Make Math Merry – Christmas Preschool Math Activities
Get ready to make the most of the Yuletide season with these fun and educational Christmas preschool math activities for your little elves. Check our list (and check it twice!) of Christmas-themed preschool math activities to keep your preschoolers learning and occupied during this busy season.
As preschool teachers, we know that learning can be a blast when it’s wrapped in a festive package. Imagine counting reindeer, adding gingerbread men, or practicing patterns with Santa – all while having a jolly good time! These activities are designed to reinforce important math concepts in a festive and memorable way.
So let’s “deck the halls with math!”
Christmas time is a great opportunity to make learning fun in preschool! Kids can learn math by wrapping presents, counting them, and sorting them into different piles.
Preschoolers can also get creative by making cool ornaments for the Christmas tree. Singing Christmas songs and playing with jingle bells helps them learn about patterns and sounds.
Christmas preschool math activities offer a joyful and engaging way for your young learners to develop essential numeracy skills.
Our Christmas-themed activities at Stay-at-Home Educator make math fun and easy for preschoolers. Be sure to check out our Christmas activity pack. It is filled with hands-on learning activities that your preschoolers will love this holiday season!
Why Do Christmas-Themed Activities
Christmas-themed activities make learning more relatable and fun for preschoolers during the holiday season. Integrating Christmas-themed activities into your preschool curriculum offers several benefits:
- Enhancing engagement: Themed activities can increase student engagement and enthusiasm for learning. When children connect with familiar concepts, they are more likely to be motivated to participate and learn.
- Building a Festive Atmosphere: Creating a joyful and festive classroom environment can help children feel comfortable, happy, and excited to learn.
- Reinforcing Learning Through Familiar Concepts: Using familiar holiday themes can reinforce and build upon existing math concepts. For example, counting presents can help children practice counting while sorting ornaments can introduce them to sorting and classifying.
FAQ About Christmas Preschool Themes
How do you teach preschoolers about Christmas?
Before pulling out all the stops in teaching Christmas to preschoolers, we must remember to keep lessons age appropriate. Focus on the positive aspects of Christmas:
- Concept of giving
- Acts of kindness
- The joy of spending time with loved ones
- Holiday traditions
What are some Christmas preschool theme ideas?
Some preschool theme ideas for Christmas include gingerbread, Santa Claus, reindeer, winter activities, Christmas trees, Santa’s elves, presents, and the Nativity. Use these themes to incorporate math concepts to make the season with your preschoolers festive and fun.
What are the benefits of Christmas activities in preschool?
There is no limit to the benefits of Christmas activities in preschool. First and foremost, your preschoolers will positively associate values with number skills. Christmas-themed songs, stories, and conversations can help children expand their vocabulary and improve their language skills. Christmas activities are a valuable and fun part of preschool learning, providing children with opportunities to learn and grow in many different ways.
Preschool Math Christmas Activities
Preschoolers can learn math in a variety of ways through Christmas-themed activities. These activities use festive themes to make learning more fun. Here are some free preschool math activities you can do with your little ones this season:
Festive Learning Fun: Christmas Counting Cards
These counting cards feature the numbers 1-20. They display the numbers in festive decorations and adorable Christmas-themed images. Your little elves will delight in counting with these holiday fun counting cards.
Santa Patterns Christmas Math Activity
Ho, ho, ho! The fan favorite Santa Claus is featured in this activity! Patterning is an important foundational preschool skill. Our pattern cards offer ways to develop your preschoolers’ problem-solving skills, with a fun Santa twist.
Free Snowman Counting Cards for Winter
Learn numbers with these fun snowman counting cards! These printable cards have 6 different activities to help your preschoolers practice counting. They’re perfect for learning at school or at home in this season of giving. To add an extra element of fun, let the kiddos use marshmallows as the manipulatives! Your preschoolers will love this extra tasty addition.
Festive and FREE Christmas Pre-Writing Cards
Keep your preschoolers occupied with pre-writing cards to prepare them for writing numbers and words this holiday season! These pre-writing cards are easy to use, and your preschoolers will love feeling like “big kids” as they “write.” Your kiddos can start working with |, —, O, +, /, square, \, and X, and other variations. They offer great practice in a variety of strokes as well as patterns and shapes practice.
Christmas Gifts Ten Frame Counting Mats
Ho ho ho! These adorable counting mats offer a variety of skills practice with numerals 0-20. This activity helps your child become familiar with the shapes of the numbers and its concrete representation in a festive decoration.
Christmas Addition Mats for Preschool
These Christmas math mats are a fun way for preschool and kindergarten students to practice counting and addition. Children choose a number or addition card and add the matching number of poinsettia flowers to the wreath. These mats can be easily differentiated for preschool or kindergarten use.
Free Christmas Counting Cards
These Christmas tree counting cards are a great way to help your preschoolers practice counting during the holiday season. These will help your preschoolers learn numbers, count, match numbers with objects, compare numbers, and break numbers down into smaller parts. Bonus if you can find tiny gift manipulatives to use for this activity.
How to Teach Math to Preschoolers
Preschoolers learn best through play. This is why it’s important to make learning activities play-based whenever possible. Hands-on learning is key. Encourage your preschoolers to play, explore and make discoveries on their own, with guidance from you.
By teaching math concepts using real-life examples relevant to your preschoolers’ lives, you can help them see the value and practicality of math. For instance, you can teach basic math concepts like counting the steps to the playground, measuring ingredients for a recipe, or going on a shape scavenger hunt outdoors. Keep learning relevant and make it FUN!
Make sure your holiday season is filled with festive Christmas preschool math activities. Your preschoolers will be excited to deck the halls with numbers and holly, fa la la la la la la la la. They will feel oh so jolly as they engage in math activities centered around Santa, reindeer, and gingerbread men. The only challenge you may encounter is that your preschoolers will be having so much festive fun that they may not want to stop!
Remember, making math fun and relevant to their experiences is key. Holiday-themed activities can help change the idea that ‘math is work’ into ‘math is fun’! With the right activities, your preschoolers can breeze through their holidays with counting, sorting, adding, subtracting, and more!
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.
