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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

    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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    • Anna Geiger

      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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  7. Chris

    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

      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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  5. […] 1. Hot Cocoa/Marshmallow Math. These are counting mats that look like mugs of cocoa, but you get to count with marshmallows! I already printed this out and laminated it before the break. (Present Alison would like to thank past Alison for this). I wish that I could say that I was preparing for January, but really I was going to use this for our pajama party day… but the marshmallows I brought in were weird and sticky. Anyway, it’s a fun way to get back into the practice of counting, and an easy way to assess math skills! https://www.themeasuredmom.com/marshmallow-math/ […]

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  25. […] Hot Chocolate Mats: I LOVED these. They are seriously so adorable. They include an entire set of these adorably designed Hot Chocolate Mugs with these cute little faces on them. Each of them has a number on it. You put them in the bag along with a bunch of white or multi-colored small sized pom-poms. The idea is that they pick a card and then have to add the number of “marshmallows” that are listed on the mug. The download includes a set in color and black and white so you can decide how you want to print them. These are GREAT for teaching numbers and even math 🙂 […]

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