Easy Preschool Thanksgiving Turkey Motor Skills activity

This is a great motor skill activity for preschoolers, kidergarteners, and any toddlers. Make a simple dumb bell shaped turkey and let kids clip on colored clothespins for tail feathers. It could also become a counting activity. Visit the site below for the full details.

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Umbrella and Raindrop Number Match Preschool Activity

Here's a great math activity to do with toddlers or preschoolers. The theme is matching raindrops to a numbered umbrella. This is a great summer or spring math game. Follow the link below for an instructional video on this fun

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Halloween Candy Corn Counting Craft Activity

Use kids favorite Halloween candy corn and make a fun math activity with this free printable. Follow the link below for the full instructions and printable template.

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Halloween Spider Web Math Craft

Use rug grip mesh as a base to make a fun, counting math craft game for Halloween. Make spider webs like this with a number. Kids have to match the correct number of counters. Visit the cool site below for the full tutorial and directions.

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Paper Bag Easter Nest Craft

These cute Easter nests made from paper lunch bags are also a fun math activity. Match the same number of pom pom chicks to the appropriate number bag. Follow the link below for the full step by step tutorial with pictures.

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Easter Counting Game Math Craft

Here's a simple and fun Easter theme game craft that's also a math lesson. Make simple paper baskets and match the correct number of bunny counters. Follow the link below for the full, step by step tutorial with pictures.

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15 Fun Preschool Math Crafts for Kids

Here's a round-up of 15 fun crafts that are also useful math activities for preschool or even elementary school. Included here are ideas to reinforce math concepts sch as: numbers and counting, shapes, fractions, and matching combinations. Many of these crafts once made can be saved and brought out for practice play. These simple math craft activities help young children understand math concepts that will last a lifetime.

1. Chicks Ping Pong Ball Math Craft

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2. Shapes Train Paper Craft

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3. Craft Stick Magnet Shapes Craft

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4. Number Beads Math Craft

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5. Snowman with Hat and Scarf Craft

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6.  Pot of Gold Math Craft

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7. Paper Plate Clock Craft

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8. Pumpkin Pie Paper Plate Math Craft

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9. Sandpaper numbers craft

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10. Bead Necklace Counting Craft

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11. Paper Plate Counting Math Craft

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12. Number Beads Math Craft

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13. Easy Craft Stick Shapes Craft

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14. Big Number Math Paper Craft

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15. Colorful Pasta Counting Craft

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Mother's Day/ Valentine's Day Symmetry Hearts Craft

 

This craft is also a math and shapes lesson. Use symmetry to cut out half a heart on a fold and make a whole heart. Then, paint one side and close to make an identical symmetrical design on the other. Fun and easy to make. Follow the ink below for the full tutorial with pictures.

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Easter Chicks Ping Pong Ball Math Craft

This cute Easter chicks ping pong ball craft is also a math and counting activity. Visit the site below for details on this and other great craft ideas.

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St. Patrick's Day Pot of Gold Math Craft

This is a wonderfully simple idea for a St. Patrick's Day theme math lesson. Simply add a plus and equals sign to a pot of gold with pennies to make a simple and fun addition activity. You can use this with any level of addition based on your students' needs. Visit the Examiner for more details.

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Hickory Dickory Dock Clock Craft

This simple clock craft can be used to teach the nursery rhyme Hickory Dickory Dock, or simply as a time and clock reading activity, or both.

Materials:

• paper plate
• template of traceable numbers 1-12
• card stock
• crayons
• glue
• sharp pencil
• hole punch
• brass fasteners (butterfly clip)

Directions:

1. Beforehand teacher prepares a copy of traceable numbers 1-12 and cuts simple short and long clock hands for each student.
2. Students decorate their paper plate and clock hands as they like.
3. Trace or color the numbers 1-12 and glue on to make your clock (Sorry, 12 and 1 fell off this example).
4. Punch a hole in the clock hands and attach to the paper plate with a brass fastener.

Shapes Pattern Headband Craft

This is a math concepts craft lesson my daughter did. We were teaching about shapes and patterns. She made some recurring patterns with foam shapes, then glued them on a paper strip for a headband.

Materials:

• construction paper
• foam shapes
• glue
• scissors
• stapler

Directions:

1. Beforehand, cut 2 strips about 4 inches wide down the long side of a sheet of construction paper. Lay the strips end to end and staple together to make one long strip. Make one for each student.
2. Give students foam shapes and demonstrate making repeating patterns like: square, triangle, square, triangle...Have students try with the shapes. Later have them try to make a pattern with three shapes.
3. Let them glue their finished patterns on the paper strip.
4. Check the fit around their head and staple into a loop. Have them wear their new shape headbands.

