Christmas Math Activities for Preschoolers

Are you looking for a few hands-on Christmas math activities for preschoolers? I’ve got what you need! Check out more than twenty awesome ideas.

Whether you’re focusing on counting, shapes, or colors, you’ll find fun hands-on math ideas that are perfect for the Christmas season. Many of the activities can be created with supplies you’ve already got on hand. 

Are you looking for a few hands-on Christmas math activities for preschoolers? I've got what you need! Check out more than twenty awesome ideas.

Christmas Math Activities for Preschoolers

Threaded Christmas Garland
Threaded Christmas Garland
Fun Pre-school Maths. How to use simple homemade bead threading for exploring patterns and talking about sequences with your pre-schoolers.
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Simple Christmas Math: Add & Decorate the Tree!
Simple Christmas Math: Add & Decorate the Tree!
If your preschoolers are working on addition facts, add this Christmas tree addition activity to your math rotation this month.
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Christmas Math Activities & Printable Worksheets
Christmas Math Activities & Printable Worksheets
Christmas math activity tray will help your preschoolers practice counting as they fill a jar with various Christmas-themed items.
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Christmas Ornament Pattern Play
Christmas Ornament Pattern Play
Grab some unbreakable mini-ornaments from Target’s Dollar Spot, and your kids can practice making Christmas ornament patterns.
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Gingerbread Cookies Counting
Gingerbread Cookies Counting
Let little ones practice counting to ten as they decorate some cardboard gingerbread men in this gingerbread cookie counting activity.
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Fun Math Games with Christmas Trees!
Fun Math Games with Christmas Trees!
In less than five minutes, you can set up this fun math game with Christmas trees. There are also extension ideas for advanced learners.
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Gingerbread Man Shape Matching Busy Bag
Gingerbread Man Shape Matching Busy Bag
This gingerbread man shape matching busy bag is perfect for practicing shapes on the go!
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Christmas Tree Game for Toddlers & Preschoolers
Christmas Tree Game for Toddlers & Preschoolers
Get kids up and moving with a fun Christmas tree shape recognition game. It’s easy to adapt this game to work on many skills.
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Building Christmas Tree - Size Sequencing Practice
Building Christmas Tree – Size Sequencing Practice
Building a Christmas tree size sequencing activities will help your preschoolers sequence by size as they build a Christmas tree from paper circles.
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Christmas Tree Math Game
Christmas Tree Math Game
With a few sheets of craft felt, you can set up a fun Christmas tree math activity that focuses on counting.
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Classic Christmas Angel Ornament Math Game for Kids
Classic Christmas Angel Ornament Math Game for Kids
This roll and cover Christmas angel ornament is a unique spin on roll and cover games. Kids will roll the dice, and add decorations to their ornaments.
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Christmas Patterns Busy Bag
Christmas Patterns Busy Bag
Busy bags are a great way to occupy little ones when you need to focus on something else. This Christmas patterns busy bag is perfect for the holidays.
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Christmas Tree Beading
Christmas Tree Beading
Kids will love decorating this pipe cleaner Christmas tree with beads as they work on symmetry, patterning, and fine motor skills.
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Candy Cane Counting Activity with Beads
Candy Cane Counting Activity with Beads
This candy cane counting activity helps little ones develop fine motor skills as they practice number recognition and counting.
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Tangram Christmas Cookies
Tangram Christmas Cookies
Turn your favorite sugar cookie recipe into fun tangram Christmas cookies for a fun STEM activity that’s perfect for December.
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How the Grinch Stole Christmas Math Activity for Kids: Guess & Count
How the Grinch Stole Christmas Math Activity for Kids: Guess & Count
Preschoolers can practice predicting and counting with this math activity based on How the Grinch Stole Christmas.
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Christmas Pom Pom Push
Christmas Pom Pom Push
Turn an old shoebox into a fun motor activity when you present your preschoolers with this holiday pom pom push activity.
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PRESCHOOL BOOKS ABOUT Christmas

Fill your book basket with a great collection of books about Christmas. Most of these books can be found at your local library or used bookstore.

If you have a hard time finding them, you can order them through my Amazon affiliate links by clicking the images below.

Bear Stays Up for Christmas (The Bear Books)The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (picture book edition)Christmas in the Big Woods (Little House Picture Book)

 

Bear Stays Up for Christmas – Bear’s friends are determined to keep Bear awake for Christmas! So they wake Bear up and have him help them find a Christmas tree, bake cakes, hang up stockings, and sing Christmas songs. Bear stays up—by discovering that giving is one of the best Christmas presents of all!

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever – Meet the Herdmans—they lie, cheat, and love to give clonks on the head. They are, without a doubt, the worst kids in the history of the world. So no one is prepared when this outlaw family invades church one Sunday and decides to take over the annual Christmas pageant.

Christmas in the Big Woods – Christmas has come to the Big Woods of Wisconsin! Laura and her family are excited to celebrate. When Laura’s cousins, aunt, and uncle arrive, they spend their time together eating sweets, playing in the snow, and reading. Their holiday celebrations are full of simple joys.

ROUND OUT YOUR Christmas UNIT WITH THESE ACTIVITIES:

Your kids will love decorating and un-decorating this felt Christmas tree all season long. You won’t have to worry about your tree, because they’ll have one of their own. 

If your kids are ready to practice CVC words, they’re going to love matching Santa to the correct gift in this Christmas reading activity.

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