How to Make Count and Clip Christmas Lights Cards

Christmas is such an exciting time of year, and we’d be fools to not use that to our advantage. Christmas themed activities are a fantastic way to engage kids in learning with something they already love. These Count and Clip Christmas Lights Cards are so easy to make and perfect for math centers. Your kids will practice counting, number recognition, fine motor skills, and more with this easy Christmas math activity.

Count and clip Christmas lights cards for kids a fun way for preschoolers to learn counting, number recognition, fine motor skills, and more.

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If you’re trying to get ready for this holiday season, and want some festive play ideas to try with your kids, then take a look at all of our Christmas activities for kids. Or you can invest in the Christmas Activity Pack, which is filled with educational printables for young kids.

Materials Needed

To make these cards more sturdy and last longer, you can also laminate them. That way you can bring them out next year without having to do all of the prep work again.

How to Make Count and Clip Christmas Lights Cards

1. Cut the green card into triangles.

You can make them any size you want, but I found that the bigger the triangle the easier it was to put more Christmas lights onto it.

2. Using a black sharpie, draw squiggly lines across the tree.

These lines will be the base for your Christmas lights. You can make them as straight or as curvy as you want. I added a few loops to my Christmas lights because I liked the way they looked.

3. Make your lights.

I did this by punching some circles in white paper using a hole punch. However, if you don’t have a hole punch you can always cut these out using scissors instead.

Glue the white circles onto the lines you previously drew for the Christmas lights. Remember to put a different number of lights onto each tree. I made trees with the numbers 1 – 10. However, you can make more or less, depending on what age group you are teaching.

Color in each of the white circles using a sharpie. You can pick one color, or use different colors to make your lights. You will also find it easier to color in the white circles after you’ve glued them down instead of before. Holding a tiny little circle still while you color it in is difficult.

4. Make your Christmas Tree trunks.

Write the numbers 1 – 10 on ten of the wooden clothespins. Make sure that these numbers match the number of lights on each tree.

How to Play

Step 1: Count how many Christmas light are on the tree.

2: Find the wooden clothespin that has that same number written on the top.

3. Peg the wooden clothespins onto the bottom of the tree, so that it looks like a trunk.

For example, the number 8 clothespin needs to be pegged onto the tree with 8 lights and the number 4 clothespins needs to be pegged onto the tree with only 4 lights.

More Christmas Fine Motor Activities for Kids

Are you looking for more Christmas themes fine motor activities to do with your kids? These play ideas can be used at home or in the classroom to develop fine motor skills. Either way, your kids will love learning through play with these fun and easy activities.

For more ideas, take a look at all of our Christmas Fine Motor Activities for Kids.