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March 3, 2023
Butterfly Missing Addend Clip Card Activity

Butterfly Missing Addend Clip Card Activity

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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!

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

Start by scrolling to the bottom of the post, under the terms of use, and click on the text link that says >> _____ <<. The pdf file will open in a new window for you to save the freebie and print the template.

Use clothespins to clip the correct answer on these butterfly math cards

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!

spring math game kindergarten and first grade

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.

Free math game for practicing addition within 10

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

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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 activity  FREE Butterfly Missing Addend - these free printable math clip cards are a fun addition practice activity for kindergarten and first grade kids. #mathgames #addition #kindergarten free printable butterfly addition puzzles for kids Looking for some fun ways to help students practice addition and subtraction? Students will love these kindergarten addition and subtraction worksheets filled with fun butterfly addition to make learning fun with a butterfly theme for spring! Use these cute butterfly worksheets to work on subtraction for kindergarten and addition for kindergarten with super cute, hands-on practice for Kindergarteners. Simply print pdf file with spring worksheets for kindergarten to play and learn with a butterfly activity for kindergarten.

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:

If you are looking for a fun, simple way for kids to learn about the life cycle of a butterfly, then you will love these cute butterfly life cycle worksheets. These life cycle of a butterfly printables are perfect for preschool, pre-k, kindergarten first grade, 2nd grade, and 3rd graders. These butterfly worksheets are filled with not only fun information about butterfly life cycle, but no-prep activities for tracing, alphabet matching, counting, butterfly science vocabulary, cut and paste life cycle worksheet, letter puzzles, letter tracing, find the letter, label the butterfly and more! Simply print pdf file with life cycle of butterfly worksheet for kindergarten.  butterfly life cycle worksheets life cycle of a butterfly FREE Butterfly Rhyming Games - this is such a fun spring literacy game to work on rhyming with preschool, kindergarten, and first graders. #rhyming #kindergarten #educationalspring

Butterfly Printables

This beautiful butterfly craft for kids helpds kids explore science by making stunning chromatography butterflies! This easy butterfly craft is fun for preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, and 4th graders. Besides creating a fun butterfly craft idea, you will learn about chromatography for kids. This is a fun coffee fitler craft, spring science experiment or summer activity for kids! Fun to make Tissue Paper Butterfly Craft This pretty butterfly craft is as fun to make as it is beautiful! This shaving cream craft is surprisingly SIMPLE to make, but with incredibly complex colors in the marbling of painting with shaving cream. Toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, and up will want to make this butterfly craft for kids! So add this shaving cream art project to your bucket list of summer crafts for kids! Learn about the life cycle of a butterfly with this super cute, simple Butterfly Life Cycle Craft. In spring we start to see butterflies appear and the amazing metamorphosis that happens as they go from caterpillar to chryssalis to butterfly is super cool. Use this life cycle of a butterfly craft ideas for toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, and first grade students to learn about these amazing insects! Simply print pdf file with butterfly life cycle printable and you are ready to play and learn about butterflies for kids!.

Butterfly Crafts

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

Looking for fun pasta crafts to make with leftover dyed pasta? This super pretty mosaic pasta project allows kids to create beautiful pasta pictures by pressing different colored noodles into clay.  This pasta art is such a fun, engaging craft for kids of all ages from toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, and 3rd graders too. Spring is here and that means that the butterflies have returned to delight both young and old with their graceful flight and beautiful wings. Celebrate these beautiful animlas with a fun butterfly craft for kids. This simple butterfly art project uses bowtie pasta to make the butterflies. This pasta craft for preschoolers, toddlers, and kindergartners is sure to be a hit!  Butterfly suncatcher pop up butterfly craft

Butterfly Crafts for Preschoolers

Turn practicing addition into a fun activity as children get to become detectives with these free printable Addition Crack the Code Worksheets. These are perfect for kindergarten and first grade students working on addition within 20. Super cute FREE gumball math practice for kindergarten, first grade, and more Kids will have fun practicing addition within 10 with this free printable math game - addition tic tac toe. This addition math game is a great way to reinforce and continue practicing addition skills to 10 and 20. We just love using educational math games for hands-on learning with kindergarten, first Grade, and 2nd Grade students!

Addition Practice

This is such a fun, hands on math game for kindergartners that helps achieve fluency while having FUN!

3000+ FREE First Grade Worksheets - kids will have fun learning and practicing 1st grade math, english, alphabet letters, sight words, cvc words, addition, subtraction, blends, digraphs, place value, rhyming, place value, history worksheets, science, worksheets and mroe with these free educational printables for grade 1. Perfect for teachers, parents, and homeschoolers #grade1 #1stgrade #firstgrade #firstgradeworksheets #homeschoolingforfree 100 Books for 1st Graders to Read on their own (arranged by reading level) - includes FREE printable book list to print and take to the library and use as book mark. lots of great choices of printable and books!!! Perfect for summer reading and year round first grade book list! #1stgrade #firstgrade #booklists Help kids learn about what is under their skin with this fun, interactive, and hands on human body project for kids from toddler, preschool, pre k, kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade, 5th grade, and 6th grade students. This can be a simple life size human body project or use our free printable templates to add bones of the body, organ templates, and more. This engaging science project is EASY and LOW PREP too. 

First Grade Printables

If you have a 1st grader and you are looking for more fun, hands on grade 1 worksheets, games and activities to make learning fun – you will love these resources!

FREE Telling Time Puzzles - super cute math game to help kindergarten and first grade students learn to tell time with a clock game for kids! #mathgames #kindergarten #kindergartenmath #1stgrade #grade1math Turn practicing addition into a fun activity as children get to become detectives with these free printable Addition Crack the Code Worksheets. These are perfect for kindergarten and first grade students working on addition within 20.

 

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Beth Gorden is the creative multi-tasking creator of 123 Homeschool 4 Me. As a busy homeschooling mother of six, she strives to create hands-on learning activities and worksheets that kids will love to make learning FUN! With over 20 years educating children, she has created over 1 million pages of printables to help teach kids alphabet, math, science, English grammar, history, and so much more! Beth is also the creator of 2 additional sites with even more educational activities and FREE printables – www.kindergartenworksheetsandgames.com and www.preschoolplayandlearn.com. Beth studied at the University of Northwestern where she got a double major to make her effective at teaching children while making education FUN!

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    Carolyn

    THANKS!!! you are the best and the kids love to play your games.

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      Beth Gorden

      So glad to hear!

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