Peanut Butter and Jelly Place Value Activities to Thousands

Build a Peanut Butter & Jelly Sandwich in this fun, hands-on place value activities. In these place value games children will practice buiding numbers with the ones, tens, hundreds, and thousands place value. Add this cute place value math games to your upcoming place value lessons  for a free math printable3rd grade, 4th grade, and 5th grade students will be excited to play. Simply print pdf file with place value game printable and you are ready to have fun with this place value activity!

Place Value Activities

For some reason my daughter just couldn’t seem to figure out the concept of place values. So I figured I could make a fun, hands on place value activities to help her not only figure it out, but master the concept. This Place Value Game was a huge hit in our house! My daughter loved the idea of bulding sandwiches and the concept suddenly clicked. Use this place value game online in your place value lesson plans 3rd grade to make learning FUN. This place value to thousands is perfect for grade 3, grade 4, and grade 5 students. Whether you are a parent, homeschooler or classroom teacher looking to add to math center, a parent looking for extra place value exercises or a peanut butter and jelly theme for National PBJ day on April 2nd or back to school activities. Plus this is great for reinforcing a concept from your child’s homeschool math curriculum, you will love this fun math activity!

Place value Printable

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

Place value Games

Now print the peanut butter and jelly math in color. Then cut out the label and directions manila folder cover. This makes an easy way to store the activity and an easy reminder of how to play. I recommend you laminate all other pages for durability.

Note: There are two sets. You are probably fine just using sets A or B – it will give you 8 place value sandwiches to make. But in case your child really enjoys the activity / wants extra practice or you have multiple students completing the activity, you can grab them both.

Place Value Lessons

Start out by lining up the place value mats.

• Bread – thousands place
• Grape Jam – hundreds place
• Peanut Butter – tens place
• Bread (smaller piece) – ones place

This helps children to start to visualize how place value works. We just love this place value games 2nd grade or even place value games 4th grade because you can decide to do simpler numbers or larger numbers in the thousands – the choice is yours!

Place Value Math Games

Now, to set-up you place value games for kids, put the coordinating ingredient cards to make your sandwiches on the correct place value mat.

Place Value Activity

Kids will draw a sandwich card. This is the total value of the sandwich. Now to make the sandwiches . . .

Place Value Games Online

Kids will now make their sandwiches by putting the numbers in their correct place values:

• thousands bread followed by a knife to “add” more layers
• grape jam hundreds followed by a knife to “add” more layers
• peanut butter tens followed by a knife to “add” more layers
• small piece of bread ones

Ones tens hundreds thousands

As they complete the place value activites – children will be able to visually see how the numbers stack up and ensure that the place values sandwich was made correctly.

Place Value Exercises

My daughter thought this activity was tons of fun. Plus she quickly figured out what place values were and this translated into her math curriculum.

Peanut Butter and Jelly Activity

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Teaching Place Value

Place Value PB & J Math Activity

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