Candy Corn Number Puzzles

Engage your preschool and kindergarten students in a delightful fall or Halloween center with these charming candy corn themed number puzzles. Designed to reinforce number identification and counting skills, these puzzles provide a fun, tactile, and interactive way for students to practice recognizing and matching numbers and number words. As students piece together the three pieces of each candy corn they will develop their number sense abilities. These number puzzles are the perfect educational tool to enhance early math skills and make learning numbers and counting an enjoyable experience for young learners.

What is Included:

This resource contains 20 three piece number puzzles that match numbers, number words, and objects for numbers 1 through 20.

Students will love the puzzles that are available in this resource, which allow students to work on their own or with a partner to complete. These puzzles give students a tactile and hands-on way to practice number sense.

How to Use the Puzzles

• Task Box Activities -- Place the cut out puzzle pieces in a task box so students can complete the puzzles.

• Literacy Stations -- Place these puzzle pieces in a math center for students to choose to do for practicing number sense.

• Morning Baskets or Tubs -- By using the puzzles in morning baskets or tubs, students can stay engaged while they wait for all of their classmates to arrive to class.

The candy corn puzzles can be stored in task boxes that allows teachers to have an easy to set up center or activity that students can easily clean up and put away themselves.

Skills Assessed:

• Number recognition for numbers 1-20

• Reading number words for numbers 1-20

• Ability to place numbers in numerical order

• Counting objects to 20

These candy corn number puzzles are low prep. The puzzles just need to be printed out and cut apart. The teacher may choose to laminate the pieces for durability.