Math Activities for the Holidays

Are you looking for fun ways to keep your children busy (and learning!) through the holidays? Here are three printable activity guides you might enjoy:

Holiday Countdown

Denise Gaskins's newest printable activity guide is FREE for the month of December.

Marking time is hard for children (and often for us adults, as well). I don't mean telling time, which has its own difficulties. But waiting, marking time until the Big Day or Important Event arrives.

Holiday Countdown includes illustrated instructions, along with countdown timers for birthday, Christmas, and New Year’s Eve celebrations, plus blank timers you can adapt to any occasion.

For ages 5 and up.

Snowman Drive

Keep children busy during the hectic holiday season with this fun addition game the whole family can enjoy together.

Players roll the dice and build their creative snowman (or snowbeast). Will you make a fearless pirate or a dapper aristocrat — or a high-scoring snow spider?

Snowman Drive includes game instructions and gameboard pages for single-family or group play.

For ages 5 and up.

Christmas Tree Math Games

Your kids will love these 4 easy-to-learn games and 6 additional activities for primary and middle-grade students to play on a triangular hundred chart. All you need is a set of dice and a few colorful markers.

Christmas Tree Math Games includes instructions and tips for the teacher, math game pages for handouts or learning centers, plus a variety of dot-grid journaling paper.

For ages 6 and up.