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Use this free printable Valentines tally marks cards as a preschool or kindergarten math center to help your students develop their number sense and learn subitizing with tally marks. These clip cards are a great, hands-on way to practice counting by 5’s, counting on and working on fine motor a bit as well!
Other Printable Valentines Centers and Worksheets
1) Valentines Worksheets Pack – 50 pages of free Valentine’s themed printable worksheets for kids. Includes a variety of literacy, math and fine motor activities.
2) Valentines Alphabet Clip Strips – Combine letter recognition and fine motor practice in this fun Valentines themed activity.
3) Valentines Alphabet Match – Match the upper and lowercase letters.
4) Valentines Literacy and Math Themed Centers – Get your kids excited for Valentines with these 10 literacy and math centers perfect for pre-k to 1st grade.
Setting Up Your Valentines Tally Marks Cards
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Prepping these tally mark clip cards is a fairly quick and simple task.
Just print out the sheets, laminate them to keep them sturdy and cut them into individual cards. Laminating ensures durability, will save you from having to print them often and keeps them from getting bent under the weight of the clothespins. Set up your Valentines math center with a bowl of clothespins and you’re ready so start subitizing!
Printable Valentine Number Sense Activity
As a mom of 2 trying to find fun ways to help her kids understand number sense, I’ve had to do some research into the world of early years education. Along the way, I’ve learned a few interesting new words and ‘subitize’ is one of them. Subitize basically means being able to identify a number when represented in a different way. This might be in tally marks, dominoes, dice, finger counting, etc.
These Valentines tally mark cards can also be used to encourage your students to count by fives once you get to the bigger numbers. In fact, they’ll have to switch between counting by fives and then counting on by ones, making it even more of s challenge! For example, 18 would be “5,10,15…16,17,18.”
To make the cards self-correcting, you could mark the correct answers with a dot or sticker on the back. This way, your little one just needs to flip it over and you can have some time to do other things. They will love that extra independence!
Like this? Then you’ll love my 10 Valentines Themed Literacy and Math Centers. These easy-prep games will get your students working on letters, phonics, numbers and more!
Games included:
1) Alphabet Clip Strips – identify lower and uppercase of the letter shown, work fine motor and literacy at the same time!
2) Letter Case Matching Hearts – 2 piece puzzles for A-Z
3) Spin and Cover Letters – 5 Letter identification mats for A-Z for use with plastic spinner or a simple paperclip and pencil
4) Valentines Vowels – fill in the missing vowels of common CVC words, 40 cards included (8 each for A,E,I,O,U)
5) Valentines Cards Syllable Sort – sort out the picture cards into the mailbox showing the correct number of syllables
6) 1-10 Memory Game – tally and number versions included
7) Roll to 100 – special printable hearts design dice
8) 1-10 Lego Mats – practice writing out the number and forming the number with blocks
9) 1-10 Number Tracing Strips – perfect for dry erase writing practice
10) Which Has More Clip Cards – identify which group of chocolates is bigger
Check it out for more ready-to-go fun!
Other Valentines Printables You’ll Love:
1) Valentines Alphabet Clip Strips – Kids will choose among 5 different letters on the strip to identify the matching ones.
2) Valentines Tally Mark Cards – Learn how to count tally marks up to 20.
3) Valentines Worksheet Pack – 50 pages of mixed printables for literacy and math.
4) Kindness Number Puzzle Strips – Counting and number sequencing from 1 to 10.
5) Roll and Cover Number Hearts – Practice number recognition up to 6 with the special printable dice.
6) Valentines Alphabet Match – Students will put together uppercase and lowercase letters.
Fun Books About Kindness and Love:
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
