Send your students on a number hunt with these free printable squirrel find and color the number sheets. Teach number sense in a fun, hands-on way!
Squirrel Find and Color the Number Sheets
This freebie teaches number sense to preschool and kindergarten students using ten frames and numerals. Add them to your math centers for lots of fun number learning this fall.
The resource includes cards for the numbers 0-20, so it will benefit students in preschool, pre-k, or kindergarten.
Very Simple Prep for Students!
This number sense activity is so easy to prep! Just print it out and cut the cards apart. Then, laminate them so students can use them more than once throughout the year. Store them in Ziploc baggies or mesh zippered pouches.
The recording sheets need no set up. Once you have the number cards prepped, you can just print and play.
Setting Up the Fall Number Sense Activity
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Supplies Needed:
- Squirrel Ten Frames & Matching Cards (button to download at the bottom of this post)
- Crayons or pencils
- Clipboards
- Write and wipe pockets (optional)
Directions:
- Print the ten frame cards and the student worksheets.
- Tape or pin the ten frame cards around the room for students to find.
- Give each child a worksheet, writing utensil, and clipboard.
- Let kids hunt for each ten frames and color the matching numeral on their worksheet.
Using this Fall Number Hunt Activity
This activity is super simple for students to use. They will walk around the room looking for the ten-frame or twenty-frame cards. Once they find a card, they will subitize or count the acorns in the ten-frame. They will color the matching acorn with the numeral on it and move on to looking for the other ten-frame cards.
This tool is excellent for an early childhood classroom because students can practice numbers 0-20. Counting practice tasks is essential in the early years, so giving students fun, engaging ways to develop these skills is crucial. This one has the added benefit of getting them up and moving as well.
More Ideas for you!
This squirrel find and cover the number activity provides an excellent way for students to move around the room while getting practice with counting and number recognition and there are several ways to differentiate it for your students.
To start, there are 3 different recording sheets included. Students can use the recording sheet for numbers 0-10, the recording sheet for 11-20 or a more challenging sheet that includes all numbers 0-20. This alone gives you 3 different ways to differentiate this activity.
Students who don’t enjoy coloring, can simply cross of the numbers as they find them.
You can also slide the sheets into page protectors and give students dry erase markers to use on them.
Students who need even more of a challenge can write the numerals next to each acorn as they find them. Or they could write the number word.
This number sense activity will be a great addition to your math resources. Your students will be so excited to practice numbers this fall!
Click the button below to get the Squirrel Find and Color the Number Sheets! Happy teaching this fall!
Check out these other fall math activities!
Fall Missing Number Task Cards
Fall Tree Comparing Numbers Clip Cards
Fall Leaf Teen Numbers Activity (Slides and Seesaw)
