Candy Corn Learning Activities

October 2, 2023 by Sarah White Leave a Comment

Love it or hate it, candy corn is a graphic shape and fun colors that’s a great theme for learning activities around Halloween. Whether you use actual candy in your activities or just candy shaped or colored objects, there are lots of things you can do.

Preschoolers can make this easy torn paper candy corn craft from Thriving Home Blog, and a bunch of them would make a great bunting style classroom decoration.

Practice counting from 1 to 20 with the free candy corn counting cards printable from Primary Playground. You can use actual candy corn to count out the numbers, or try pop poms or buttons in orange and yellow if you don’t want to play with food in the classroom.

Get more candy corn math printables from Math Geek Mama. Her set includes counting to 100 with candy corn, candy corn counting mats and three-part puzzles with the number, the word and dots to count.

This Reading Mama has a great post from Tot Schooling all about using candy corn as manipulatives for fall activities. It includes free printables where you can use candy corn to trace the upper case letters of the alphabet, count to 10 using one-to-one correspondence, and build fine-motor skills by using candy corn to decorate a tree and a jack o’lantern.

Little Zizzers has more candy corn printables, including making patterns, math and bingo (perfect for a classroom Halloween party!).

Get young kids introduced to coding without a computer with this simple and fun candy corn coding activity from Forward with Fun. Print out the maze and use candy corn as your direction arrows to navigate the maze without running into any of the obstacles. Even with the relatively easy project kids are already learning the basics of coding such as directional inputs (and that diagonal is not an option) and avoiding redundant code.

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Learning about Snow

Not all of us live where there is a lot of snow in the winter (or even where it is winter as I write this, but it can still be fun to learn about snow, what it is and why it falls, so let’s get into it!

First, let’s talk snowflake science with The Homeschool Scientist. They have a free prinatble snowflake science less that’s more than 60 pages long and good for multiple grade levels. The blog post linked here includes some fun snow facts, information about how snowflakes form and why they are both six-sided and (probably) all different.

Expressive Monkey has a great post about how snowflakes are formed and why they have six arms, and also shows some of the pictures taken by W. A. Bentley in the 1920s (more on him below).

You can also grab a free snow facts worksheet with space for kids to draw their own unique snowflakes from Education.com. Simple Living Creative Learning also has a paid snow study resource set that includes things like different types of snowflakes, the snow cycle, symmetry drawing with snowflakes, tips for snow safety, snow-related vocabulary and more.

Homeschool Superfreak has another great page for learning about snowflakes, which includes information about Snowflake Bentley, a great book to read (and person to learn about). It includes lesson plan ideas and links to activities.

Speaking of activities, if you happen to have snow around you can make snow ice cream or maple candy, paint on snow or with snow, or do some snow science experiments. If you get a ton of snow you could maybe even build an igloo or snow structure.

If you don’t get snow you can learn about how animals keep warm in the snow and cold temperatures with this experiment from I Can Teach My Child. Frugal Fun for Boys and Girls can help you learn why big paws (or snowshoes) make it easier to walk in the snow. Or make a snowstorm in a jar like this one from MomBrite.

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