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Bat Counting Mats with Tens Frames

Bat tens-frame counting mats for 1 to 10: each mat shows a numeral and its number word, and children fill the tens frame with that many items.
Grades
Preschool–K
Pages
10
File type
PDF
Preparation
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Updated Oct 26, 2026

Subject
Math, Early Math, Numbers, Holiday & Seasonal, October, Months
Topic
Counting to 10, Counting to ten
Resource types
Activities
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About this resource

What's inside this resource

Students will have fun counting up to 10 and practicing fine motor skills with these bat tens frames counting mats. These mats allow students to get ample practice counting to 10 with the colorful and fun images centered around a bat or Halloween theme. Students will want to complete these cards again and again.

What is Included:

There is one bat themed mat for each number 1 through 10. Each mat includes colorful and bright images to keep students engaged in counting.

How to Use:

Students will take a mat. They will look at the number or number word at the top of the mat, and then use playdough, or other manipulatives to count to the given number by adding the manipulatives to the cookie tray.

When to Use:

  • Math Center - These mats can be used in a math center by simply placing the mats and playdough inside each center. Students can work independently or with a partner to complete these mats.

  • Morning Activity - These mats can be placed inside a morning tub or basket for students to work on as classmates arrive to class.

  • Quiet Activity - These mats make a great quiet time activity for students who do not nap.

  • Small Group Activity - Teachers can pull aside small groups of students to practice working on counting.

These playdough counting mats are a low prep activity for teachers to prepare for students. They just need to be printed and laminated for durability. These make a great fine motor activity for preschool students.

The added fine motor component makes these a perfect activity for students to work on their counting skills as well as improving their hand strength by squeezing and shaping the playdough.

Skills Assessed:

  • Counting to 10

  • One to one correspondence

  • Number recognition

  • Fine motor skills

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Count out a set of up to 10 objects to match a numeral
  • Show a number on a tens frame

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Curriculum

Standards, concepts & topics

Standards

  • K.CC.B.4 — Understand the relationship between numbers and quantities; connect counting to cardinality.
  • K.CC.B.4a — When counting objects, say the number names in the standard order, pairing each object with one and only one number name and each number name with one and only one object.
  • K.CC.B.4b — Understand that the last number name said tells the number of objects counted. The number of objects is the same regardless of their arrangement or the order in which they were counted.
  • K.CC.B.5 — Count to answer “how many?” questions about as many as 20 things arranged in a line, a rectangular array, or a circle, or as many as 10 things in a scattered configuration; given a number from 1–20, count out that many objects.

Core concepts

  • Counting to 10
  • Tens frames
  • Number words

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