Fall Math Activities

September 27, by Sarah White. Leave a Comment

Adding a seasonal spin to classroom learning makes it a little more fun for everyone, so here are some fall math activities to get younger kids engaged in learning the basics.

Make fun fall shapes like an apple, a scarecrow and an acorn using snap cubes, then count the number of each color used in the design. Get the pattern cards from 123 Homeschool 4 Me and kids will get practice following instructions, sorting colors and counting.

Or use cubes to practice one-to-one correspondence with a pumpkin twist with this pumpkin stacking towers activity from Fun Learning for Kids. Here kids match the number of cubes in each stack to the number on the pumpkin. There are printable options with numerals and dots that kids can use to practice addition while they build their towers.

These apple counting printables from Teaching 2 and 3 Year Olds are another way to practice one-to-one correspondence while learning to count to 10. Kids can use red pompoms or buttons to cover up each apple on the tree as they count them.

The Keeper of the Memories has a printable pumpkin seed counting clip card activity where kids can count the number of seeds in the pumpkin and clip a clothespin to the correct answer (numbers 0 to 10 are included).

Need some independent math games for first and second graders to do when they complete their work early? Check out this free download from Missing Tooth Grins on Teachers Pay Teachers.

Work on skip counting by twos with these cute apple puzzle printables from Royal Baloo. Just print, cut (and laminate if you want) and kids can reassemble them with the numbers as a guide.

Kindergarten Worksheets and Games has a great collection of fall themed math worksheets, including writing the words for numbers, telling time, greater than and less than, counting by ones, twos and fives, addition and subtraction and more. And they’re all free.

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Halloween Alphabet Activities

I have often said that if you can add a holiday twist to a learning activity, it makes it just that much more fun to learn. And when it comes to Halloween learning activities, there are so many easy options for making things a little more fun while learning the same material.

Take letter recognition, for example. Here are just a few options for Halloween alphabet activities your little ones are sure to love.

I started wanting to write about this because of the haunted house letter activity in this post from The Primary Parade (it’s under ghost activities, and if you click on the link it will take you to a signup form where you can get the download for free). This one involves an invisible ink pen, but once you have one I’m sure you’ll come up with lots of ways to use it.

Fantastic Fun and Learning has a cute pumpkin alphabet printable to be used for matching letters written on pumpkin seeds, which adds a fun sensory aspect (but also a little more prep). You could also use letter beads or even just pieces of paper with letters written on them.

Two Pink Peonies has a similar letter matching project using a pumpkin and dot stickers with the letters written on them. Again it’s a little bit of prep but kids do love stickers!

The spider find and cover activity from Fun Learning for Kids is a little like bingo. It includes cards with pictures of different objects and kids cover up the letter that begins the word. Or you could just write a letter on the board and have them find it. Use little erasers or pom poms to cover the letters.

If you want to get kids up and moving while they learn, try this witch themed alphabet hide and seek game from The Educator’s Spin on It. It’s meant to go with the book Room on the Broom but you can play it by itself, too. Just grab a cauldron and some letters (could be letter stickers, magnets, alphabet blocks, etc.) and hide them so kids can find them.

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