These math activities are perfect for hands-on learning because they make practicing basic skills fun! Add some of these activities to your lesson plans and watch your kids have a blast while learning how to count, pattern, graph and more! Plus adding a Halloween theme makes the fun connect with the season.
Pre-K Math Explorations for Halloween
If it’s October, your preschoolers are probably thinking of Halloween. So they will love these fun math activities with a Halloween vibe. You can use these in your morning tubs, focus on skills development in your math small groups, and add these to centers for independent exploration.
Halloween Play Dough Counting Mats
Develop fine motor and counting skills at the same time! Your little learners can develop number sense and begin to make the connection between quantity and the numeral (symbol) of that quantity. These printable play dough counting mats are available in the Halloween Bundle.
Halloween Number Identification Game Activity For Preschoolers
This game is available {in black and white or color} in the Halloween Bundle. Recognizing and identifying numerals is an important developing skill for Pre-K. The Halloween Number Identification game can be played using numbers 1-10 or numbers 1-20 depending on your student’s ability levels. The playing cards are available in black and white and color for your convenience. Also included are two printable recording sheets in black and white, one for each version of the game. Find a number card, say the numeral, and mark it on your recording sheet.
Halloween Races
Available in the Halloween Bundle, this activity will help build number sense and one to one correspondence. Students will roll a die and move their playing piece towards the haunted house.
Halloween Board Game
Your kids will love this printable fire engine board game that supports the development of number sense and one-to-one correspondence skills. Available in the Halloween Bundle, this game moves the game pieces along the candy trail to the haunted house. Rolling, counting, and fun!
Halloween Counting Book
This easy to assemble book helps reinforce number sense and counting. The Halloween Counting Book is available in the Halloween Bundle.
Halloween Graphing Activity For Preschoolers
Did you know that graphing activities help young children learn important math concepts like more and less? Your kids will enjoy rolling the pocket cube and recording their rolls on the recording sheets. This graphing activity is available in the Halloween Bundle.
Halloween Patterns
Patterning activities help your students develop logical thought and reasoning skills. Ask students to “read” the patterns for building vocabulary and literacy skills, too. The printable Halloween pattern activity can be found in the Halloween Bundle.
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Halloween Bundle
The Halloween Bundle includes 16 of our most popular preschool resources, including math and literacy small group activities, fine motor...
