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Missing Number on Number Line Clip Sticks Math Activity

April 20, 2021
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by Nadia

This Missing Numbers activity is such a fun, hands-on math activity for preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten students to work on number skills and fine motor skills too! This re-usable missing number on number line uses craft stick or paint sticks with clothespins to make practicing what number comes next. This number line activities is perfect for preschool math or kindergarten math. Plus you can adapt this preschool number games idea to the age and skills of your child/ren.

This Missing Numbers activity is such a fun, hands-on math activity for preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten students to work on number skills and fine motor skills too! This re-usable missing number on number line uses craft stick or paint sticks with clothespins to make practicing what number comes next. This number line activities is perfect for preschool math or kindergarten math. Plus you can adapt this preschool number games idea to the age and skills of your child/ren.

Missing Number on Number Line

This Missing Number on a Number Line is such a fun, hands on counting activity for young learners. This Missing number activity can be used for counting on or skip counting practice. Fine motor skills are also developed with the opening and closing of the peg. This preschool number games is perfect for preschoolers, toddlers, and kindergartners too!
number line math activities supplies include craft sticks or pain sticks and clothes pins

Preschool number games

To make these number clip sticks, you will need:

  • Craft sticks, the thick kind
  • Wooden pegs/clothespins
  • Markers
write numbers on craft sticks or paint sticks and clothes pin with sharpies

Number line activities

Simply write numbers on the sticks, you can use both sides. Number the pegs, use both sides if you need too. The first set I made was for numbers 0-10. (I used two different colors, you can use as many colors and numbers as you desire.) I left out numbers, leaving enough space for the peg number to clip into place.

skip counting activity with craft sticks and clothes pins

Number Clip

The next set was made for skip counting in 2’s and 10’s. You can make how many ever sets you need. The possibilities are endless! Place these sticks into a small pencil case or ziplock bag and you have a busy bag activity to take along on long rides or for keeping kids occupied when waiting at the doctors office etc.

More fun ways to practice skip counting:

Number Lines missing numbers clip sticks

Missing number games

A few sticks and pegs and you have a fun, frugal Interactive Number Line to practice counting skills at home or in the class!

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Free printable kindergarten worksheets

With so worksheet for kindergarten to look through, I want to make sure you find some of our most popular printable kindergarten worksheets. So start scrolling and enjoy!


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Kindergarten Book List 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. A great way to help your child master numbers 1 to 100 and number patterns is by playing a 100 chart games. This FUN Hundreds Chart Battleship is a free printable, hands-on hundreds chart activity that helps your pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, and 2nd grade students gain fluency counting and recognizing patters. Use this number chart to 100 activity at home or in the classroom. Simply print 100s chart and you are ready to play and learn with this hundreds chart games. Your kid are going to BEG to practice math with this outrageously FUN subtraction activity for kindergarten, preschool, pre-k, and first graders. Children will practice subtraction within 10 using playdough and our free printable playdough mats. This subtraction smash turns the chore of teaching subtraction into a fun math game for kids! Simply print pdf file with subtraction games for kids and you are ready to play and learn!

Worksheets for kindergarten

FREE Crack the Code Printables - CVC Words Make reading and spelling fun with these free printable Crack the Code Printables where pre k, kindergarten, and grade 1 students will practice listening for beginning sounds to solve the case! Crayon CVC WOrds Activity FREE-Printable-CVC-Word-Puzzles-Activity-for-Kindergarten-595xh These word family sliders are a fun way for Preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, and first grade students to work on their fine motor skills while gaining confidence reading. Practice reading kindergarten word famlies with this set of 20 word family printables! Each one has a different theme and words on a different word family for kids! Simply print word family worksheets pdf file to print in color or blackline and have fun with this engaging word family activity.

Kindergarten Phonics

Make teaching kids about weather fun and EASY with this free weather unit. These Weather Worksheets help kids explore a variety of weather topics as well as some weather themed worksheet for early math and literacy too. Use these free weather printables as preschool, 1st grade, 2nd, grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade and kindergarten weather worksheets. Simply print pdf file with weather worksheets for kids and you are ready to learn! This fun hands-on human body for kids activity is such a fun way to learn about our amazing bodies! These free printable Human Body Playdough Mats are a fun way for kids of all ages to learn about what is inside our body. Children will make a play doh human body with these playdough mats to learn about our  bones, skeletal system, muscles, organs, play doh digestive system, and more! Use these playdough mats as part of a study of the human body for kids study with toddler, preschool, pre k, kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, and 3rd grade students. Kids will love that they can add the body parts to the free playdough mats making it a truly hands on science activity. this outrageously FUN human body preschool project using free printables allows kids to learn about what is inside my body https://123homeschool4me.com/where-do-i-live_79/

Kindergarten Activities

Plus don’t miss our sister site – Kindergarten Worksheets and Games .  This site containes all FREE printables and is dedicated soley to Kindergartners! Looking for more fun, creative ways you can begin your free homeschool? We have over 1,000,000 pages of FREE Printable Worksheets including resources for: pre k worksheets, kindergarten worksheets, 1st grade worksheets, 2nd grade worksheets, 3rd grade worksheets, 4th grade worksheets, 5th grade worksheets, 6th grade worksheets, and more. Plus see our history lessons for kids, hands-on countries for kids, printable math games, language arts worksheets, sight word worksheets, free alphabet printables, and cvc word activities for kids of all ages! And our hugely popular Pipe Cleaner constellation activities

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Nadia

Nadia is South African mom to two littlies, a former preschool teacher and currently working as a reading therapist at a remedial school. She blogs over at teach-me-mommy.com about easy and playful activities inspiring you to be your child's first teacher.

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