Bring some St. Patrick’s Day fun into your classroom with these Lucky Charms themed math activities! 🍀🌈 Students will practice sorting, graphing, patterning, counting, and beginning addition using colorful marshmallow shapes inspired by Lucky Charms cereal.

These engaging, hands-on activities are perfect for math centers, small groups, morning work, or a festive St. Patrick’s Day math lesson.

Students will explore early math skills by sorting marshmallows, creating patterns, graphing results, and practicing simple addition with a dice game.

The addition activity can be laminated and used with dry erase markers, making it perfect for repeated use in your classroom.

What’s Included

Lucky Charms Sorting

• 1 Lucky Charm Marshmallow Sort page
  Students sort marshmallow shapes into the correct boxes.

Lucky Charms Graphing

• 1 Lucky Charm Graph page
  Students graph how many of each marshmallow they have after sorting.

Pattern Activities

• 4 pattern practice pages
  • AB Pattern
  • ABB Pattern
  • AAB Pattern
  • ABC Pattern

Each page also includes a blank pattern frame so students can create their own pattern.

Lucky Charms Addition Game

• 5 addition activity pages
• 4 pages feature specific marshmallow types on each bowl
• 1 page allows students to choose any marshmallow

Students will:

1. Roll a die
2. Place that number of marshmallows into each bowl
3. Count the marshmallows
4. Write the addition equation using a dry erase marker

Prep

• Print pages
• Laminate pages for reuse
• Provide dice, marshmallow pieces (or cereal), and dry erase markers

Skills Covered

• Sorting and classifying
• Graphing
• Pattern recognition
• Creating patterns
• Counting
• One-to-one correspondence
• Beginning addition

Common Core Standards

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.MD.B.3

Classify objects into given categories and count the numbers of objects in each category.

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.OA.A.1

Represent addition with objects, drawings, or equations.

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.OA.A.2

Solve addition problems within 10 using objects or drawings.

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.CC.B.4

Understand the relationship between numbers and quantities.

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.G.B.4

Analyze and compare patterns.

Perfect For

✔ Preschool

✔ Pre-K

✔ Kindergarten

✔ St. Patrick’s Day Activities

✔ Math Centers

✔ Small Group Instruction

✔ Hands-on Learning