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Snowman Shapes for Kids Printable Puzzles

January 5, 2019 By Deirdre

This set of snowman shapes for kids printable puzzles features super fun snowmen heads. Each shape puzzle displays the shape’s name. You will find one letter in each shape’s name of a piece of the puzzle. Your children will have fun putting the pieces together to create a complete shape and shape word.

Building Background Before Starting the Activity

You may have children who haven’t had a lot of experience with shapes and their names. Before you have them explore the snowman shapes for kids puzzles, you may want to read them a book about shapes. This will give them the opportunity to build on their understanding of shapes. Below you will find some of my favorite children’s books with a shape theme.

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Getting Ready for the Shapes for Kids Activity

The first thing you will need to do is to download the Snowman Shapes for Kids Printable Puzzles.
Then you will need to open the set with Acrobat Reader.
Next, you will need to decide which puzzles you want to print out. You will also need to decide if you want them to be black and white or in color.
Finally, you will need to decide if you want your children to cut out the puzzle pieces or you want to cut them out for them.

Exploring the Shapes for Kids Activity

While you will notice that we used our shape puzzles on a tabletop, you can use them a number of ways.

My friend Meghan laminates her puzzles and places magnetic tape on the back of each piece. Her students then place the pieces in order on a giant oil drip pan.
You could attach each puzzle to a sheet of adhesive backed felt. Then your children could put the pieces together on a felt board.
You can glue a few of the pieces onto a piece of paper. Your children could then fill in the missing pieces with pieces you give them.

If you like this shape activity, here are some more you will love:

Building Snowman Shapes with Craft Sticks

Building Alphabet Letters on the Barn Door Activity

Building Shapes with Stickman

Create a Shape Photo Book

STEM Snowman Activity- Building Shapes

January 4, 2019 By Deirdre

One way to learn about shapes is to build their perimeter. This STEM snowman-themed activity invites children to build six basic shapes with craft sticks. Your children are going to love building shapes around of the whimsical snowmen displayed on each of the building mats.

Before you get started with the activity, you may want to read them a children’s book about snowmen. It is always fun to read a book that shares the same theme as an activity they will be working on. There are tons of wonderful children’s books about snowmen. Below you will find several of my very favorite books.
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Getting Ready to Start the Build Shapes Activity

You will need to download the STEM Snowman Activity Building Shapes set. It will need to be downloaded and open with Acrobat Reader. Then you will need to print it out in color. The building shapes activity mats really don’t look good printed out in black and white. They look awesome in color.

Next, you will need to decide whether you want to use craft sticks of something else to build with. You could use sticks from outdoors or long LEGO bricks if you like.

Finally, the mats will need to be laminated or cover with plastic so you can use them over and over again.

Exploring the Shape Mats

You will find so many ways to use the mats in this building shapes activity set. Let me share with you a few of the activities I came up with.

Center Activity

First, the mats and sticks can be set out in a center. Your children can select the mat they want to work on or you can put out the mat you want them to explore.

Whole Group Activity

Second, the same mat can be given to a group of children. They can work on their mat and watch how other children build their shape.

Working with an Adult

Finally, you could work with a child one on one. They will benefit from you talking with them about what they are building. Great vocabulary words like sides, corners, vertices, and edges can be explained. You can even count the number of sides or edges each shape has.

If you like this building shapes activity, here are some more you will love:

First, we have a Building Alphabet Letters on the Barn Door activity.

Second, Building Letters with Crayons will be great to explore.

The third activity you will like is Building Shapes with Stickman.

Fourth, you will love this snow globe shape-building activity.

Fifth, these color-sorting cards will be fun to explore.

Sixth, a set of snowman-themed cup-stacking challenge cards will be great to work on.

Finally, How many ways can you build a shape? will be fun to explore.

Christmas Graphs with a Cupcake Theme

December 17, 2018 By Deirdre

Last year I share with you a set of count, color and graph worksheets with a Christmas tree theme. You really seemed to enjoy them. This year I have a set of count and color Christmas graphs that feature Christmas cupcakes. Both sets of Christmas graph invite your children to create bar graphs based on the data they collect.