Thanksgiviving Paper Plate Math Craft

Here's another great idea from one of the best blogs on the web, Almost Unschoolers. This Thanksgiving pumpkin pie paper plate craft is also a great math lesson. After decorating your paper plate to look like a pumpkin pie, cut it into pieces to teach the concept of fractions. Follow the link for the full tutorial and explanation on this great idea.

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Craft Stick Magnet Shapes Craft

This is a great idea from the Teach Preschool site. These craft stick magnet shapes ate very easy to make and useful for toddlers if you have a whiteboard handy.

Materials:

• colored Popsicle sticks or craft sticks
• small round magnets
• glue gun or other strong glue

Directions:

1.  Colored craft sticks are easy to buy at any craft store or color your own Popsicle sticks beforehand.
2. Glue the sticks together in simple geometric shapes like triangles, squares, and diamonds. A glue gun is faster or use regular glue.
3. Glue small round magnets to the back of your shapes. Allow to dry.

You can also glue magnets to the back of individual sticks. Use the sticks and shapes to do matching, color, and counting activities. You'll find these valuable materials to use again and again.

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Sand Numbers Craft

Here's a similar idea to making sandpaper numbers for a math craft.

Materials:

card stock
white glue
craft sand or beach sand
large tray

Directions:

Draw numbers in thick lines with white glue onto card stock.
Put into a tray and cover with sand. Pour of the excess. If you have colored sand you could use a different color for each number. Allow to dry.
If desired, cut numbers into flash cards or leave on the paper.  Kids trace the numbers with their fingers to teach stroke order.

Do the same thing with the letters of the alphabet.

Sandpaper numbers craft

Here's a simple and fun math craft idea.

Materials:

• sandpaper
• number templates
• pencil
• scissors
• card stock

Directions:

1. Trace backwards block numbers onto the back of a sheet of sandpaper.
2. Cut out the numbers and glue onto card stock cards.
3. Students trace the numbers with their fingers to teach about stroke order.

You could also use the reverse and make cards out of the negative. Kids trace their fingers through the holes in the sandpaper.

Do the same activity for the leters of the alphabet.

Bead Necklace Counting Craft

This is a bead necklace craft used for a math lesson. Students count a certain number of beads and make their necklace.

Materials:

• number cards
• large beads
• string or cord
• small paper with "I counted      "
• tape

Directions:

1. Cut string or cord for necklaces beforehand.
2. Review target numbers with cards, 1-20, for example.
3. Lat students choose one card from a pile and read the number.
4. They have to count the same number of beads to make their necklace.
5. After threading their necklace, students write the number on the strip of paper"I counted      "(the one pictured is 17) and tape to their necklace and wear it.

Paper Plate Counting Math Craft

Here's a very simple idea for a counting math craft activity using a paper plate and foam shapes.

Materials:

• small paper plate
• large tracing number on white paper
• foam shapes
• glue

Directions:

1. Give each child a paper plate and the target number to trace, or let them choose from a set numeber, 1-5 for example.
2. After tracing the number, glue onto the paper plate.
3. Let them choose the correct number of foam shapes and glue on to the paper plate.

Polar Bear Shapes Craft

This is a cute polar bear made from basic shapes you could make out of felt or paper. Great for a lesson on winter or shapes.

Materials:

• Sheet of blue construction paper
• white construction paper or felt
• 2 google eyes
• tiny pink triangle
• glue
• pink marker or thread

Directions:

1. Cut out pieces beforehand; 1 big circle or slight oval for the body, 1 medium circle for the head, 3 very small circles for the ears and tail, 2 squares for the legs.
2. Assemble and glue on pieces to blue paper.
3. Add google eyes and a triangle for the nose.
4. Draw a pink mouth or use thread.

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Shapes Cellophane Window Craft

This is another idea from my daughter's Japanese elementary textbook. You can make simple, colorful windows from cardboard and cellophane.

Materials:

• cardboard
• various colored cellophane
• pencil
• scissors
• tape

Directions:

1. Give each child a big piece of cardboard. They can draw big geometric shapes on the cardboard and cut out. The teacher may have to help with a box cutter.
2. Tape different colored pieces of cellophane over the holes.
3. Take the cardboard outside in the sun. Have students hold up the cardboard so the sun shines through onto the ground or a wall.

I thought if you could put together some big pieces of cardboard, you could make a house.