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Hot chocolate counting mats #1-20

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Looking for a fun winter themed math activity? Try hot chocolate math!

Print these fun hot chocolate counting mats for a winter themed math activity!

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Hot Chocolate Math Activity

Print these  twenty colorful hot chocolate cups and get out some mini-marshmallows.

Yes, the mini-marshmallows will be a real motivator.

You can also use white pom poms, which are much more expensive than mini-marshmallows but are also much less tempting. 

This printable has twenty colorful cups of hot chocolate, labeled 1-20.  These are good for my Two, because he needs a lot of work with one-to-one correspondence. After he counts items to three, he starts losing count.  So we’ll keep doing more of this kind of thing until he has it down!

For my Four, this is just a quick fun thing for him to do.  It’s below his ability level right now, which is why you’ll find more challenging activities in my post Letter H Math.

children placing marshmallows on cards

I’ve had a request for the printable with the numbers on the cup instead of on the hot chocolate.  These are in the second part of the download.

hot chocolate numbered cards in color

I also had a request for black and white cups so kids can color them.  You’ll find these at the end of the download.

hot chocolate numbered cards in black and white

P.S. These were one of my first printables, created in MS Word.  Because of that, it was difficult to add new versions into the original file without leaving extra spaces after #9-10 and #19-20.  Thanks for understanding!

 

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64 Comments

  1. Laura

    June 11, 2020 at 12:26 pm

    These are just the best. I originally printed 1 – 10 without the faces. When I printed 11 – 14 I (accidentally) printed the ones with the faces – now my daughter only wants to count with the ones with the happy faces. She loves these!

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  2. Sidike Buayixiamu

    May 6, 2018 at 12:16 am

    Thank you! This is a great idea.

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    • Anna G

      May 6, 2018 at 7:56 am

      You’re very welcome, Sidike!

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  3. Diana

    May 13, 2017 at 4:03 am

    Thank you! This is a great idea, my kids will love them!!!

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  4. Jennifer Dawn

    December 9, 2015 at 11:47 am

    What a cute idea! I’m pinning it right now, and I can’t wait to try it with my kids. They love marshmallows.

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    • Anna Geiger

      December 10, 2015 at 4:43 pm

      I hope they have fun with it! 🙂

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  5. Michelle Parrinello

    January 7, 2015 at 7:34 pm

    Can you use cotton balls?

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    • Anna Geiger

      January 7, 2015 at 7:38 pm

      You can certainly use whatever you’d like – but try to find some small cotton balls, as the mats are not very large. I don’t think they’d work well for the larger numbered mats (11-20).

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  6. rita burkeen

    December 30, 2014 at 12:48 pm

    I love the hot chocolate counting mats. But I have not been able to print them. Is something wrong with your web site or is it just me?

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    • Anna Geiger

      December 30, 2014 at 1:53 pm

      Hi, Rita! Well I certainly hope it’s nothing wrong here… they did print for me. Did you check my troubleshooting page? https://www.themeasuredmom.com/how-to-download-free-files/ The #1 thing to try, if you haven’t, is to download to your computer and open from there to print. Did you try that?

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      • rita burkeen

        December 30, 2014 at 5:33 pm

        Thanks Anna for your reply. I do have Internet Explorer. That could be the problem. Such a cute idea! Keep up your good work!

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        • Anna Geiger

          December 30, 2014 at 6:19 pm

          Google Chrome is easy to install and use… if you decide to install it I’d love to know if you’re able to print them. 🙂

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          • Jocelyne Bridle

            July 25, 2015 at 10:16 pm

            What great ideas! I’ve seen this activity used with cotton balls, as well, so we don’t have to worry about little nibblers. Although, the marshmallows are part of the fun!

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  7. Chris

    December 30, 2014 at 10:04 am

    I am a preschool teacher (former homeschooler) and love your printables! I place them on a Montessori-inspired shelf–kids get a workrug and do them as independent activities.
    I’m going to use this one, though, as a math/arts activity. We are going to print with mini-marshmallows dipped in white paint. Good fine motor, too!
    Thanks for the ideas!
    Oh–and wanted to tell you the colored cups page 9 (where the 9 and 10 cups are) is not printing correctly–the 1 and 0 are smooshed together on the 10 cup. I’m not sure what the problem is.

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    • Anna Geiger

      December 30, 2014 at 1:53 pm

      Hmmm… It printed just fine for me, Chris. Did you check my troubleshooting page? https://www.themeasuredmom.com/how-to-download-free-files/

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  8. damaris

    July 11, 2014 at 6:51 pm

    emocionada por encontrar este material que compartiste, porque lo podre usar con los niños con los que trabajo, muchas gracias, esta hermoso!! =)

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    • Anna Geiger

      July 11, 2014 at 7:35 pm

      No puedo hablar en espanol, pero mi esposo puede decir algunas cosas en espanol. Muchas gracias para su nota!

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  9. shupekile

    February 9, 2014 at 7:29 am

    this is a very good way of teaching learners its so interesting, learners cant be bored at all.

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    • Anna Geiger

      February 11, 2014 at 11:58 am

      Thanks for checking it out!

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  10. samantha

    January 22, 2014 at 5:04 pm

    do you have these from 10 to 20? or something like this?
    love this idea and thank you so much for sharing
    Samantha

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    • Anna Geiger

      January 22, 2014 at 5:17 pm

      Hi Samantha,

      That would be easy to make and I’ll see how I feel in the next couple of days. I am 8 days overdue with our fifth baby and things are up in the air right now… and it’s hard to sit at the computer. If I don’t get to it in the next few days, I will probably get to it in the next few weeks.

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  11. Amber Davis

    January 4, 2014 at 5:22 pm

    Would be cute to use the white paint daubers too, maybe make a winter number book out of it.

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    • Anna Geiger

      January 12, 2014 at 8:03 pm

      I like that idea, Amber, and have been tossing around in my head how to make it a winter number book after reading your comment. But it seems that white paint daubers aren’t so common – I don’t see them in the do a dot marker sets, and it wouldn’t show up on white paper anyway. Hmmm…. any other suggestions?

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      • Valerie

        April 1, 2014 at 9:00 am

        Dip fingertip in white paint; have child make correct # of marshmallows using their own fingerprints! Laminate mats for easy wipe-off so they can be re-used!

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    • Karena

      December 31, 2019 at 1:22 pm

      Great idea!

      Reply to this comment
  12. Amy @ No Greater Honors

    November 19, 2013 at 7:28 pm

    I love these! I was already thinking that I would have to do poms, too, not necessarily because marshmallows wouldn’t be fun, but seriously – my kiddos would probably eat as many as they counted out! 🙂

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    • Anna Geiger

      November 23, 2013 at 2:44 pm

      I think our kids have something in common 🙂 Thanks for checking it out, Amy!

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    • Amy

      November 14, 2014 at 7:25 pm

      I’m going to have my kids use a hole punch to punch out the correct number of “marshmallows”. Good fine motor to go along with counting. Thanks for sharing!

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    • sydney howard

      December 17, 2019 at 1:42 pm

      I am going to use big marshmellows to represent 10s and little ones to represent ones and try to do numbers this way to 100. Could you add some that are higher than 20? and suggest that idea if interested 🙂
      Thanks Sydney

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      • Anna G

        December 17, 2019 at 2:20 pm

        Great idea, Sydney! I’m sorry that I don’t have time to alter this freebie right now. 🙂

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