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Chalk Numbers with Leaves: An Outdoor Fall Math Game for Kids

chalk numbers outdoor fun with leaves

Get outdoors this fall and sneak in a little number fun with your child.  Just takes two items… chalk and leaves to create this chalk number game for fall.

Here’s how you can play this number game with your preschooler.

chalk numbers outdoor fun with leaves

The weather hopefully is starting to get a bit cooler where you live and you’re enjoying fall walks together .  One of our favorite things to do is get out the chalk for sneaking in a little learning with sidewalk chalk .  Although were in Florida  and it’s still a bit warm you can begin to see a few trees changing, including our sycamore trees.  

Plus this math game works with any type of leaf fall or even fresh and green.  Here’s how to set things up for this fun chalk number game with leaves.

Check out our Number Leaf Scavenger Hunt Game 

leaves for fall play with kids

Chalk Number Game with Leaves

Heres how we created a fun Number Activity with chalk.  You could make this a number recognition game for younger kids or you could even turn it into an addition or subtraction activity or for the oldest a multiplication game.  The concept is to simply have hands on experiences with counting and items from nature.  Here’s what you need to play.  

Materials Needed for Leaf Chalk Numbers 

  • Sidewalk Chalk 
  • Fall Leaves 
  • or Acorns 
  • Recycled Tray
Leaves Book for Kids with Sorting Tray

This week we’re featuring leaf activities for our Virtual Book Club for Kids.  So we read the book Leaves, Leaves, Leaves to get things starts for this activity.

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chalk activity with leaves for kids

Directions for Chalk Math Game

1. Go around your outdoor space to collect leaves.  This activity can be done any time of  year but it’s especially fun to do when the leaves are beginning to change for fall.  Be sure to find all types of leaves, makes for more interest plus you can talk about the shapes and colors of leaves as you’re collecting them for a vocabulary experience in science.

Leaf Activity with Leaves for Kids

2. Write the numbers 0 to 10 on the sidewalk or driveway with your child.  For younger ones who are working on number writing skills you can create number cards that they an copy from.  

Or you can write it lightly on the sidewalk and then have them trace over with darker lines.  Really focus on the proper way to form the numbers as they are writing.

Watch this video from Jack Hartman for a song about how to write numbers.

Learn to write Numbers with your Preschooler

Making Numbers with Leaves

3. Add the leaves you’ve collected onto the chalk numbers to focus on how the number outline looks for each number.  I would encourage them to fill the the SAME direction as how you would write the numbers.  Remind your child top to bottom.

*note my picture does not show this which made me realize it was important as I wrote up the activity.  If your child is just learning this can make such a difference in their number writing skills.

Leaf Number Game for Kids

4. Once you have all the numbers written from 0 to 10, you’ve created a number line!  Now encourage your child to count their leaves and place them one by one on the numbers as they count out loud. This is helpful for learning one to one correspondence and number recognition.

This number game can work with acorns or pine cones.  You could even use shells, rocks or sticks to play too.  Have fun outdoors running around and exploring what’s happening and then create a fun number game out of it with chalk.

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Looking for more ideas like this math game for kids?  GRAB A COPY of our new book 100 Fun and Easy Learning Games for Kids!

For more leaf themed activities go check out our LEAF WEEK  for the Virtual Book Club for Kids.

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Filed Under: Math Tagged With: Book Activity, chalk, Fall, grade school, Leaves, numbers, Outdoor Fun, Preschool, sidewalk chalk, Toddler, Tot School, Virtual Book Club for Kids

About Kim Vij

Early childhood teacher, author, speaker and mom of 3. Kim shares ways to make learning fun and parenting an adventure by sharing developmentally appropriate activities.

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Comments

  1. Julia Robert says

    October 16, 2018 at 6:48 am

    This is such a creative idea for kids to learn and the way you have explained this is very easy. I’m sure it’s a great learning idea.

    Reply
  2. Shirley williams says

    September 21, 2020 at 10:41 am

    Interesting and fun way to learn numbers. Thanks for the wonderful ideas.

    Reply

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