Christmas Graphs with a Cupcake Theme

Count and Graph

There are two types of worksheets in this set of Christmas graphs. The first graph invites your children to count how many of each type of cupcake is displayed at the top of the page. Once your children have counted the cupcakes, they start their bar graph. Children will need to color one bar above each cupcake to represent how many of each cupcake they found on the top of the page.

Spin and Graph

The next type of graphing worksheet features a spinning area. Your children will need to create a spinner with a pencil and a paperclip. They will need to spin the spinner ten times. After each spin, they will need to color in a bar above the cupcake the spinner has landed on. Each child will end up with their own unique bar graph. The graph will display just what they have spun.

It might be fun to compare each of your children’s graphs to see if one type of cupcake came up most often on each of their graphs.

Getting the Christmas Graphs

You can download your Christmas Graphs with a Cupcake Theme and open them up with Acrobat Reader. Then you can print out one or both of the graphs for your children to explore.

If you like this Christmas printable, here are some more you will love:

Polar Express Coloring Page

Stickman Algorithm Activity

Christmas Coding Coloring Pages

Polar Express Coloring Pages

Halloween Themed Printable Tangram Puzzles

October 13, 2018 By Deirdre

Earlier this week I shared with you a set of fall-themed tangram puzzles. Today you are being given a free set of Halloween themed tangram puzzles. Your children will have fun building fun Halloween themed puzzles using homemade tangram pieces.

How can you make tangram pieces at home?

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You can trace the tangram set in the free set of Halloween Tangram Puzzle Workspaces onto the front of an old cereal box. Then you can cut them out.
You can print the tangram set from the tangram set onto double-sided Halloween scrapbook paper and then out them out.
You can trace the tangram pieces onto Halloween felt sheets and then cut them out.

Getting the Tangram Puzzles Set

You can download the Halloween Tangram Puzzle Workspaces set and open it with Acrobat Reader. Then you can print them out on a black and white printer.

Once you have printed them out, you can trace them onto one of the materials above. Then you can cut them out.

Before you start the tangram activity, you may want to read your children a Halloween themed book. You will find my favorite Halloween books below.

Your children will find a number of the objects featured in the tangram puzzles in these books.

Here are some more wonderful Halloween-themed activities:

Halloween Candy Learning Challenge Cards- Let’s Build It

Candy Learning Challenge Cards- Let’s Sort It

Halloween Tens Frames Printables

I Spy Candy Corn with Feelings Activity Pages

Fall-Themed Printable Tangram Puzzles

October 12, 2018 By Deirdre

Your children will have fun exploring shapes and using them to create fall-themed tangram puzzles. The puzzles invite your children to slide, flip, and rotate shapes to get them in the correct position. Children that are used to seeing shapes lined up in a row will get to see them in new ways.

Before your children explore the tangram puzzles, you may want to read them a book about tangrams and tangram puzzles. Below you will find several of my favorite books that feature tangrams.

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Getting Ready to Use the Tangram Puzzle

You can download the Fall-Themed Tangram Patterns and open them with Acrobat Reader. This set was designed to be printed out onto a color printer.

Then you will need to decide what your children will use as tangrams. You could give a set of plastic tangrams to use or you could make your own.

How to Make Your Own Tangrams

You can print out the tangram puzzle from the tangram puzzle set onto fall-themed scrapbook paper. If you use paper with a design on both sides, their puzzles with have a fun mixture of blocks. You may need to trim the paper to get in just the right size to go through your printer.
Once you have printed out the puzzles, you can cut out each of the individual shapes. If your children are able, you can have them cut out the shapes.

If you like this fall shape activity, here are some more shape activities you will love.

Fox in Socks Tangram Puzzles

Exploring Giant Homemade Tangrams

Halloween Tangram Math Activity

Hands-On Counting Activities for Veterans Day

September 21, 2018 By Deirdre

This set of hands-on counting activities features counting and skip-counting printables. Your children will have fun putting the numbers in sequence. When they are done their puzzles will display two veterans holding poppies. (The poppy is a symbol of Veterans Day). You will find already-colored and ready-to-be-colored puzzles in this set.

Building Background

Before your children explore the puzzles, you will want to read them a book about veterans. Below you will find some wonderful books to read to your children.

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Getting the Hands-On Counting Activities Ready to Use

You can download the Hands-On Counting Activities for Veteran’s Day onto your computer. Then you can open them up with Acrobat Reader.

