Measuring Christmas Items

I love to find fun and hands-on ways to practice timely skills with kindergarteners! Using everyday items can add so much fun for our young learners.

A quick search around my house this Christmas season and I found the following items that are so much fun to measure!

• Candy canes
• Christmas bows
• Christmas gift boxes
• wrapping tape
• ornaments
• envelopes or Christmas cards

Simply gather up these items and print the corresponding recording page for a fun, hands-on math lesson to practice measuring! Snap cubes are the ideal measuring tool for kindergarten learners since they are uniform in size, easy to manipulate, and stackable. Students can get real understanding of what it means to measure items before every trying to measure with tools like rulers!

Measuring with snap cubes is just one fun way to use snap cubes this holiday season. Creating snap cube pictures is a classic classroom favorite, and with so many holiday pictures to choose from, your students will choose this activity again and again! Sneak in a little handwriting practice with the recording sheet.

Of course, patterning is a snap cube basic! I remember being in elementary school and having a fun time creating patterns with cubes with my friends. Such a basic activity that has stood the test of time! With this page, students can have more guided practice with forming patterns, which leads to more productive and sustained play for your learners who need a bit more scaffolding!

These activities help students work on the following skills:

• fine motor development
• hand-eye coordination
• productive play
• focus
• measuring
• patterning
• creativity

Check out this resource on my TPT store, and if you are looking for more fine motor Christmas activities, check out the BUNDLE to grab lots of my favorite fine motor activities.