Snowflake Counting Activity: Free Download!
I love using low prep centers throughout the year to keep the learning fun and exciting. We use this snowflake counting activity in the winter and it’s always a favorite! It’s the perfect way to continue practicing counting and one-to-one correspondence and strengthen fine motor skills with your kindergartners. If you’re looking for a hands-on activity to use in your winter centers, this Snowflake Counting Freebie is perfect for your classroom.
Free Snowflake Counting Activity
Your students will love practicing counting to ten and one-to-one correspondence with this snowflake counting center! They can use cotton balls, pompoms, playdough, or mini snowflake erasers to help them count. You can also throw the snowflake numbers in a math sensory bin for endless fun!
My kids love this activity during the winter months, even though it doesn’t snow where we live. 😉 It’s a great holiday activity or a nice way to start the New Year off with hands-on fun!
How To Use the Snowflake Activity for Kindergarten
If you’re looking for an easy way to bring some winter fun to your classroom during the months of December or January, this snowflake math activity is a great option!
Step One: Print and Prep
It takes very little prep time to use this snowflake counting freebie. Just print out the snowflake mats and number cards in either color or black and white. You can also laminate the cards so you can reuse them over and over again.
Once you have the cards prepped and ready to go, you can then choose the counters that students can use to practice counting. You can have them use pom-poms, cotton balls, play dough, mini erasers, counters, buttons…anything you have on hand! For an additional fine motor challenge, you can also give students tweezers to transfer the items to each card.
Step Three: Practice Counting
Your students will pick a number card and then add “snowflakes” to the mat to match the number. They can use their fingers or tweezers to place the correct number of manipulatives on the mats. You can switch up the objects for counting after a few days to keep students engaged in counting practice. Then switch them up after a few days and make the center last all month long.
Step Four: Extend
If your students have mastered counting and are ready for a challenge, you can use these cards for hands-on addition practice! Just have students choose two snowflake numbers, add them together, and write the sum on the snowflake mat with a dry-erase marker. The laminated mats make it easy to write on and wipe off for differentiated use.
My students enjoy working together to come up with the sums when they are stumped, which encourages teamwork and math talk during our math rotations.
Counting Snowflakes Free Download
If you want to use these Snowflake Counting Mats in your classroom this winter, just click below to grab this snowflake free download! It includes everything you need to add some snowflake math to your daily routine.
Free Winter Counting To Ten Center Activity
More Snowflake Fun for Kindergarten
If you’re looking for more hands-on snowflake fun for your classroom, check out my blog post with low-prep centers for January.
In this post, you’ll find a variety of winter-themed literacy and math activities that you can use along with the free snowflake math activity I shared above.
Save These Tips for Low Prep Centers
I hope that these tips and resources will be helpful to you this winter. If you’d like to return to this post later, be sure to save the pin below to your favorite teaching board on Pinterest. You’ll be able to quickly find these tips and resources whenever you need them!
