Kids will have fun decorating Gingerbread houses while working on making and completing patterns with this super cute, free printable Christmas math activities. Using these Christmas playdough mats is an engaging activity for toddler, preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten age children. Students will love working on this hands-on math activity in December even more than using Christmas Worksheets.
Christmas Math Activities
We love using fun Christmas themed activities to keep kids engaged and to make learning fun during the holiday season. This gingerbread house activity helps toddlers, preschoolers, and kindergartners practice completing patterns with a fun Christmas math activity! Simply use the free Christmas playdough mats and your favorite playdough recipe and you are ready to have fun finishing the Christmas lights on the math mats for December! This engaging activity is way more fun than a Christmas Math Worksheet to help kids learn in December.
Whether you are a parent, teacher, or homeschooler – you will love this hands-on math activity! Use it as extra practice, math center in your classroom, or supplement to you homeschool math curriculum.
Christmas Worksheets
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Christmas Playdough Mats
Print the Christmas printables in color, on cardstock or laminate for durability. There is winter scene gingerbread house Christmas Playdough mat and 8 different pattern strips for your student to use as task cards.
Patterns Activities
Cut out the house mats and pattern strips.
Patterns for Preschool
Preschoolers will pick one pattern strip at a time. Then they will make circles out of playdough and place them on the roof line to decorate the gingerbread house following the pattern.
Christmas math activities for preschoolers
Students will repeat the pattern as many times as they need so that they can cover the whole roof. This is such a fun, hands-on math activity for Christmas!
You can also use this activity with gumdrops, mini light bulb manipulative, unifix cubes, or other colored holiday items.
Gingerbread Theme
- Gingerbread Man Comprehension Questions Worksheets
- Free Gingerbread Man Worksheets
- Gingerbread Addition Game
- Free Gingerbread Man Sequencing Activity
- Super Cute Gingerbread Rhyming Puzzles
- Gingerbread Sight Word Coloring Sheets
- Gingerbread Addition Puzzles
- Christmas Patterns Activities decorating Gingerbread house with playdough
- Lots of ideas in this Gingerbread Theme for Preschoolers
- Simple Gingerbread Coloring Pages to decorate
- Gingerbread Number Order Printable
- 16 Fun-to-Read Gingerbread Books for Kids
- Epic Gingerbread Puffy Paint
- No stick Gingerbread Slime Recipe
- Puffy Gingerbread Ornament Recipe
- LOTS of fun Gingerbread Crafts and Activities
- Best Gingerbread Cookie Recipe – they come out soft every time!
Free Christmas Worksheets
Looking for more fun Christmas themed, FREE printables for preschoolers in December? You will love these choices:
- Christmas Worksheets for Preschoolers
- Easy-to-Make Christmas Hat Craft for Kids
- Fun to make Christmas Playdough Mats
- These Christmas sight Word Games help kids work on reading fluency.
- Help kids work on color recognition with these Stockings Christmas Color Game
- Practice Counting to 20 with these Christmas Tree Playdough Mats
- These Christmas Stocking Traceable Letters are a fun way to practice writing alphabet letters
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