15+ Christmas Math Activities for Preschoolers
As the holiday season draws near, keeping young learners engaged can be a challenge. These Christmas math activities for preschoolers offer a fun way to bring holiday cheer into your classroom while strengthening essential math skills. From counting and sorting to patterns and simple addition, we’ve rounded up the best Christmas activities to spark excitement and keep preschoolers focused.
Perfect for centers, small groups, and circle time, these activities make learning both festive and educational, keeping little ones captivated and engaged all season long.

The most wonderful time of year also seems to be the busiest time of year. During the holidays, it’s more important than ever to have relevant, fun seasonal activities that are ready-to-go!
These Christmas math activities for preschoolers are specially designed to capture their attention and reinforce foundational math skills in a fun, holiday-inspired way. By incorporating hands-on learning, these activities make counting, patterning, and simple addition feel like playtime.
Having festive, fun Christmas math activities makes working on numbers and counting just a little bit more special!
From adorable gingerbread man counting mats to jingle bell math, you can’t help but get in a festive mood with these fun-tastic Christmas math activities!
Whether you’re setting up math centers, leading small group work, or planning engaging circle time, these activities offer flexibility and holiday joy. Ideal for creating a festive learning environment, they help children build important skills while keeping the holiday spirit alive in the classroom.
And, since this is the busiest time of year, be sure to check out my Christmas Number Identification & Counting Activities bundle. It is such a timesaver and will help give that extra bit of sanity that we all need this time of year!
-
Product on saleSpecial Offer! – Christmas Number Identification & Counting ActivitiesOriginal price was: $16.00.$4.00Current price is: $4.00.
Preschool Math Activities for Christmas Time
Holiday-themed learning not only brings joy to the classroom but also keeps young learners engaged in developing essential math skills. With Christmas-themed math activities, children can practice early math concepts in a way that feels like play.
Christmas Preschool Math
When it comes to preschool math skills, number recognition, number sense and counting are clearly huge priorities. Ten frames are one of my favorite resources for teaching numeracy, counting, one-to-one correspondence, and subitizing.
Add ADORABLE Christmas scenes to the ten frames, and your preschoolers won’t ever want to leave the math center…unless Santa happens to land on the rooftop above!
Pair these Christmas ten frame counting cards with adorable mini Christmas erasers as counters, and you have a counting activity that is sure to get your preschoolers in the holiday spirit.
Christmas Math Activities For Preschoolers
It's the most wonderful time of year and preschool classrooms are abuzz with festive learning and fun.
I feel like we are always in need of more Christmas math activities for preschoolers to add to our Christmas theme.
I have consolidated a wide variety of christmas preschool math activities to help brighten up your classroom with holiday cheer.
After all, 'Tis the season to be jollly...and it's always the season to practice number sense, counting, measurement and more!
Christmas Math Activities: Ten Frame Counting Cards
These adorable Christmas ten frame counting cards teach number sense, counting, one-to-one correspondance, and subitizing.
Throw in some adorable mini erasers and this makes the perfect Christmas counting activity.
Christmas Cookie Cutter Math Fun
There's nothing quite as Christmasy as Christmas cookies themselves. Kids love cookie cutters, even if they aren't filled with cookie dough.
This festive Christmas numeracy activity for preschool is a fun way to practice counting with the roll of a die.
Christmas Math Preschool Pattern Cards
Patterns are an important part of math and our world. Your preschoolers will get a kick out of these adorable Santa patttern printables.
This Christmas pattern activity for preschoolers will absolutely get your little elves in the holiday spirit while they practice important pattern skills.
Quick and Easy Christmas STEM Activity
In this jingle-tastic Christmas STEM activity, preschoolers get practice sorting jingle bells by size.
This easy center has an awesome Science component where the children analyze if all the jingle bells make the same sound. or if there are differences.
It s also a wonderful holiday math activity for preschoolers, as it includes sorting and counting (optional) of the bells.
Red and Green Christmas Sensory Bin
This red and green Christmas sensory bin teaches preschoolers all about measurement and comparing length and size!
This sensory bin is a wonderful hands-on addition to your Christmas measurement activities.
The festive colors will delight all your little learners and they will have so much fun, that they might not even realize they are learning!
Counting Christmas Sweets Game
Kids will have tons of fun counting Christmas candies with this fun holiday counting game! It is preschool numeracy activity with a delicious twist.
What preschooler won't want to use candy as a counting manipulative?
I do recommend having some on the side that the children can taste germ-free to ensure that they aren't "snacking all the way" as they complete this activity!
Christmas Tree Counting Number Cards
What is more iconic than that beautiful, magical evergreen tree during the holiday season?
Your preschoolers will absolutely adore these precious trees that they can decorate with ornaments (mini manipulatives or candy for a sweet twist).
This Christmas number activity for preschoolers offers numbers and counting practice and will certainly add some holiday spirit to your preschool math centers!
