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Winter roll and color games

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Roll and color games are a great way to reinforce basic math concepts.  Get five freebies in this set!

Get five free winter roll and color games for preschool and kindergarten!

This week I’m sharing a set of five free games.  My Four loved the variety in these games – and I loved seeing his math skills grow!

Get five free winter roll and color games for preschool and kindergarten!

Are you familiar with Roll & Color games?  They’re also called Roll & Cover, which is actually how we used these.

You’ll find five different games in the download.

Game 1

The first (pictured above) is the simplest.  Have your preschooler roll a single die and cover the matching one on the board.  This is great for helping kids with subitizing – which means knowing how many there are in a group without counting each individual object.

For example, the goal is for your child to look at a six on a die and know how many dots there are without counting each pip.  I just had to throw that in there. Recently my big kids learned from one of their 1000 facts books that the dots on dice are called pips. 🙂

Technically, your child could play this game without thinking about how many dots are on each die – but I found that my preschooler instinctively wanted to know how many dots were on a die rather than just look for the matching one.

Get five free winter roll and color games for preschool and kindergarten!

Game 2

The second game was a nice challenge for my Four. He had to roll the die, identify the number of dots, and then cover the snowball with the number showing one more.

He really enjoyed this and played until every number was covered.  I think it helps that we use our colorful glass gems to play. They are such a cool manipulative!  (If you don’t want to pay for shipping on Amazon, look for these at your local craft store.)

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Game 3

For this game, he had to roll the die and cover the number that showed one less.

Midway through this game, he was tired, so we put the games away.

Game 4

Game 4 asks your child to add two dice and find their sum.

Game 5

Game 5 asks your child to roll a single die and find the number that, added to it, will make 10.

How to play with two players

The great thing about these games is that kids can play them individually OR as two player games.  To make it a competitive game, have each player use a different colored crayon or manipulative. When the entire board is colored or covered, the person who colored or covered the most snowballs, wins.

Enjoy!

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21 Comments

  1. Melissa

    November 2, 2019 at 10:16 am

    After working with upper grade special needs children for 20 years, I have move to our Pre-K unit. I love my new little ones but have had a difficult time locating all the resources I need to work with them in one spot. Thanks to you I now have a one stop shop to find what I am looking for. Thank you so much!! I really love this site! All of the ideas that you have shared and activites with worksheets are amazing. Thank you again!!

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  2. Melanie

    February 26, 2019 at 6:30 am

    Anna, I absolutley LOVE ALL your resources. They are perfect for my second grade class. I always look forward to your emails and the new resources that you share. I was wondering if you have other versions of the Valentines Math for grades 3-5 that you shared recently? These were the bingo type games that students played by themselves. My class loved them! Do you have other seasonal/holiday versions or non-specific versions that could be used at any time of the year? Thank you so much for your high quality resources!

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    • Anna G

      March 5, 2019 at 2:04 pm

      Hi Melanie! Nothing at that level, except perhaps some of these: https://www.themeasuredmom.com/40-free-printable-math-games-for-math-fact-fluency/

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  3. Rosanna Romeo

    December 2, 2018 at 8:14 pm

    Could not open the link. 🙁

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    • Anna G

      December 2, 2018 at 8:18 pm

      What is happening when you try? You should see a pop up to enter your email address, as the file will be emailed to you.

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      • brandi

        January 10, 2019 at 10:15 am

        same, when i try to subscribe it get’s stuck on submitting…

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        • Anna G

          January 10, 2019 at 1:38 pm

          Did you check your email?

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  4. Laura Smith

    March 15, 2018 at 1:39 pm

    Anna,
    I just found you when I was looking for travel games for an upcoming family trip in June. Your site is AMAZING!!! I added your site to my list of favorite websites and wrote “Awesome stuff!” next to it! You have done all the hard work for us moms and I LOVE it!! I’ve printed-out and laminated several and will be doing more, I am sure. Thank you SO much!

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    • Anna G

      March 18, 2018 at 6:47 am

      That’s so kind of you, Laura – thank you so much for the encouragement!

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  5. Linda

    August 24, 2017 at 9:52 am

    I’m so grateful to have found your website as we’re about to start a new school year here in Manitoba, Canada! I teach Kindergarten and I’ve been searching for meaningful and fun activities for a loooong time. Mission Accomplished! Thanks to you!!

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    • Anna G

      August 28, 2017 at 9:47 pm

      I hope the start of your year is going well, Linda!

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  6. Mary Westerlind

    December 28, 2016 at 8:13 am

    You’re always offering amazing resources, thank you!!!!!

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    • Anna Geiger

      December 28, 2016 at 10:53 pm

      Thank you for the kind words, Mary!

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  7. Safiya

    December 12, 2016 at 6:06 pm

    I`m really astonished at your amazing success. Than you for sharing others all these resources.

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    • Anna Geiger

      December 13, 2016 at 11:49 am

      You’re very welcome, Safiya!

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  8. Tiffany

    November 27, 2016 at 6:53 pm

    I absolutely LOVE this site!! You’ve taken the hard part out of setting up centers! Teaching kindergarten just got a little easier!

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    • Anna Geiger

      November 28, 2016 at 11:16 am

      Yay – that’s fantastic to hear, Tiffany! Thanks so much for taking the time to leave a comment.

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    • Debbie

      January 17, 2020 at 7:03 am

      I love this site too but is anyone having issues with the roll and color winter? The link to print is broke

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      • Kate Dowling

        January 17, 2020 at 4:15 pm

        Hi Debbie!
        This is Kate, Anna’s assistant. I’m sorry you had trouble! The link is working right now; if you can’t click the green box, please disable your adblocker. If you still can’t get the link to respond, try using Google Chrome for your browser. Then you should get an email with a link to the file. If for any reason that link in your email doesn’t open to the file, please forward the email to Anna. We want you to be able to use this resource!

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