Next, you will need to decide if you want to use the already-colored or the ready-to-be-colored versions of the puzzles.

Hands-On Counting Activities for Veteran's Day Skip Counting by 5's

If you choose the already colored puzzles, then you may want to laminate them. After laminating the hands-on counting puzzles, you can cut them out.

Hands-On Counting Activities for Veteran's Day 1-10

If you choose the ready-to-color puzzles, you want to have your children color them before cutting them into pieces. Then you can decide if you want them laminated or not.

Hands-On Counting Activities for Veteran's Day Skip Counting by 2's Ready to Color Puzzle

Advantages of Using the Ready to Color Puzzles

Your children are able to color the veteran’s uniforms to match any of the branches of the military or with a camouflage design.
Children are able to give the soldiers the skin color and hair color that they have.

Exploring the Hands-On Counting Activity Puzzles

There are several ways you can have your children explore the puzzles.

You can place magnetic tape on the back of the puzzle pieces. Then your children put the puzzle together on a cookie sheet or the side of a file cabinet.
You can place Velcro on the back of the puzzle pieces. Next, your children can then put the puzzle together on a flannel board.
Children can put the puzzles together on a tabletop.

If you like these hands-on counting activities, then here are some more you will love:

Halloween Counting Puzzles

Fall Tree Counting and Skip Counting Puzzles

Leaf Themed Ten Frames

Veterans Day Adding Activity

Your children at home and students at school will have fun exploring this free set of hands-on counting activities. These counting and skip counting puzzles have Veterans Day theme.

Halloween Counting and Skip Counting Puzzles

September 17, 2018 By Deirdre

This is the second in a series of three countings and skips counting puzzles. Earlier I shared with you a set that featured fall trees. Today I have a Halloween set that features black crows and pumpkins. I am sure your kids will enjoy exploring the number puzzles in this set.

An Editable Halloween Counting Puzzle is Available

The last puzzle in the set is editable you can choose the counting or skip counting sequence you want your children to work on. You will just need to type in a number into each of the editable spaces on the Halloween counting puzzle. You can individualize the editable puzzle so that each of your children can work on the number sequence they need to learn.

Getting the Halloween Counting Puzzle Set

You will need to download the Halloween Counting and Skip Counting Puzzles onto your computer. Then you can open them up in Acrobat Reader.

The puzzles were designed to be printed out on a color printer. While you could print them out in black and white, they will look better and brighter in color.

Getting the Puzzles Ready to Explore

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You will probably want to print them out onto white card stock and then laminator. Your puzzle sections will last longer on the thick paper with the plastic laminated on it.

Then you will need to decide if how you want your children to work with the puzzles. You can place the pieces through alaminator
Magnetic Tape, cookie sheet or the side of a file cabinet. Children can arrange the pieces so that they are in order on a table top. You can glue pieces from a sheet of felt on the back of each puzzle piece. Then your children can place the puzzle pieces in order on a flannel board.

Halloween Counting Books

You may want to read a Halloween-themed counting book to your children before have them explore the counting puzzles. Below you will find some fun Halloween books that explore numbers.

Fall Tree Counting and Skip Counting Puzzles

September 16, 2018 By Deirdre

A friend recently shared a picture of one of her preschoolers working on one of the Community Helper Vehicle puzzles I created. One of her students was placing the pieces on an oil drip pan. She shared with me that she placed magnetic tape on the back of each of the pieces so they would stick to the pan. That inspired me to create three sets of number counting and skip counting puzzles that have fall themes.

You will find that each of the sets contains a 1-10 puzzle, an 11-20 puzzle, a skip counting by 2’s puzzle, and counting by 5’s puzzles. Today’s set of puzzles features a tree with fall-colored leaves. You will find one of the remaining sets has a Halloween theme and the other has a Veterans Day theme.

Downloading the Counting and Skip Counting Puzzles

You can download the Fall Tree Counting and Skip Counting Puzzles onto your computer and open them in Acrobat Reader. While you could print them out in black and white, I would recommend printing them out in color.

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You will probably want to print them out onto Neenah Exact Index, 110 lb, 8.5 x 11 Inches, 250 Sheets, White, 94 Brightness. Your puzzle sections will last longer on the thick paper with the plastic laminated on it.

