Your children will have fun exploring the numbers 1-10 with this free set of STEM tally mark activity cards. This set of cards invites children to build a representation of the numbers from 1 to ten with crayons. Children will also work on their counting skills as they build each number in tally marks.
If your children haven’t had a lot of experience with tally marks, you may want to read one of the books below. Each of the books focuses on counting with tally marks.
Getting the Tally Mark Activity Cards
You can download the Tally Mark Activity Cards onto your computer for free. Then you can print out the complete set or just the numbers you want your children to explore.
The cards were designed to be printed out on a color printer. While you could print them out in black and white, they probably will look better in color.
Exploring the Activity Cards
Your children will have fun building numbers with crayons. While they could use brand new crayons right out of the box, you will notice that we used crayons we had at home.
Some children will insist that they use the same color crayons they see displayed on the activity cards. If you have crayons in those colors, that is just fine. If you don’t have those colors or your children want to use different colors, that is fine too.
There are three things I want your children to do while exploring this activity. The first is to count out the number of crayons they need to build each number. The second is to build each tally mark creation displayed on the card. The third and final goal is for your children to have fun exploring a math concept.
If you like this crayon-themed math task card activity, I think you will like the four other activities below.
Learning Numbers 1-10 with Crayons STEM Task Cards
Learning Letters with Crayons STEM Task Cards
Learning Numbers 11-20 with Crayons STEM Task Card
Building Shapes with Crayons STEM Task Cards
Greater Than and Less Than STEM Task Cards
