Snowflake Themed Math Activities

January 1, 2024 by Sarah White Leave a Comment

Even if you don’t live somewhere that gets a lot of snow, adding snowflakes to your classroom themes can be a lot of fun. They’re a great way to learn about symmetry, patterns and just to use in math learning.

For example, you can practice math facts up to 10 with these free printables from Math Geek Mama. They include addition and subtraction facts and kids color in all the snowflakes with problems that have the same solution (for example every problem where the answer is 5).

Work on multiplication facts and break the code with this activity from Royal Baloo. The download comes with questions that are answered by decoding multiplication problems where the answers stand for different letters. You could use the same code to write your own secret messages, too.

HoJo’s Teaching Adventures has a snowflake puzzle activity that includes addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. You can get it when you give your email address. You know where to put the puzzle pieces because the math sentence on one piece matches the answer on the other.

Graph out the number of each different kind of snowflake with this snowflake I-spy graphing activity from Schooltime Snippets. Kids can mark each snowflake as they count them with a dot marker, or color them in with different colors of crayons.

Symmetry is an important aspect of snowflakes, and kids can play with shapes of different numbers of sides to make their own symmetrical snowflake patterns. This activity from A Little Pinch of Perfect has printable tanagram shapes kids can use to make a snowflake on a template, then count up the number of each shape they used.

Here’s another project using pattern block shapes to make snowflakes from Frugal Fun for Boys and Girls.

This one is maybe more art than math, but you can also have kids complete the snowflake with different geometric shapes with this activity from As Told By Mom.

Snowflake Suduko Game

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Celebrating Mexican Independence Day

Lots of Americans seem to think that May 5 is Mexican Independence Day, but that holiday actually falls on Sept. 16.

May 5 is the celebration of the Battle of Puebla, in which the Mexicans defeated the French in 1862. Independence Day marks the beginning of their fight for independence from Spain in 1810. That was the day of what’s known as El Grito de Dolores, or the cry of Dolores, for when the Catholic priest Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla rang the church bells at his church in Dolores and declared that Mexico should be free from Spanish rule.

They would fight for their freedom until 1821 when they finally gained independence.

Fabulous Classroom has a little of the history and ideas for celebrating the holiday for all age groups. There’s also a link to a good video in that post about the real story of Mexican Independence Day.

Twinkl also has a good tops about the history and different activities, discussion ideas, crafts and foods that can be incorporated into lessons at school or used at home.

I also found a few pins that no longer link to a website but include good information on Mexican Independence Day, including some questions for students to answer based on the reading. You can find more printables and questions for kids from TX Homeschool Mama on Etsy (also available in Spanish).

You can find a lot more paid resources about Mexican Independence Day at Teachers Pay Teachers.

Mexican flag crafts are a fun option for celebrating Mexican Independence Day (though the current iteration of their flag has only been in use since 1968). Kids Activities Blog has a free Mexican flag printable and a few different ideas for decorating it including dot markers and torn tissue paper.

You can also find some great Mexican crafts at Red Ted Art. The post includes all sorts of Mexican inspired projects including Day of the Dead crafts, Frida Kahlo pinatas and upcycled musical instruments. I love the giant paper flowers they shared from Honestly WTF.

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