We're hitting that point in the year when it's time to change things up and switch out those boring math centers. With Thanksgiving approaching I thought it would be fun to add some centers with Thanksgiving themed activities. Your students will be eager to practice their math skills with these fun and easy-to-prepare Thanksgiving math centers. These 5 centers can be set up in just a few minutes, your students can rotate through them all week to experience all 5. Be sure to download your FREE printable math activity sheets to get started.
Practice those multiplication skills by making pumpkin arrays. Your students can use multiplication flash cards to practice their multiplications skills. For each card have your students create an array with the felt pumpkins to model the multiplication problem. When they are all done they can check it with the magic wand. When your students have mastered their flashcards have them use the Multiples of clip cards to apply what they have learned. Simply find the multiples of the given number and add the clip to the card. Students can turn the card over and check their answers on their own.
Have your students get their creative juices flowing. At this center they can use their imagination to create their own fall or Thanksgiving themed word problem. Just draw a picture and think of a word problem to match. Your students can practice their addition, subtraction, multiplication or division skills with this fun Turkey writing craft kit. Just add some containers of colored pencils to get them started. This kit comes with the writing paper so all they have to do is add some foam stickers onto the turkey cutout and glue onto their writing page. These will look great hanging around the room! Your students will enjoy walking around the room reading and solving each one.
Learn a little more about geometric shapes with this fun math center. Create 3 of the shape turkeys, and download the printable for this center HERE. Once you've assembled the shape turkeys, have students identify the shape of each turkey on their worksheets. They will record how many sides and vertices each one has. They can also hunt for more shapes on the turkeys and record them on their sheet. Your students will love identifying their shapes with this fun math center.
Help students practice their graphing skills with these fun stampers. Use the fall stampers to stamp a few harvest pictures onto a leaf cutout. Have the students use one of the graph templates from the Early graphing activity set and the fall stampers to create a picture graph from the images on the leaf. These stamps will easily wipe away with a tissue. When they are done with their graph your students can practice completing different graphs using the Early graphing activity set.
Combining measurement and graphing skills into this one fun center is a great way to review this fall. Get started by downloading your FREE Printable. Have students select 10 feathers from a basket. Look at the feathers and place them in order from shortest to tallest. Use the ruler to record the measurement of each feather. Next, sort your feathers into colors. Use the data table to record how many of each color you have. Lastly, use the information to create a bar graph. Be sure to label your categories and give your graph a title.
