Gingerbread Clip Cards

My students love using clip cards at math stations!  They’re an engaging way to help students with one-to-one counting, number recognition, subitizing and fine motor skills.

These gingerbread clip cards are a super sweet way to practice counting sets 0-20. Snag your activity and then hop over and grab our Number Formation Pack in our shop!

Getting Ready

To prep this activity, I first printed the clip cards on white cardstock to give them extra durability.

Then I used my paper trimmer to cut apart the cards.

To make the set self-checking, I grabbed some clothespins and worked my way through the pile, clipping the correct answers.

Then I flipped each card face down on the table and marked the answer with a small red circle on the back so students could easily check their answers.

I unclipped the clothespins and placed them in a basket next to the stack of cards. We were reading for some counting fun!

Gingerbread Clip Cards

I wanted my students to warm up with the 1-10 cards first, so I placed them at the top of the stack.

The first student in my small group picked up a gingerbread card and pointed to each gingerbread cookie as he counted, “One, two, three, four, five.”

Then he used a clothespin to clip the number 5 on the card.  

After some practice, the group was ready for a stretch, so I introduced the teen cards.

Another child counted 10 gingerbread cookies on the first cookie pan and 7 gingerbread cookies on the second cookie pan. She used her subitizing skills to instantly recognize that 10 and 7 more was 17 and used a clothespin to clip the number 17 on the card.

Students continued the same process of choosing a clip card, counting the gingerbread cookies and clipping the number that matched the set until they worked through all of the cards.

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