Christmas Counting Activity

With the festive season coming up, it is a good idea to include manipulatives that fit the theme. It just adds a bit of excitement to an ordinary lesson. These tiny gifts were once ornaments on a string, now repurposed as manipulatives for counting activities!




This fun Christmas Counting Activity lets kids practice counting to 20, counting to 100 or us it as an addition game to help preschool, kindergarten, first grade, and 2nd grade practice math with a fun twist. Great math center for December!





For this fun, hands on math game you can practice a variety of math from counting to 20, counting to 100, addition games, and more.





You will need gift manipulatives that you can make using small pieces of packaging foam and wrap it with shiny gift wrap or buy miniature gift boxes here.




Christmas Counting



Count to 20 Christmas Counting Game for preschool, kindergarten


Counting Out


Roll a die/dice and find the corresponding number of gifts by counting it out.








Christmas Addition Game, Kindergarten Math






Simple Sums


Roll a dice to get a number. Write the number down and count out the gifts accordingly. Get a second number by rolling the dice again. Count it out again. Now count it all up to get the answer to your sum. This can be done with adding and subtracting sums.






less than or equal to Christmas math activity for kindergarten, first grade



Less than or Equal to



Roll two numbers. Count each out and place opposite each other. Decide which side is more and which side is less.






counting by 2s


Counting by 2's




Practice skip counting, grouping etc. with the gift manipulatives too!








Extension Activities


You can make up math word problems like 3 elves delivered 2 gifts each. How many gifts did the elves deliver all together?






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Nadia is South African mom to two littlies, a former preschool teacher and currently working as a reading therapist at a remedial school. She blogs over at Teach Me Mommy about easy and playful activities inspiring you to be your child's first teacher. Follow along on FacebookInstagramPinterest, and Twitter.



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Beth Gorden is a homeschooling mother of six who strives to enjoy every moment with her kids through hands-on learning, crafts, new experiences, and lots of playing together. Beth is also the creator and author of 123 Homeschool 4 Me where she shares 1000+ free printables, creative homeschool lessons, crafts, and other fun ideas to help preschool and homeschooling families have fun while learning and exploring together.