St. Patrick's Day Seek and Find Activities for Numbers 1-20 and Letters A-Z

Living near Savannah, St. Patrick's Day is a big deal.  Schools close down, the big parade is down town, the fountain is turned green and thousands of people flock to the city for the festivities.  We opt to stay home and avoid the craziness of the St. Patrick's Day activities.  We do our own things at home, one of the more fun things for the little kids are these seek and find mats.  They love hunting for each letter and number as they practice recognizing and matching.

These mats work great for handwriting practice.  Students can find the letter on their card and trace it on their mat.  If these pages are laminated or placed in page protectors, then they will be a reusable center to use with dry eraser marker.

You can also pair these mats with mini erasers.  My oldest daughter loved anything to do with the mini erasers because they were fun shapes and very colorful.  Students can simply find the number on their card and cover it with the mini eraser.  This center can also be used over and over with students who need extra practice with letter or number recognition.

Students can also color the number from their card on their mat.  They can use crayons, markers, colored pencils or anything else that can be used for coloring.

These mats and cards can also make a fun write the room activity.  The teacher will place the cards around the room and the students will color in or trace each letter on their mat as they locate them.  This activity combines the necessary skills of letter recognition and handwriting with gross motor movement to get students engaging with the material in multiple ways.

All of my kids have loved using dot markers for any activity I would let them.  Students can use dot markers to mark each letter as they locate it on their page.

This is my three year old's favorite activity to do with these mats.  She loves picking a magnetic letter and finding its match on her letter mat!  The first time I introduced this activity to her, she wanted to do it over and over.  

These mats are the perfect way to incorporate St. Patrick's Day in your room.  These mats are versatile, with many ways to complete, meaning you can find the activities your students engage with the most.  

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Alphabet and Number Seek and Find Mats - Back to School Buses

It's that time of year when we all start going back to school.  One thing that goes on in many preschool and kindergarten classrooms around this time is an evaluation of what letters and numbers your students already know so you can begin instruction where it is most beneficial for your students.  These back to school mats provide a fun, hands on way to introduce letters and numbers, or for students who already have learned to identify letters and numbers, this activity provides an engaging way for students to review this material.

There are a variety of ways to use these alphabet and number mats.  One of our favorite ways to use these mats is to use dot markers to record the letters we find.  Once a card is turned over (or found if you hide them in a sensory bin or around the room) is for students to use the dot marker to record which letter or number they saw.

Students can also simply color the number or letter they turn over or find.  This makes a great fine motor activity for students to practice staying in the lines.  

Adding bingo chips makes this a great table top center for students to work on independently.  Students will turn over a card then use a bingo chip to cover the correct letter or number.

Instead of bingo chips, you can use magnetic letters or numbers.  You can place this page on a cookie sheet to actually have the letter or number magnets stick.  With this activity, students will turn over the card, find the matching magnet and then match it to the number or letter on the mat.

If you want just a simple matching activity, you can just use the mats with magnets or mini erasers to match the letters on the mat.  In this picture my toddler would grab a magnetic letter and then find it on the school bus mat and place it on top.  

Another activity is a write and wipe activity.  This can make a great writing center for students who need some handwriting practice.  Students will turn over a card then trace the number they found.  This can also be a write the room activity where students walk around the room to find the number then trace it on their mats.

Skills Practiced with these Mats:

• Letter Recognition
• Number Recognition
• Handwriting
• Fine Motor Skills
• Hand Eye Coordination

Back to School Seek and Find Mats for Letters and Numbers

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Christmas Preschool Math Centers for Counting to 10

The preschool math centers for Christmas provide a variety of ways for preschoolers to practice counting to 10.  These colorful math centers are differentiated and adaptable for a variety of student needs.  I love using hands on math centers with my own kids because they seem to pick up the concepts more quickly and they have fun while completing the activities as well!

This activity helps students practice counting and number recognition.  Students will count the ornaments on the tree then place the correct number one top.  Not only does this make a great math center, it can also be placed in a busy binder for a quiet time activity.  

This activity is one of my kids' favorites.  They all love using connecting cubes with activities, so anything I can find to utilize them is always a win!  With this activity, they take the connecting cubes and stick them together and match their tower to the correct number according to how many cubes they used in building their tower.

Playdough mats are also always a hit with my kids.  The mats in this activity can be used with playdough or other manipulatives if you do not have playdough on hand.  Students simple create playdough balls (ornaments) to decorate their tree according to the number on the mat.  

These ten frames cards give students practice counting to 10.  Students will count the ornaments on the tree then fill each tens frame with the same number of manipulatives.  You can use mini erasers, bingo chips, small presents or any other small manipulative to fill in each square.

These tens frame cards also allow for students to use manipulatives to count to the number shown on each Christmas tree.  These counting cards fit perfectly inside a task box which allows them to be an easy to prep, use and clean up math center for young learners.  

Another great activity for a task box, these counting puzzle cards introduce the number words for zero through ten.  Students match the number piece with the tree that has the correct number of ornaments.  These puzzles make a great math center, morning tub activity or quiet time activity.

These Christmas counting clip cards also make a great task box center.  The cards and some clothes pins fit perfectly in these boxes.  Students will count the number of ornaments on each tree and use the clip to mark the correct number counted.  Not only do students get to practice counting to 10, they also get practice using those fine motor muscles.

The final activity in this counting packet are these counting puzzles.  These puzzles are differentiated to help students be successful on different levels.  One puzzle goes to 5 and the other foes to 10.  Students will get practice putting numbers in the correct order.

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