early math
Spooky Potions Halloween Counting Activity
math center game
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
Print Task Cards and Labels
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!