Deciding How Your Children will Explore the Puzzles

You can placeMaster Magnetics – B005HYDC68 Roll-N-Cut Flexible Magnetic Tape Refill – 1/16″ Thick x 1/2″ Wide x 15 feet. (1 roll), 07518on the back of the puzzle pieces and have your children place them in order on an WirthCo Funnel King 94482 Drip Tray – Metal Oil Drain Pan, Oil Tray, Heavy Duty, 17 1/2” x 25 3/4”, 6 Quart Capacity, cookie sheet or the side of a file cabinet.
Children can arrange the pieces so that they in order on a table top.
You can glue pieces from a sheet of felt on the back of each puzzle piece. Then you children can place the puzzle pieces in order on a flannel board.

If you like this printable math activity set, here are some more you will love:

Subtraction Treasure Chest Match

Color, Count and Graph Pumpkin Activity

Roll, Write and Count Mats

Ocean Themed LEGO Counting Mats

Leaf Themed Ten Frames

Here are the supplies I recommend you use for this activity:

Building Numbers 11-20 with Crayons STEM Task Cards

September 8, 2018 By Deirdre

Last month a shared several STEM task card sets that invited kids to build letters, numbers, shapes, and tally marks with crayons. The number set I shared focused on the numbers from 1 to 10. Today I have a set that focuses on the numbers 11 to 20. Your children are going to have fun building two-digit numbers with these STEM task cards and a box of crayons.

Before you have your children build each of the numbers, you may want them to read a children’s book that features numbers. The books below

Getting the STEM Task Cards Ready for Your Kids

You will need to download the Learning Numbers 11-20 with Crayons Printable Task Cardsonto your computer. Then you can open the set up using Acrobat Reader.

You need to print them out using a color printer. This will allow the various colors of the crayons to stand out.

Exploring the Task Cards

You can want to have your children work on building numbers in an invitation to play area in your house or classroom. They can work on their own, with you as their partner or with a friend. It is really up to you.

I used to leave activities on the kitchen table for my son to work on while I made dinner. This would have been a great activity for him to work on.

Hints:

You will need to let your children know if they need to match the crayons colors feature on the card. They really don’t have to. Children could use any color they like to build the numbers.

The crayons pictured on the cards are too small for your children to lay their crayons on. You may want to give them a plastic mat or tray for them to build on. It will keep your table or work surface free of stray crayon marks.

Learning Letters with Crayons STEM Task Cards

Greater Than and Less Than STEM Task Cards

Learning Numbers 1-10 with Crayons STEM Task Cards

Exploring the Numbers 1-10 with Tally Marks

Building Shapes with Crayons STEM Task Cards

If you like this math activity, here are some more you will love.

Subtraction Treasure Chest Match

Color, Count and Graph Pumpkin Activity

Roll, Write and Count Mats

Ocean Themed LEGO Counting Mats

Ten Frame Math Activity with Duplo {Free Printable Sheets}

LEGO Geometry Riddles

Hot Chocolate Math – free printable counting mats

Fall-Themed Free Ten Frame Addition Worksheets

September 4, 2018 By Deirdre

This free set of ten frame addition worksheets invites your children to work on addition facts that have a sum of ten. Children will enjoy filling the leaf outlines in each section of the frame with an object that matches the color of the leaf in that section. This activity will give your children a way to work on building addition sentences with objects. It will also give them the opportunity to explore how ten frames work.

You may want to read a book that features adding in it before starting this activity. Below you will find some of my favorite children’s books about addition.

Getting Copies of the Ten Frame Addition Worksheets

This set of Leaf-Themed Ten Frame Activity was designed to be printed out on a color printer. Each page includes two of the same ten frames. You can use one frame to demonstrate how to add to ten or have your children work in pairs.

Great Objects to Use on the Ten Frame Activity Worksheets

Pom-poms
Buttons
Plastic Pumpkins
Orange and Brown Counter
Orange and Brown Beads

Exploring the Ten Frame Activity Worksheets

Children will start by placing correct colored objects in each section of the frame. Then they can figure out how many orange objects they used. The orange objects will equal the missing addend in each sentence.

Then they can look for the other tens frame that uses the same addends. It will give kids an opportunity to see its turn around fact or a member of its fact family.