Fall Math Activities For the Classroom

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.

Did you know that October is Squirrel Awareness Month? I didn’t know we needed more awareness of these little creatures, but let’s take it as a sign to learn more about squirrels!

Let’s start with some fun facts via Kids Konnect: did you know there are five subfamilies and more that 280 species of squirrels? The smallest are pygmy squirrels and the largest, the Bhutan giant flying squirrel, can be longer that 4 feet (1.2 meters).

Tree squirrels can climb down trees so fast because their ankles can rotate 180 degrees, allowing them to grab the tree bark as they go down. While most squirrels don’t survive their first year of life, they can live five to 10 years in the wild and squirrels have been known to live up to 20 years in captivity!

Rhythms of Play has more fun facts and tips for observing squirrels if you want to add some real life nature to your nature study.

We always like to start these collections with life cycle and parts of the animal printables, so let’s grab the squirrel life cycle an parts of a squirrel worksheets from Montessori Nature. (It doesn’t look like these are free any more but they have a whole unit study on squirrels you can buy that includes life cycle and parts activities, characteristics of different kinds of squirrels, a printable poster, information about predators and more.)

Grab the squirrel lapbook printable (free with email address) from Homeschool Share to learn the parts of a squirrel, where they live, what they eat, whether they hibernate and more. There’s also a nut taste test printable, a place for making observations about squirrels, life cycle of an oak tree, games and more.

Simple Everyday Mom has some cute squirrel themed worksheets including tracing the letter s, labeling the parts of a squirrel and a letter s maze. She also has more activity pages with a squirrel theme, including matching, a more traditional maze and a counting and graphing activity.

Work on letter recognition with this squirrel and acorn game printable from Teaching Mama. I love the idea of hiding the letters in a fall themed sensory bin for kids to find, identify and match to the letter on the worksheet.

For older kids you can do this “if I were a squirrel” writing prompt from Lesson Planet.

And throw in a little counting with these squirrel and acorn tens frame printables from JDaniel4’s Mom, which you can use to count real acorns or any other little fall themed thing you have handy.

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