For this Brownbag Back-to-School Blog Hop I’m focusing on crafty math activities for Kinders. Check out the links below for more first day ideas from my blogging buddies! 
Are you going back to school soon? Are your walls and ceilings looking bare waiting for student work? Engaging your kids in a crafty math activity can be a smart choice because:
- your kids will know math is going to be fun this year!
- you can informally assess students in many ways: basic number knowledge, fine motor skills, listening to and following instructions, levels of persistence and engagement etc…
- you’ll end up with purposeful (and lovely) decorations for your classroom.
Click on the links below to be taken to the blog post for each activity. 1. Play Dough and Tin Foil Number Mobiles from Liz’s Early Learning Spot. You can also download a pdf of this activity: Number Mobile.
2. Flower Petal Math from No Time for Flashcards
3. Pattern Snakes from Ms Solano’s Kindergarten
4. Watermelon Math from My Kids Guide
5. Jasper Johns Grid from Art Projects for Kids
6. Kindergarten Roller Coaster from Color for Everyone
7. Butterfly Art from Kreative in Kinder
8. Circle Prints from Art is the Best Part of the Day
9. Shape Garland from Nurturestore
I hope you can make use of these math activities to make your classroom (or home) more beautiful while engaging in fun and meaningful learning.
Do you have a favourite crafty math activity for early in the school year? If so, please leave a link in the comments!
Thanks for visiting the Brownbag Back to School Blog Hop (and thanks for hosting, Mackenzie)!
I love your crafty math ideas! So colorful and cheerful! I bet the kids love them!1 Thanks for sharing!
Debbie
Oh, I love your ideas. I have a big blank wall and something to put up. Thank you.
These are amazing! So cute and creative!
So many cute ideas! I had to pin the pattern snakes- they’re great for a rainforest unit. Glad to have found your blog thru the blog hop!
Chrissy
First Grade Found Me
I love how using black for the snakes makes them stand out so vibrantly. Thanks for visiting!
Love all your crafty math activities! Very glad to have found your blog!
In general, MATH itself is really not going to be fun for kids, but giving it a little artistic touch will really change things up. Another great thing about it is that when our kids find these math activities fun, they will be looking forward to it – and more sessions means more lessons to be learned .
Having them help making these props for math activities would also be great. 🙂
We all have different ways of relating to math concepts. I agree that using art is a great way to engage kids. We’re so lucky now to have so many blogs and Pinterest boards for inspiration. Thanks for your comment!
Now Maths can be one of the most interesting subject for my kids… Thanks for sharing such a wonderful article.