St. Patrick’s Day Count & Clip Cards for Preschoolers
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If you need some fun math activities to do with your preschoolers on St. Patrick’s Day, these FREE St. Patrick’s Day Count and Clip cards will make a nice addition to lesson plans.
Add them to your St. Patrick’s Day activities to make practicing counting to 10 fun! You just need a few minutes to prepare this low-prep activity, and have your preschoolers play and learn!
This free pack contains five sheets with six cards each, for a total of 30 cards. You can get it at the end of this post.
Importance of Counting and Recognizing Numbers
Children love counting and preschoolers must get used to numbers and practice their counting abilities because that will develop their number sense, which will set up the foundation for other mathematical skills.
Learning how to count is also an essential step in the children’s cognitive development, which will allow them to progressively develop more complex numerical processing. Counting includes other skills which are recognizing number words and symbols, number word sequence, and enumeration. Since knowing how to count to 10 is an abstract concept based on memorization, working on number recognition early will help children build their critical thinking skills and confidence.
In addition, using counting to combine and separate groups of objects will help them develop their other math skills such as adding, subtracting, estimating, calculating, and solving mathematical problems in the future.
How to Use These St. Patrick’s Day Count and Clip Cards
These cards can be used in many ways such as:
- Small group activity
- Math center option
- Take-home game
- Quiet area option
To prepare this low-prep activity, simply download the file at the end of this post, print them in white cardstock, cut out the cards, and laminate them for durability. Then, give a child the cards and clothespins. The child needs to count the objects on each card and place the clothespin on top of the correct number.
This activity is great for strengthening the children’s adding, concentration, number recognition, fine motor, and one-to-one correspondence skills.
Extension Activities:
To extend the activity you can:
- Add in manipulatives such as mini erasers, buttons, pom poms, mini shamrocks, coins, or any other materials, and have the children match each number with the same amount of objects.
- Have the children trace or copy the numbers using pencils, crayons, or markers.
- Match each number with plastic, wooden, or foam numbers.
Related Activities
Do you need more ideas to prepare your lesson plans? No problem. Just check these other free packs, and combine them with this one.
- St. Patrick’s Day Beginning Sounds.
- St. Patrick’s Day Word Wall Cards.
- St. Patrick’s Day Number Puzzles.
- St. Patrick’s Day Memory Game.
- St. Patrick’s Day Pre-Writing.
- St. Patrick’s Day Find the Letter.
- St. Patrick’s Day Bingo.
St. Patrick’s Day Storybooks
Young learners love hearing stories, and reading is one of the best educational activities for preschoolers, to develop their vocabulary, pre-reading and pre-writing, imagination, and other important skills.
There are many books that you can use for St. Patrick’s Day. You can find some at your local library, used book store, and on Amazon. These are some I like. If you want to add some to your collection, just click on the pictures and my affiliate links will take you to the right page in seconds.
- How to Catch a Leprechaun by Adam Wallace. Start a St. Patrick’s Day tradition with this fun and lively children’s picture book and get inspired to build leprechaun traps of your own at home or in the classroom!
- Ten Lucky Leprechauns by Kathryn Heling. Count from one to ten as one little leprechaun looking for treasure magically becomes ten silly leprechaun friends at the end of the rainbow.
- The Night Before St. Patrick’s Day by Natasha Wing. It’s the night before St. Patrick’s Day, and Tim and Maureen are wide awake setting traps to catch a leprechaun! When they wake the next morning, they’re shocked to find that they’ve caught a leprechaun. But, will they find his pot of gold?
- The Secret Life of the Leprechauns by Luna James. A fun and silly picture book that allows children to enter the life of the leprechauns.
- The Berenstain Bears’ St. Patrick’s Day by Mike Berenstain. Join Papa, Mama, and the cubs as Gramps introduces them to some of the traditions most associated with the holiday, from gathering to enjoy a parade down Main Street to leprechauns and pots of gold.
- There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Clover! by Lucille Colandro. It’s spring and the Old Lady is swallowing a clover, a butterfly, a daisy, and more! Herald spring with this joyful story, full of bouncy rhymes and bright art!
Pin It For Later
If you are in a rush and don’t have time to read the post and download the printable but want to save it for later, pin it to your St. Patrick’s Day or Math boards on Pinterest.
I hope you enjoy this printable, and help your preschoolers have fun practicing their counting skills this St. Patrick’s Day. To get the FREE pack, you just have to click on the link below and put your information, for an immediate download.
Be happy, safe, and creative. I wish you well.
Love,
P.D. Please let me know if you like this printable, or if you need me to create something specific for your preschoolers.
