Fall is the perfect time to bring the excitement of pumpkins into your kindergarten classroom! From math crafts to pumpkin themed worksheets, there are endless ways to make math both fun and educational! This post has 10 engaging pumpkin math activities that not only help young learners build essential math skills but make learning fun this fall!
Pumpkin Comparing Numbers to 10
Do your students need to practice comparing numbers to 10? This free interactive pumpkin-themed math activity is perfect!
Students will find each pumpkin card and identify each number represented in the tens frame. Next, students will decide which number is the greater number and color the pumpkin on the response page to match the color of the pumpkin with the greatest number.
Pumpkin Number Tracing
Make number tracing fun with this pumpkin-themed math activity! Students will find a pumpkin ten frame and then trace the corresponding number! Pumpkin cards can be taped around the classroom or put into a sensory bin! This is a great math center activity.
Pumpkin Shape Crafts
Students will love creating these adorable shape pumpkin crafts. Square, circle, rectangle, and triangle pumpkin crafts are included.
Simply print the pumpkin craft pieces on the correct color of
Pumpkin Ten Frames
Ten frames are an important math tool for kindergarten students. For this activity, students will use a q-tip or their finger to make the correct number of dots in each frame.
You can read more about ten frames in this post, Printable Ten Frame Cards and Activities.
Pumpkin Number Match
This simple pumpkin worksheet can be used with dot makers. Students will look at the number in the pumpkin and dot the matching numbers.
Visual Discrimination Pumpkin Number Cards
Visual discrimination is important because it helps little ones pay attention to details and see differences in symbols like letters and numbers. Being able to correctly (and quickly) identify and understand letters and numbers helps with academic skills like reading, writing, and math.
These pumpkin visual discrimination cards will help little ones start noticing differences in numbers.
You can read more about visual discrimination in this post, Why You Should Be Teaching Visual Discrimination.
Pumpkin Pie Addition to 10
Need a quick and fun addition to 10 math center that can used this fall or Thanksgiving? Students will love solving each of these addition problem and finding the coordinating pumpkin pie picture!
20 different addition problems are included for students to solve using a
Pumpkin Shape Tracing
If you are just beginning to introduce 2-D shapes, this pumpkin shape tracing activity is a great place to begin! Little ones will find each shape and then trace it on the included shape tracing response sheet.
Two different size shape cards are included so this shape hunt activity can be completed by walking around the classroom and finding shapes or by putting smaller shape cards in a sensory bin.
Check out more shape tracing activities in this post, Interactive Shapes Tracing Worksheets for Kids.
Pumpkin Teen Number Math Center
These fun Pumpkin Teen Number Ten Frames are the perfect math center for fall. Students will look at the ten frame and color the pumpkin that matches on the response sheet.
Pumpkin Color By Shape
This pumpkin color by shape worksheet is easy to print and use as a quick review of 2-D shapes. Students will look at each pumpkin, decide it’s shape and color according to the code.
You can check out more activities for teaching shapes in this post, Halloween Shape Activities for Preschool and Kindergarten.
Pumpkin Math Activities
I hope you can use some of these fun pumpkin math activities this fall! Students will enjoy some festive fun while learning math concepts like shapes, counting, number recognition and more!