Christmas Counting - Gingerbread Maths EYFS

Christmas counting for EYFS and Reception: children decorate a watercolour gingerbread house with cut-out sweets, biscuits and marshmallows, counting each one onto the house or a ten frame.

What children will explore

• Counting to 10 - one-to-one correspondence, matching a card to a set of pieces
• The ten frame - one treat in each square, so children see how many and how many more
• Numerals - number tiles 1 to 10, and a written total at the top level
• Fine motor control - cutting out and placing pieces just over 4 cm across
• Understanding the world - four true facts about gingerbread and a hunt for real baking things in the kitchen

Meet the treats

• Gumdrop - a sugared sweet
• Peppermint - a wrapped peppermint sweet
• Candy cane - peppermint stripes, red and white
• Chocolate button - a round of milk chocolate
• Gingerbread man - a spiced biscuit
• Star biscuit - a star with white icing
• Marshmallow - soft and pink
• Wafer fan - a crisp wafer for the roof

What’s inside - 23 pages

• A Gingerbread House mat and a Counting Frame (ten frame) mat
• 40 treat pieces and 10 number tiles to cut out
• 18 house cards in three levels: Dot (to 5), Swirl (to 8) and Frost (to 10, with a written total)
• Two blank cards for children to invent their own house
• Find It For Real: eight baking things to find in the kitchen, from flour to the whisk, with safety notes for adults
• Four true facts about gingerbread, from ginger growing under the ground to blue tits that hang upside down
• Answer key for all 18 cards

Why teachers and parents love this pack

• Counting children can hold: pieces to pick up, move and count again
• Three levels in one kit, so it works across Nursery, Reception and Year 1
• Laminate once and add hook-and-loop dots (both optional) for a maths area or tuff tray activity that lasts all December
• All the sweets and none of the sugar: every treat is paper and ready for the next game
• Safety lines for the oven and raw egg on the kitchen page
• Botanical watercolour illustrations, not clip art

Instant PDF download, 23 pages. Fits A4 and US Letter. Print as many copies as you need for your class or family.

Created by Lex & Fox Press using a mix of human and AI techniques.