Butterfly Missing Addend Clip Card Activity

Practice missing addends with this fun find the missing addend clip cards for kindergarten and first grade students! This hands-on addition activity is such a fun way for kids to practice adding while having fun with butterfly printables for your spring theme. Simply print missing addends game printable and you are ready to play and learn with this fun missing addends game!

Missing Addends

It is almost that time of year again. The time of year when the sun starts warming the cold ground. Trees and flowers begin to bloom, and the world of nature emerges around us. It is finally time to venture outside and enjoy the beauty. And today, I have a fun spring activity to get children working on missing addends. These adorable butterfly missing addend activities use no prep clip-cards to make practicing addition fun for kindergartners and grade 1 students. This missing addend game is perfect for parents, teachers, and homeschoolers to use as a spring activity for kids!

Missing Addend Worksheets

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Find the Missing Addend

There are two different missing addend practice activities in this missing addends printable:

The first is the easy, no mess way.

1. First, print off the cards on card stock paper and cut them out.
2. You can laminate them for extra durability.
3. Finally, gather up some clothes pins and markers and you are ready to go!

The second way is to add some fine motor skills to this activity. Instead of providing markers, use a hole punch and yellow paper to make lots of yellow dots. (See the messy part. If your kiddos are anything like mine, those dots will end up on the floor.) Then grab some glue sticks or squeezable glue for an extra hand strengthening exercise. You can also do this with yellow playdough balls too!

Addition Activity

Now comes the addition games! Each clip card has a picture of a butterfly with dots on it. Under the picture is a number sentence with a missing addend. And we want our little ones to figure out that missing addend. And it is quite simple.

The first number in the number sentence is how many dots are already on the butterfly. Then we have the missing addend, and finally what the number sentence equals. That sum is very important. That tells us our next step. We want to add dots to the butterfly until we have the same amount of dots as the sum.

Addition games for kindergarten

With this card, there are two dots already on the butterfly, and we want to get to four. So I add two dots with my marker. The number of dots I added is the missing addend. 2 + 2 = 4

Math addition games

Now, I’ll try this one using my glue and precut holes. I started with five dots, but I need to get to seven. I can count while I add dots.

Six!

Seven!

I glued on two dots, so that is my missing addend. 5 + 2 = 7

This hands-on approach is a great way for children to practice skills like counting on and taking the beginning steps to understanding algebra.

 

Butterfly Activities for Kids

Looking for more fun butterfly activities, butterfly crafts, and butterfly printables to add to your day or butterfly theme? Try these:

• Butterfly Math – addition mats for pre-k and kindergarteners
• Number Sense butterfly activities for preschoolers
• Free printable Butterfly missing addend game for Kindergarten
• Count to 10 Butterfly Math Ten Frame Punch Cards
• Butterfly Addition Puzzles
• Kindergarten Butterfly Addition and Subtraction Worksheets
• Free Counting Butterflies Worksheets

 

Butterfly Printables

• FREE Printable Butterfly Life Cycle Worksheets
• Butterfly Life Cycle Worksheet Pack for kids
• Life Cycle of a Butterfly Worksheet and Observation Book
• B is for Butterfly activities for toddler and preschoolers
• Butterfly Puzzles Printable Rhyming Games
• Free printable Butterfly Life Cycle Printables 

 

Butterfly Crafts

Looking for more fun butterfly activities, butterfly crafts, and butterfly printables to add to your day or butterfly theme? Try these:

• Try this crafty science project to make stunning chromatography butterflies
• Tissue Paper Butterfly Craft for Kids
• 29 Pretty Butterfly Crafts for Kids
• Shaving Cream Butterfly Craft
• Butterfly Life Cycle Crafts w/ Free Printables

 

Butterfly Crafts for Preschoolers

• Cute Bowtie Pasta Butterfly Craft for Kids
• Pasta Butterfly Crafts for Kids
• Butterfly Suncatcher Craft
• Simple Toilet Paper Roll Butterfly Craft for Kids
• Pop-up Butterfly Craft
• Pasta butterfly craft

Missing addends game printable