Halloween Candy Sorting & Graphing - Free Printable Math Activity

The candy bucket hits the floor and it's chaos. Here's how you turn that pile into twenty minutes of actual math.

The Halloween Candy Sorting & Graphing printable gives kids two pages: one to sort their haul by wrapper color, one to graph what they found. They do the counting. You drink your coffee.

What's inside

• Page 1 - Sorting mat. Nine labelled color boxes - red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, black, brown and white - plus a running total at the bottom. Sort a handful at a time.
• Page 2 - Graphing grid. Color one box for every candy counted, then answer which color they had the most of, the least of, and how many altogether.

Why parents and teachers love it

• It uses the candy that's already there. No prep and no supplies beyond crayons - print it and tip the bucket out.
• It's real math in disguise. Sorting by attribute, one-to-one counting, building a bar graph, comparing quantities. They think they're playing with candy.
• It buys you time on November 1st. The morning after trick-or-treating is long. This fills a good chunk of it.
• One sheet, several ages. A three-year-old sorts. A six-year-old graphs. An eight-year-old totals and compares.

The details

• 2 printable pages, US Letter (8.5 x 11)
• Instant digital download - nothing ships
• Ages 3-8
• Print as many copies as you like for your own home or classroom
• Personal and single-classroom use