Sierpinski Fractal Triangle: Holiday Math Art for Kids
This Christmas math craft combines math and art with fractal holiday math art. Combining math concepts with art is so much fun and lends itself naturally to understanding spatial awareness and design.
This is a great project to team up with your preschoolers, as it will require some assistance. The end result will be beautiful and festive, for sure!
Jingle Bell Shapes Christmas Math Activity
Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way....into some funtastic Christmas shape building!
This is hands-on math activity is a wonderful addition to your Christmas shape activities for preschoolers.
Your little elves will love exploring shapes and counting with some whimsical jingle bells!
<� FREE Printable Christmas Worksheets for Preschool
Kids typically get excited about ALL things Christmas and these Christmas math worksheets are no exception!
They are festive, fun and packed with tons of learning packed into all the assorted activities.
These Christmas worksheets include a wide variety of math skills and also alphabet and literacy practice, too! And, they are oh so CUTE!
Christmas Math Activity: Graphing with Gift Bows
What do you do with all those leftover Christmas bows each year? Save them for an awesome hands-on Christmas graphing activity, of course!
Your preschoolers will absolutely go wild for this activity where they get to sort and graph bows of all sizes and colors.
They might even think that this Christmas activity is straight from elf school at the North Pole, it's so much fun!
Three Addends Christmas Math Games Freebie
If you are looking for preschool holiday math activities, you have certainly come to the right place.
This contains a whopping 60 pages of Christmas math content completely free! Talk about the season of giving!
You might just think it's, well...Christmas morning when you check out all the great activity options!
Jingle Bells Math Station
When it comes to preschool math games, your kids will definitely want to land their sleighs at this Jingle Bells Math Station. T
The best part is that they will jingle all the way to learning many important math skills including estimation, patterns, sorting, number recognition, counting, and more!
This one is a gem- it is a must-have as part of your preschool math centers this holiday season!
Gingerbread House Geometry: Edible STEM
Geometry and Gingerbread? Yes, please! Make geometry fun when you use it to build the most delicious edible homes ever!
This gingerbread houses will be a tasty part of your Christmas measurement activities and most definitely a favorite for your preschoolers!
Christmas Activities For 2 and 3 Year Olds
This a seasonally perfect collection of Christmas activities for your youngest kiddos.
These Christmas activities are hands-on, engaging, and offer a variety of skills practice, including many math concepts for toddlers.
Get your youngest learners excited for learning this holiday season with these awesome Christmas activities and math games for toddlers! Santa couldn't have planned these better himself!
Christmas Math Books For Preschool
Holiday books that also infuse math skills?! These amazing Christmas books for preschool focus on counting forwards and backwards and a perfect way to countdown to the big day!
- SoulPerfect Books (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 38 Pages – 10/19/2018 (Publication Date) – Independently published (Publisher)
- Schulman, Janet (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 32 Pages – 09/13/2011 (Publication Date) – Knopf Books for Young Readers (Publisher)
- Counting Kids Press (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 42 Pages – 11/16/2019 (Publication Date) – Independently published (Publisher)
- Bracken, Cindy (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 36 Pages – 11/28/2020 (Publication Date) – Independently published (Publisher)
- Amazon Kindle Edition
- Schertle, Alice (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
Kindergarten Math Activities
Preschool, Pre-K and kindergarten kiddos love to learn math in a variety of ways, especially when there is a fun Christmas twist.
Hands-on practice is both necessary and fun, when it comes to young children fully grasping mathematical concepts. Their little minds are going to be extra busy this time of year, so why not let their hands keep busy too, with some Christmas themed learning fun?
If you are looking for some hands-on addition practice for your preschoolers (that are ready) and for your kindergartners, these Christmas Wreath Mats are the perfect Christmas printable. They are so darling and festive, that they are certain to get your kiddos counting all the way to Christmas day!
Here are some more Christmas math activities for kindergarten.
- Christmas Tree Counting Cards
- Free Christmas Math Worksheets for Kindergarten
- Free Kinder Worksheet Pack for Christmas
- Christmas Dot-to-Dot & Graphing
Christmas Math Activities For Toddlers
Toddlers love the holiday season as much as the rest of us! I wanted to share some Christmas math activities that are more geared towards your curious toddlers, but will be loved by your preschoolers, too!
Sensory play, math games and other hands-on activities will not only build toddlers’ math skills, but will develop their fine motor skills, as well!
- Red and Green Christmas Sensory Bin
- Ornament Sorting: Holiday Math Activity
- 9 Christmas Math Activities
- Free Gingerbread Man Activity Cube to Get Up & Move
- Gingerbread 10 Frame Counting Mats


I’m Sarah, an educator turned stay-at-home-mama of five! I’m the owner and creator of Stay At Home Educator, a website about intentional teaching and purposeful learning in the early childhood years. I’ve taught a range of levels, from preschool to college and a little bit of everything in between. Right now my focus is teaching my children and running a preschool from my home. Credentials include: Bachelors in Art, Masters in Curriculum and Instruction.