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

I did a post earlier this year with activities and ideas for teaching the alphabet, but a lot or learning letters and recognizing them just has to do with seeing them and working with them a lot.

That means coloring, tracing, identifying things that start with different letters and more.

One way to reinforce the letters is through little activity books like these cute printable alphabet books from Life Over Cs.

These are available for free when you subscribe to her newsletter, and I’d say that’s well worth it if you have a little one (or a group of little ones!) working on the alphabet and letter recognition.

Each mini book includes a collection of things that start with that letter to color, color and read with words that start with the letter, tracing the letter, finding the letter in a grid and other coloring pages with objects that start with that letter.

These little books are super useful reinforcing the different letters and giving kids different activities related to the letters.

If you do a letter of the day or letter of the week you can use a new book for each one, and then keep the copies in your reading center or in a basket where kids can look at them again.

And of course you can add in all the other letter activities you like, go on a scavenger hunt for items that start with that letter, read alphabet books, practice writing letters in rice or with pompoms or playdough or whatever sensory activities you like.

You can grab the free printables when you enter you email address at Life Over Cs, and check out her other great alphabet resources and activities while you are over there.

Do you have favorite activities for teaching letters to kids? I’d love to hear about them!

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