Sneak in some outgrageously FUN summer math with this hands-on ice cream activity. This ice cream math has preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten age children practice adding up scoops of ice cream to find the sum. All you need are the ice cream printables with the task cards and playdough. This summer printables helps introduce preschoolers to the concept of addition while having fun with playdough! Simply print pdf file with ice cream math games and you are ready to play and learn with this summer activity for preschoolers.
Ice Cream Math
This ice cream activity allows preschoolers and kindergartners to practice adding numbers to figure out the new total. This ice cream math is such a fun, hands-on summer math for keeping kids learning during the summer with an ice cream theme activity for parents, teachers, homeschoolers, summer camp, or summer activity for preschoolers. You will love that this is super LOW PREP. Just grab the ice cream printable and soe playdough (or large pompoms) and you are ready for preschool summer activities.
Ice cream counting printable
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Ice cream math activities for preschoolers
This activity is a gentle introduction to preschool addition with a hands on ice cream addition activity using playdough! There are lots of extensions depending on your child’s age and interest.
Basically students will use the ice cream cone addition mat as a base to add their playdough ice cream scoops. Then preschoolers will look at one of the ice cream task cards to see what to scoop on the cone. This example shows 1 brown scoop and 1 pink scoop. Students will roll balls of playdough to represent each scoop and stack them on the cone.
Ice Cream Math Worksheets
Make this activity extra educational by narrating what they are doing using math terms. You have 1 chocolate scoop and are adding 1 strawberry scoop. Now you have 2 scoops altogether. Then pointing the scoops say 1 plus 1 equals 2. You have 2 scoops of ice cream on your cone. Pretty soon your young learner will start carrying on their own narrative using the new vocabulary you have given them.
Ice cream math activity
For older preschoolers or kindergartners completing this math activity you can choose to use the simple ice cream task cards or the task cards that show the addition math equation on the side.This preschool summer learning activity makes math fun with a hands on ice cream addition activity.
Extension Activity:
- Use the simple addition cards and then once they’ve completed the hands-on activity see if they can find the equation task card that matches their problem
- Set out the ice cream cone and playdough balls while narrating the equations. Now have students figure out what task card matches the activity.
- Have students play a matching game to put together the pair of task cards that set out the same equation.
Ice Cream Activities
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Ice Cream Printables
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Ice Cream Worksheets
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Ice Cream Math
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Preschool Math Activities
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Ice Cream Math Games
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