-on counting activity is great for kindergarten and can be easy or challenging depending on the child. All you need are some playdough and DUPLO bricks.
Counting & Measuring with LEGO by The Imagination Tree – For this simple math activity, you will need to write numbers on some LEGO bricks.
Then use them to help your kindergartener develop number sense such as counting, number recognition, numeral order and one-to-one correspondence.
Post-It Number Line Math Activity by Busy Toddler – Post-It number line activity teaches kindergarteners number recognition and numeral order. All you need for this hands-on activity is a large sheet of paper, a marker and a pad of post-it sticky notes.
Making 10 Activities for Kindergarten at Home
Make Ten {an easy card game} by Mama.Papa.Bubba – This simple Make Ten math game uses a regular deck of cards and this free printable to teach kindergarteners how to add to ten.
Ten Frame Math Game with Magnetic Tiles by 123Homeschool4Me – Ten Frame Math Game is a hands-on math game that teaches kindergarteners how to use a ten frame. All you need are some magnetic tiles and a die to roll.
Free Addition Facts Game Adding to 10 by Life Over C’s – This free printable board game will help kindergarteners practice the addition facts and adding to ten.
All you need to do is print the game, cut the cards out, and play!
Making 10 Addition Activity by Busy Toddler – This making ten math addition activity is simple to set up using sticky notes. It’s a great game for kindergarteners who are kinesthetic learners to play.
Kindergarten Ten Frame by Days with Grey – This ten-frame game is perfect for kindergarteners learning to add to ten. All you need is some tape, sticky notes and a manipulative such as rainbow bears.
Shapes Activities for Kindergarten at Home
Shapes Scavenger Hunt by Life Over C’s – Shapes are all around! Use this free printable scavenger hunt to have fun looking for shapes in your home with your kindergartener. Also included is an I Spy printable shapes activity.
Shapes Play Dough Mats by 123Homeschool4Me – These printable shape playdough mats are a lot of fun for kindergarteners. They will love creating the different shapes with playdough.
Shape Sorting Sensory Invitation to Play by Stir the Wonder – This simple sensory bin encourages kindergarteners to dig for shapes and sort them into a muffin tin. It’s also a good activity for working on fine motor skills.
Building Shapes with Craft Sticks by Pre-K Pages – Kindergarteners can build different shapes using crafts sticks. Printable challenge cards will prompt kids to build different shapes and think about where they might see that shape in their environment.
Shape Hopscotch by Creative Family Fun – Playing shape hopscotch is a great way for kindergarteners to learn to recognize different shapes. It is played just like regular hopscotch. All you need is some pavement, sidewalk chalk and some rocks.
Patterning Activities for Kindergarten at Home
Pattern Activities for Kindergarten – With some clothespins, popsicle sticks and paint, you can make these simple patterning sticks to teach your kindergartener all about making patterns.
This is also a wonderful activity for Quiet Time.
Pattern Snakes by Busy Toddler – This fun activity is an easy way for kindergarteners to play with patterns. For this patterning activity, all you need is a large piece of paper, a marker, and colorful dot stickers.
Match and Build Patterns at Preschool Spot – This pattern building activity teaches kindergartners that patterns are just repeating segments. For this activity, you’ll only need some unifix cubes or something similar.
Scooping and Pouring Patterns Activity by Stay at Home Educator – This simple scoop and pour activity incorporates creating patterns and fine motor skills. All you need is different colored rice, scoops, and clear jars.
Fruit Themed Pattern Activity by Life Over C’s – This pattern printable teaches kindergarteners to use thinking skills to determine which fruit comes next in the pattern. All you need for this activity is the free printable and some fruit manipulatives.
Bead Patterning by Pre-K Pages – Bead patterning is a hands-on activity that uses pipe cleaners and beads. The printable pattern prompts will encourage your kindergartener to extend the pattern.
