Looking for a festive way to mix math and creativity this November? These Thanksgiving Cornucopia Math Crafts and Centers turn counting, addition, and graphing practice into hands-on fun your students will love! They’ll stay engaged, build fine motor skills, and create adorable cornucopias you’ll be proud to display before the holiday break.
October is the perfect time to bring pumpkins into your math block! In this post, I’ll share easy, engaging pumpkin math crafts and centers that help students practice counting, comparing numbers, and even simple addition—all while building fine motor skills. These activities are flexible, differentiated, and a fun way to bring fall excitement into your classroom.
Looking for a fun way to bring math and apple crafts together this fall? These apple worm math crafts and centers are hands-on, easy to prep, and packed with skills. Students will love creating cereal worms to practice counting, patterns, and fine motor skills—and you’ll love how simple they are to set up for Apple Week or Johnny Appleseed Day.
Make Easter math fun with these engaging jelly bean math activities! Perfect for preschool, kindergarten, first grade, these hands-on Easter math craftivity activities help students practice counting, comparing numbers, addition, and graphing in a playful way. Students decorate Easter eggs with jelly beans and complete fun math activities!
Keep young learners engaged this spring with fun, hands-on rainbow math activities! From counting with colorful cereal to addition craftivities and interactive math games, these engaging ideas are perfect for kindergarten and first-grade classrooms. Explore creative ways to reinforce number sense, sorting, and addition while bringing vibrant spring energy to your math centers!
Building strong number sense takes lots of hands-on, meaningful practice—and winter is the perfect time to make it fun and engaging! In this post, I’m sharing my favorite easy-prep activities for teaching numbers to 20, including write-the-room, play dough mats, counting centers, and differentiated number writing pages. These seasonal ideas keep young learners moving, exploring, and building confidence with counting, comparing, and writing numbers…plus there’s a free winter math activity you can try with your students.
Engage your students with fun, hands-on fall activities that build number sense and meet key kindergarten standards. This post offers differentiated numbers-to-20 activities, from counting centers to play dough mats, perfect for small groups or individual practice. Plus, get a free printable “Write the Room” activity to help students practice counting, number writing, and comparing numbers in an exciting way!
Make November less hectic with these no-prep Thanksgiving-themed digital literacy and math centers! Perfect for kindergarten and first grade, these engaging Google Slides and Boom Cards focus on rhyming, letter sounds, alphabet matching, number sense, addition, and shapes. Simply assign to your students for independent or group center time—no printing or laminating required. With easy differentiation, audio support, and interactive elements, these centers make learning festive, fun, and manageable!
Bring the pumpkin patch to your classroom with fun, hands-on counting practice! Learn how to set up a differentiated pumpkin patch counting center, use hundred chart puzzles for extra math fun, and engage students with digital activities. Perfect for counting by 1’s, 5’s, and 10’s, this activity supports Common Core standards K.CC.A.1 and K.CC.A.2.
Apple season and Johnny Appleseed’s birthday (Sept. 26th) are the perfect time to bring engaging, differentiated learning into your classroom! These hands-on apple-themed math and literacy centers are easy to prep, fun for little learners, and designed to meet your students right where they are—no matter their level.
I don’t know about you, but I always like my learning activities to reflect either the current season or our theme. It helps the students
Young learners need to move—but that doesn’t mean losing instructional time! In this post, I’m sharing how I combine brain breaks with purposeful, standards-based learning activities to build focus, boost retention, and make lessons more fun.