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.

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Christmastime is the perfect time to bring festive hands-on learning fun into your preschool classrooms and homes!

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!

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 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!

Christmas Counting Book For Preschoolers Numbers 1-20…
  • SoulPerfect Books (Author)
  • English (Publication Language)
  • 38 Pages – 10/19/2018 (Publication Date) – Independently published (Publisher)
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10 Trim-the-Tree’ers
  • Schulman, Janet (Author)
  • English (Publication Language)
  • 32 Pages – 09/13/2011 (Publication Date) – Knopf Books for Young Readers (Publisher)
Let’s Count Christmas Counting Book for Toddlers Aged 1…
  • Counting Kids Press (Author)
  • English (Publication Language)
  • 42 Pages – 11/16/2019 (Publication Date) – Independently published (Publisher)
Five Little Christmas Trees: A Counting and Christmas…
  • Bracken, Cindy (Author)
  • English (Publication Language)
  • 36 Pages – 11/28/2020 (Publication Date) – Independently published (Publisher)
Little Blue Truck’s Christmas
  • 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 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!

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This red and green sensory bin is perfect hands-on fun for toddlers and preschoolers and teaches measurement and comparison skills.