Christmas Counting Activities for Preschoolers
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It can be hard to keep your preschoolers focused on learning through the holidays. Their minds are full of wishes for Santa, vacation, and fun. However, when you provide them with activities that are educational and make them feel like they are just playing like this one, you can keep them engaged in the holiday-based learning process.
Christmas Counting Activities
Preschoolers need to know how to count to ten, to develop the foundation required to do more complex math activities in the future. These Christmas Counting Activities will provide preschoolers with a lot of practice in counting to ten, and improve that necessary skill.
These hands-on activities will keep your children engaged in a fun way that will not overwhelm them, which is the key to helping them develop basic counting skills. These worksheets are perfect because it’s just a matter of printing them out and going! You don’t need to prep them.
In this pack, you will find eight pages divided into four different activities. Each activity has two pages to work on.
Getting the Activity Ready
Print each page using white paper, and give each child one page at a time. Have them use pencils, crayons, or markers to match or circle the correct numbers. If you want to use the pages multiple times, print them out in white cardstock and laminate them, or place them in dry-erase pockets, and use dry-erase markers to work on them.
Materials You Will Need:
- Printer
- White paper or cardstock.
- Laminator or dry-erase pockets.
- Pencils, markers, crayons, or dry-erase markers.
How to Use These Printables
Since your preschoolers don’t know how to read yet, you will have to give the children one of the pages and instruct them how to use it. The activities are different, but all of them involve counting.
- Count and Match: the children count the presents under the tree and/or on top of the car and trace a line to match the amount with the correct number.
- Count and Circle: they will have to count the pictures in each rectangle and circle the correct number. A different way of doing this activity is using Christmas clothespins to mark the number.
- Count and Circle: this activity involves counting the elves on the sleight or the ornaments in the wreaths, and circling the correct number.
- Count and Write: they will have to count the Christmas animals in each row and write the correct number in the square.
Benefits of These Activities
These activities will help your preschoolers strengthen their:
- Counting abilities.
- Concentration.
- Number recognition.
- One-to-one correspondence.
- Fine motor skills.
Good Books About Christmas
You can never forget to include books in every activity you do and every center you have. It is one of the most important tools you should have in your arsenal to help your preschoolers’ learning process develop fully.
I always suggest changing your library, centers, and book baskets with great books related to the different seasons and themes. These are some suggestions for good books you can use for the holidays. Most of them can be found at your local library or used bookstore, but you also can order them on Amazon, to add to your collection.
For easy access, you can order them through my Amazon affiliate links by clicking the titles below.
- All I Want for Christmas Is Ewe by Ross Rossner. Combining beautiful illustrations, charming animal puns, and the evergreen message of love, this book is a marvelous way to celebrate the season and share your love for each other.
- ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas on the Farm by Craig Manning. In this Christmas picture book for kids, readers will love sharing in the excitement before Santa Claus arrives in this charming twist on the classic holiday story filled with sweet farm animals, delightful rhymes, and beautiful illustrations.
- The Christmas Wish by Lori Ever. Long ago, a brave little girl named Anja wanted to be one of Santa’s elves. So she leaves a note for her family and helps her elderly neighbor prepare for the holiday, then she straps on her skis and heads out into the snowy landscape. A generous trim size, matte cover, extraordinary photographs, and foiled title make this a special book for the holiday season.
- Little Red Sleigh by Erin Guendelsberger. This heartwarming book is full of winter joy and Christmas magic and will remind you and your kids that no dream is out of reach if you believe.
- The Littest Christmas Tree by R. A. Herman. There are only five days until Christmas, and the Littlest Christmas Tree is still waiting for a home, then, on Christmas Eve, its wish comes true when the man who runs the Christmas tree stand takes it home to his family.
- A Silly Milly Christmas by Sheri Wall. With plenty of rhyming and repetition, this book is perfect for reading aloud, early learning, and animal lovers everywhere.
Pin It For Later:
If you want to save this activity for later, just pin it to your Christmas and/or Math board on Pinterest and it’ll be there for when you need it!
To get your FREE Christmas Counting printable, just click on the link below, for an immediate download.
I hope you and your preschoolers enjoy these printables, and the holiday season is full of blessings for you, your family, and your students.
Be happy, safe, and creative. I wish you well.
Love,
P.D. Please let me know if any of these printables worked for you, or if you think I need to add or replace something. My goal is to help you in any way I can and I don’t like anything better than to post something that you might find useful.
