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Spooky Potions Halloween Counting Activity

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Halloween is just around the corner, and if you’re looking for a fun, hands-on way to bring some spooky excitement into your preschool or kindergarten classroom, then I have just the thing for you! 

 

 

The “Let’s Make Spooky Potions” Halloween Counting Task Cards are a fantastically engaging math center activity that will have your little learners bubbling over with excitement.

 

Imagine transforming your classroom into a spooky math lab where students concoct eerie potions while practicing counting, addition, and fine motor skills! 

 

Students will love picking their potion ingredients (from bats to candy corn) and adding them into their cauldron while mastering key early math concepts like number sense, one-to-one correspondence, and number recognition.

skills used

  • One to one correspondence

  • Number recognition

  • Counting skills

  • Simple addition to 5 and 10

  • Work recognition

  • Fine more skills

directions

Let's Make Spooky Potions

  • Tape labels to cups and fill with potion ingredients

  • Add cauldron, cups and cards to a tray

  • Add to your Math Center or set out on a table

Students pick a card

Students look at the task card and count out how many of each ingredient is needed for the spooky potion

Student adds the ingredients to the cauldron

Students pick a new card and repeat

Students determine how many more ingredients are needed to have 5 total ingredients

Students determine how many more ingredients are needed to have 10 total ingredients

Students can empty the cauldron and sort the potion ingredients back to their cups

Spooky MATH fun your students and kiddos will absolutely LOVE!

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