Since my Thanksgiving math Pop Art coloring sheets were helpful to teachers I made them again for the Holidays and winter. I intend to make them for all major holidays and roll out an entire collection of them next summer. I use these in my room for when students finish their art projects early. Teachers comment on how useful they are for reviewing math facts in the classroom while allowing students a chance to color and use art supplies. It’s easy art integration for teachers and fun for the kids. I am responsible for a district art show this month so these have been very handy as students finish their art project for the show and need something to work on.
The final sheets are great to display… I love how colorful they are. You can see these math sheets in my TPT store HERE.
This post has been updated to include my winter/holiday sheets. See the orignal post from last month…
I like to use the arts to help my students with their academic success as often as I can in my art class. I feel like I’m contributing to my school community this way. We read, write and do math whenever it’s applicable. For a long time I’ve wanted to make my interactive coloring sheets into math coloring sheets, but one fun idea after the next kept bumping the math sheets down the “to-do” list. Last month, finally, I did it! I used them with my students and they loved them. I couldn’t believe when I told them we were going to do math with our art that they actually cheered! (I sort of snickered and thought to myself “did they really just cheer when I told them we were going to do math” –go me– or go classroom teachers I should say!). 
As my students were working on these Thanksgiving math coloring sheets I was listening to them talk about the patterns that were being created and also working out the math problems at a slow rumble of chatter–it was in one word–AWESOME! The fun part about these sheets is that there are so many varieties of math-fact review available. I created these sheets for addition up to 20, subtraction from as high as 25, and then multiplication and division to review all the times tables. I was able to challenge each child on the level they needed. I was surprised how many students chose division to jump right in. When I created these beautiful Thanksgiving images with my younger students (2nd and 3rd grade) they got to pick between addition and subtraction and most chose the challenge–subtraction! 
The sheets are simple yet powerful. Students solve the math problems in each shape and then color it according to a grid that is located at the top of the page. For example if the answer is 20, the color might be red, and so on. This really allowed for processing time and while students were coloring they were thinking about math (not talking about video games and gossipin’ about who likes who–hallelujah). Some classes used crayons and some used colored pencils. Oh, and if you kind of hate using colored pencils because of all the pencil sharpener “casualties,” check out this post to see how I use them in my room to save my pencil sharpeners (and sanity!). Markers would look great too if you have nice fresh juicy ones–kids hate using dried up old markers…can you blame them?
Of course my job is never fully complete until I’ve hung up the kids work for all to see. I made a bulletin board display in my room and also hung some up outside in the hallway. Kids always know their work when they see it and it makes me proud to see them so happy about their art!
If you’d like to try these sheets with your students they are available in my TPT store HERE.
Thank you for reading and for making art with your students!
