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Festive Activity Countdown
1 Dec 2025
With the build up to Christmas and the holidays in full swing, we've picked out some of our favourite wintry Family Maths Toolkit activities to share with you.
Try a different activity for each week to start building up your childrens' number confidence, and hopefully a bit of festive cheer too.
Week 1 - Make a Snowflake
This is a great activity to try at the start of December so that your children can make decorations for the festive season. As well as being lovely to look at, and fun to do, this activity can be a secret lesson in symmetry and fractions.
Week 2 - Christmas Elves
Three elves want to swap items of clothing for as many days as they can whilst making different combinations.
This activity uses a fun visual story to help children to think about all the possibilities and develops problem solving skills.
Week 3 - Secret Christmas Tree
This activity helps practice using mathematical language to describe something.
You'll have to decorate your own tree based entirely on your child's description of theirs, then see if they match.
There's lots of scope for funny mistakes in this one, which is great because that's the best way to learn!
Week 4 - Plan a Party
What focuses the mind better on numbers than when you're planning fun ways to spend a budget?
It might be tempting to spend it all on sweets but imagining that this is a real party helps develop practical planning skills too.
More free activities
There are lots more activities for festivals around the year, as well as ideas to use any time in rain or shine on the Family Maths Toolkit
National Numeracy has now made all of our 230+ Family Maths Toolkit resources freely available.
To help us understand who is using them and how many children we're helping all you have to do is fill in a quick web form, then you can access them all at your leisure.
