Fall Math Activities for Kids

There are so many fun themes you can bring to the classroom in the fall, from apples and leaves to pumpkins, acorns, candy corn, witch hats…

Let’s stick to the earlier parts of fall for this roundup of fun fall themed math activities for kids.

123 Homeschool 4 Me has printable playdough mats that allow kids to count, trace the numbers 1-10, spell out the words and build the numbers with dough. Add buttons or other small objects as leaves for the trees they can count as they go.

Understanding patterns is a great basic for understanding math, and these repeating pattern printable cards from Taming Little Monsters are super cute as well as educational. There are six pages with four different patterns on each page and you can use them at home or in a math center at school. Or try the dot dabbing repeating pattern apple page from Tot Schooling, which uses different colors of apples in a row so kids can complete the pattern with dot markers.

Practice one-to-one correspondence with the leaf number tower activity from Fun Learning for Kids. This one uses domino style shapes with dots and kids build towers with cubes to the same height as the numbers on the leaf. That makes it a good fine motor skill activity, too.

Match the numbers on leaves to the numbers on the trees with this leaf number sorting activity from A Dab of Glue Will Do. This is a great one for the math center, and you could also use pom poms or other manipulatives to add “leaves” to the trees if you want.

That’s a similar idea to these printable tree math mats (which could be used other times of year, too) from The Kindergarten Connection. Write a simple math problem at the bottom (or roll a die to get the numbers) that kids can solve by adding or subtracting leaves. You could also use acorns, pom poms, buttons or any other little small thing you have handy.

Play a math game with apples from Playdough to Plato and kids can practice graphing and counting to see which apple comes out on top.

Older kids can practice multiplication with these color by math facts pages from Math with Raven. These are perfect for third and fourth graders learning their multiplication tables, as they will color all the problems with the same solution the same color to reveal the fall leaves.

Christmas Themed Math Activities

Snowflake Themed Math Activities

Thanksgiving Math Activities

Dr. Seuss Math Activities

Shamrock Math Games and Activities

Easy Valentine’s Day Math Activities

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Candy Corn Math Activities

Shark Week generally happens in July, but any time is a good time to learn more about sharks.

First, start with some fun whale facts like these from Kids Craft Room. Here I learned about the dwarf lantern shark, which is the smallest shark and only grows to about 6-8 inches (about 15-20 cm) long. It also emits light. How cool is that?

Natural Beach Living has some great printable shark information guides, where kids can learn about different kinds of sharks, match the facts to the pictures, or print out doubles and do a shark memory game.

Living Life an Learning has some great shark activity pages including the parts of a shark, types of sharks, a crossword puzzle and more. Also check out their parts of a shark and word scramble download, and a life cycle worksheet.

Learn about how sharks float with this great activity from JDaniel4’s Mom.

Need more facts about sharks? This fact pact from The WOLFe PACK on Teacher Pay Teachers includes fact sheets, a printable flip book, informational text, vocabulary, comprehension questions and more.

Living Montessori Now has a great collection of shark themed activities with a Montessori inspired twist. You’ll find a shark roll and cover, shark phonics and lots more shark activities Deb has collected from all over the Internet.

Remember the “Sharknado” movie? A Few Shortcuts turned the combination of sharks and tornadoes into a fun science activity. You’ll need a bottle connector for this project but otherwise should have everything you need on hand. Use their template to make your sharks out of aluminum foil. So fun!

You can also do some shark themed coloring with these coloring pages from Encouraging Moms at Home. Or make a cool 3D shark with this template from korkotak. And there are tons of different shark crafts collected in this post from Kids Activities Blog.

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