Measurement Activities for Kindergarten at Home
Magnetic Measurement Activity by Days with Grey – This simple measurement activity is great for kindergarteners. By using magnetic tiles, your child will measure a strip of tape and count the tiles to determine the length of the tape.
Weight STEM Challenge Cards by The STEM Laboratory – Teach your kindergartener about measuring weight with these printable challenge cards. All you need is a balance scale and some objects to weigh.
Measuring Hands and Feet with Unifix Cubes by Little Bins for Little Hands – For this simple measuring activity, kindergarteners will trace their hands and feet on a paper and then measure using snap cubes or something similar.
Frog Jump Gross Motor Measurement Activity by Coffee Cups and Crayons – Frog Jump measurement activity is great for kindergartners because it incorporates jumping and measuring. For this activity, you’ll need some tape and a measuring tape.
So there you have it, 25 hands-on math activities that are perfect for teaching your kindergartener at home! I hope you are inspired to have fun with math and your kindergartner by all these ideas!
Happy playing, my friend!
xo
Sarah
P.S. If you are ready to really dive into Kindergarten at Home – be sure to check out this “Everything you could ever need, just open and go! Kindergarten Resource” Perfect for little ones 3 – 6 years old.
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Free Winter Math Crafts for Kindergarten
If you teach Kindergarten, you’re probably strongly for or against crafts in the classroom.
There doesn’t seem to be much in between!
Personally, I am strongly FOR crafts, especially when they incorporate our core learning like these winter math crafts for Kindergarten. I think that crafts are so important to the kindergarten experience.
These free winter math crafts are the perfect way to combine fine motor practice, listening and following directions, are, and math after winter break!
Why are crafts important?
Crafts in the classroom are a great way to work on those important fine motor skills. Students improve scissor cutting skills and get to practice holding and turning the paper, accuracy with cutting on a line, and snipping. They build handwriting muscles through pinching the paper, tearing, gluing, and manipulating the small pieces.
Crafts in Kindergarten are a great way to improve listening and following directions. Especially after winter break, I think this is something we can always use work on!
They also give us a new way to practice core content.
The brain LOVES new things, and using skills and content learned in this new way helps build connections in the brain.
Free Winter Math Crafts for Kindergarten
When someone in our Natalie Lynn Kindergarten and 1st Grade Teacher Friends Facebook Group had the idea for these free winter math crafts, I knew I needed to make them happen!
These math crafts hit preschool, pre-K, and kindergarten math standards and are low prep craft ideas for you.
Mitten Addition Craft
This mitten addition craft is perfect for those of us beginning or reviewing addition this winter in Kindergarten!
This winter math craft is super low prep. Students will cut out the mittens and glue them on the page.
Then, they will add snowflakes. For the snowflakes, you can use any white materials you already have in the classroom! Some ideas include: white dot stickers, pom-poms, mini cotton balls, or just use a white crayon to draw.
There are two options for the addition number sentence at the bottom.
First, you can choose to have students simply fill out the addition number sentence to match.
Or, you can have students fill out the story problem to match.
If you use pom-poms or cotton balls as snowflakes, you can have students act out multiple story problems before finally choosing one to make and glue down.
Snowman Number Sense Craft
These snowman number sense math crafts are perfect because you can easily differentiate them.
Students will assemble their snowman craft, draw a face, and add a number hat. Warning: these snowmen are big!
Then, students will fill out the snowman to match the number on its hat. You can differentiate these snowman math crafts by what numbers you give to students.
If students make numbers 1-10, they will model the number and then show it on a ten frame.
To model, I just turned dot stickers into “buttons” and stuck them on. You can even just have students draw a picture to match the number!
For teen numbers 11-19, students will decompose the teen number and write how much they need to add to ten to make the teen number.
Then, they will show the number on ten frames. I used mini dot stickers to add a fine motor component and fill out these ten frames.
These snowman math crafts make the perfect hallway display for January. And maybe February.. and March if you’re like me. 😉
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