Carrot Garden Spring Kindergarten Math Activities for Counting to 20

Think of your end-of-the-year kindergarten students as ripe carrots. All year you have watched their green tops grow in reading and math, hoping that beneath the “soil” there was even more going on. As spring approaches, it’s time to “pull” your young learners up from under the earth to reveal the fruits (or vegetables in this case) of all that labor!

The Carrot Garden Spring Kindergarten Math Activities for Counting to 20 are a great way for you to see your students’ growth! With zero prep, your students can prove math skills like counting 1 to 20, number recognition, and more. Choose free Google Slides, Seesaw, or a printable hands-on activity.

Spring Garden Theme Kindergarten Counting Activity

Recommended Grade Level:

Preschool

Kindergarten

Coordinating Activities

Spring Math in Kindergarten

MATH ACTIVITIES FOR KINDERGARTEN

SPRING MATH ACTIVITIES IN KINDERGARTEN ARE ALL ABOUT PUTTING TOGETHER FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS YOU’VE WORKED ON ALL YEAR.

Remember when some of your students didn’t count up to three? I do! And now look at them go! Typically by the end of the year, kindergarteners are counting to 100, skip counting, practicing addition and subtraction, recognizing shapes and patterns, and more!

I love using free Seesaw and Google Slides for Kindergarten at the end of the year to spice things up. Students might be tired of old routines, and teachers have so many end-of-the-year tasks that lesson planning becomes a bigger chore than normal.

These spring theme slides fit right into your science lessons about spring flowers, insects, gardening, or weather.

Use the free printable to assess counting skills and number recognition. Do you still have students that are distance learning? You can easily assign the slides in your Google classroom.

Teachers should encourage thinking before/during/after students work on the free Google slides for Kindergarten:

Is that a single-digit number? Double?
What does that tricky teen represent?
Which number is greater/less?
Can you count the carrots backward? By twos?

Spring counting activity to 20 being played on a tablet

What Can Students Learn From Kindergarten Interactive Google Slides?

KINDERGARTEN MATH GAMES

COUNTING AND NUMBER RECOGNITION SKILLS ARE KEY TO SENDING OUR KINDERGARTEN STUDENTS TO THE NEXT GRADE.

In addition to practicing counting, this great math center activity also provides practice with:

Number recognition
Subitizing
Counting fluency
Writing numbers

Using a carrot themed game to count to 9

Why Is It Important For Kids To Count 1 to 20?

Besides the fact that kids love garden theme kindergarten activities, there are so many other reasons you should lay a strong math foundation with your child.

Develop Number Sense

Counting is an important step to help kids develop a sense of numbers and how they relate to each other.

Increase Confidence

Like the carrots absorbing nutrients under the soil, repeated practice allows our students to grow and feel confident in their skills.

Develop Counting Fluency

Fluent counting is imperative for students to move on to higher-level math skills.

Build Understanding of Quantity

It’s important for kids to understand that each numeral represents a specific quantity.

Develop Subitizing

The more counting young students do, the easier it will become to quickly identify sets without counting.

Increase Accuracy

Number lines, flashcards, and Google classroom activities give repeated opportunities to correctly identify numbers.

How To Use The Free Google Slides for Kindergarten Math

COUNTING WITH KINDERGARTENERS

GIVING YOUR STUDENTS AN OPPORTUNITY TO SHOW OFF THEIR COUNTING SKILLS AT THE END OF THE YEAR MAKES EVERYONE FEEL PROUD.

All you need to do is follow the instructions below to access the Google account or Seesaw version of the activity.

If you prefer a printable version, just download and print.

Then, it’s up to you! Use the activity whole-group, small-group, as a game, as a math center, send it home, you get the idea!

A digital counting game for Kindergarten with a garden theme

How to Get the Activity

Enter your email below and then check your inbox to get the activity.
When you open the file you can click on the format that you prefer to use: Google Slides®, Seesaw® or upgrade to self-checking Boom Cards®.

If you are downloading the Google Slides version you will be prompted to “Make a copy”. This is an important step you need to complete to make sure you get an editable version to share with your students!
In Slides, make sure you are in “Edit” mode, as opposed to “Present” mode. You will see the “Present” button in the upper right-hand corner.
In Slides, just click on the symbol box to highlight it in blue and drag it when the cursor resembles a plus sign with an arrow on each end.

If you choose the Seesaw version, click the Seesaw image to instantly add it to your Seesaw library.
Use the Text tool (click on the large T) to be able to highlight each symbol to move it.

To upgrade to self-checking Boom Cards®, click on the image in the download PDF to purchase the deck to use with your students.
Or check out the Apple Counting Self-Checking Boom Cards® here!
Finally, if you choose self-correcting Boom Cards, remember you must be connected to the Internet in order for the cards to work.

Easy Ways to Extend the Activity

Write the Numbers

In Seesaw, you can click any of the writing tools at the bottom of the screen to have your students practice writing each numeral. If you’re using Google slides, students can write on scrap paper or small whiteboards.

Sensory Bin

Print the slides and laminate them. Then, hide mini carrots or other garden-themed items in the sensory bin. Students must pick a random slide, identify the number, then search in the sensory bin to pull out each specific number of items to place on the number slide.

Scavenger Hunt

Hide the printed pages around the classroom, or outside on a nice spring day. Time students to find/identify each number as quickly as possible. Or, give each student a specific number card to find only that number. There are lots of fun ways to vary a scavenger hunt, and your students will appreciate the opportunity to run around!