These kids craft activities and cool fun maths games will help develop strategies for addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and other number skills. There are 22 different ideas for you to choose from simple counting to solving word problems. Students can use the blank templates to make up their own calculations or riddles for Christmas and challenge their friends in the games.

They can use these resources to make some math/ maths baubles to bring some festive cheer to the classroom and Christmas tree. This includes ideas from the traditional and much loved Christmas song 'On the first day of Christmas...' and students can illustrate their baubles accordingly.

This product contains 200+ pages of resources for games, instructions and craft activities with an easy to navigate contents and clearly labelled pages.

I am using both the U.S. and U.K. spelling for math/ maths.

How this can help your students:

• fun activities
• games to play with friends to challenge them to come up with more or harder calculations
• craft activities - making festive math/maths Christmas baubles
• they can decide their level of challenge by using easier/ harder numbers and/or operations

How this can help you:

• easy prep - print and provide a few simple resources to make these baubles and lollipops
• differentiation - a variety of math/ maths skills to choose from depending on students' abilities - from simple number recognition, ordinal numbers, counting to complicated cube roots
• easy to navigate using the contents pages
• useful for adult led activities - play games and assess any gaps in children's knowledge and discuss strategies. You can support this with resources such as counting objects, number lines, illustrating concepts on whiteboards etc. to make this learning fun and meaningful
• independent activity - use this as part of a math/maths lesson for pairs and small groups to play and develop their mental math skills
• includes instructions how to play and make the decorations
• for early finishers
• have the resources organised for easy access for children to choose during choosing time, wet play time, golden time to have educational games ready when needed
• fun homework - share the math/maths skills you have been learning this term with 2, 3 or 6 different numbers (resources are in blocks of 6 so can be cut into blocks of 2 and 3 to send home)
• have festive resources for your classroom with educational content
• use the blank templates to challenge your students to write tricky calculations for others to solve
• instructions and text have been adapted to help with dyslexia by using suitable font and less distractive (less clipart) as recommended by the British Dyslexia Association
• resources are in color/ colour and most are also in black and white for more printing options
• cute Christmas and /or winter clipart will make this more appealing
• home schooling - combine math/maths and craft to make your Christmas tree look great

This resource is suitable to print on letter and A4 size paper.

Both U.S. and U.K. spellings are used - in the teaching motes they are side by side as shown here and in the students' instructions they are separate and easy to find using the contents pages.

Try the Lollipop game for free here:

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Christmas-Math-Freebie-7446201

A math/ maths Christmas activity for statistics will be available shortly, please follow me if you are interested.

Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a happy New Year.