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Looking for the perfect easy prep winter math center for your kindergarten or first-grade students? This ice skating activity is a great way to introduce or reinforce one to one correspondence, counting to 20, number identification, addition and subtraction. Simply laminate the free printable twenty frames and you have an instant math center for January!
Other Printable Winter Centers and Worksheets
1) 10 Snow Themed Literacy and Math Centers – printable easy prep activities for preschool or kindergarten
2) Snowball Sorting – sort out uppercase from lowercase or letter from numbers.
3) Winter Number Puzzle Strips – different designs to practice number sequencing
4) Penguin Letter Matching – one of the favorites from my blog for learning to match lowercase and uppercase letters.
Setting Up Your Printable Twenty Frames
For this activity you will need:
Paper
Printer
Counting tokens
Writing tools
Optional: laminator and dry erase markers
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Print out the pages to your desired size – full size to make them into mats or 2 or 4 to a sheet if you prefer to use them as smaller cards. I would suggest to laminate them for easy and repeated use.
Provide some counting tokens that your student will use to practise one to one correspondence and a dry-erase marker for them to write in their answer in the box. That’s it!
Playing This Winter Math Center
Twenty frame mats are the next step up after your little ones have mastered ten frames. Once children have a better sense about numbers and they are ready to move on to teen numbers, twenty frame mats provide that extra challenge. They are also a visual way for children to work on addition and subtraction skills.
When I played this with my son, I printed them as small cards because I planned it to be an individual activity. He knew straight away that when the top frame was full, it meant 10. So he counted on from there and then wrote in his answer in the box.
He has never been ice skating before but he loves to watch the skaters in action. When he was younger and just starting to learn his numbers, he used to enjoy counting them going around the rink and that’s what inspired me to create this game.
Like this? Then you’ll love my 10 Snow Themed Literacy and Math Centers. These easy-prep games will get your students working on letters, phonics, numbers and more!
Games included:
1) Snowflake Pick and Cover Letters – Kids will pick letter cards and match them with the letters on the playing mat until all letters have been identified.
2) Snowflake Sight Words Bingo – 8 different bingo cards provided for use in small groups. 40 Pre-primer sight words are included.
3) Snowball Letters and Numbers Sorting – Sort the snowballs according to upper and lowercase or letters vs numbers.
4) Snowflake Vowel Sound Sorting – Print out the sorting mat and place the picture cards in the correct columns based on their vowel sounds.
5) Snowflake Write the Room Alphabet – Hunt around the room for a letter card and match the pictures on the recording sheet to complete the game.
6) Snowman Count and Write Numbers – Kids will practice writing number words 1-10. There are 2 versions included – with numbers and with ten frames.
7) Snowflake Counting Clip Cards – Develop fine motor skills and math skills in this 1-20 counting game.
8) Winter Numbers Memory Match – Flip 2 cards over at a time to find matching number pairs until all the numbers have been matched up.
9) Snowman Ten Frame Mats – Adorable counting mats with ten frames for one to one correspondence and counting practice. You can use this with cotton wool ‘snow’, pompoms, buttons, etc.
10) Snowflake Visual Discrimination Cards- Find the 2 matching snowflakes from a group of 6. There are 16 cards provided.
Check it out for more ready-to-go fun!
Other Winter Printables You’ll Love:
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1) Winter Printable Worksheets Pack – 50-page winter packet full of fun activities to help preschool and kindergarten students practice literacy, math and fine motor skills indoors.
2) Winter Freeze Number Puzzle Strips – 2 printable winter theme puzzles to practice number order from 1 to 20.
3) Snowman Ten Frame Mats – Students in preschool to 1st grade will practice counting, making 10, one-to-one correspondence, subitizing, and writing numbers with these snowman ten frame mats.
4) Penguin and Fish Letter Matching – Printable penguin and fish-themed game to pair up upper and lowercase letters.
5) Snowball Sorting – Sort out numbers from letters or uppercase letters from lowercase letters in this winter-themed activity.
6) Penguin Sight Words Write The Room – Dolch pre-primer sight words included.
7) Counting to 20 with Ice Skates – Kindergarten and 1st-grade students will work on counting to 20 and one-to-one correspondence in this free ice skating activity.
Bring winter indoors with these educational tools:
Snow Markers
Playfoam Build A Snowman
Miracle Snow
Fun Books For Winter:
Browse My Most Popular Math Printables:
1) Parking Cars Tracing Lines – More than 10 different tracing line patterns to choose from, all of which help with pencil control.
2) Scarecrow Arrange By Size – 3 different scarecrow-themed image sets that they will arrange from smallest to biggest.
3) Bumblebee Addition Game – Solve the sum and help the bee land on the correct flower!
4) Farm Shapes Mats – Use playdough, pompoms, stickers etc to learn 2D shapes.
5) Popsicle Stick Number Formation – Kids will love forming the numbers 1 to 10 when ice cream and popsicles are involved!
6) Valentines Printable Worksheets Pack – 50 pages of mixed literacy and math activities.
7) Zoo Animals Number Puzzle Strips – Complete these cute puzzles and learn the numbers 1 to 20.
8) Counting Colorful Bugs – This printable book will help kids count to 10 while also learning about color words.
9) Humpty Dumpty Numbers – In this printable game, your students will practice number recognition using 1 dice or simple addition when using 2 dice.
10) Build A Number Santa – Match the number to the correct number word, tally mark and domino to form a Santa Claus
