Amazing April Activities | Printable Math Games, Puzzles, and More!

[Our April math activities are available for third, fourth, and fifth grade.]

They say April showers bring May flowers. I hope you’re ready to be showered with math goodies! From partner games to puzzles to cootie catchers, your students will enjoy learning while you save time planning. Students will review math facts, fraction equivalency, measurement, multi-step words problems, and more.

Shower your students with engaging math activities and watch them grow into eager learners!

Beginning with an April Fool’s Day activity, this month’s bundle of math activities has so much to offer your 3rd grade, 4th grade, and 5th grade students. Celebrate Easter with a Cootie Catcher Egg Hunt or Egg Basket Sorting Activity. Enjoy the spring weather with a measurement puzzle. Play partner games while practicing math skills. Solve mazes, riddles, and puzzles with a special Earth Day Tri-Fold activity booklet.

Let’s take a closer look at what April’s print and go math bundles include!

• April Fool’s Day Flowers
• Gum Ball Math Facts Game
• Showers & Flowers Game
• Spring Square Measurement Puzzle
• Egg Hunt Cootie Catchers
• Baby Animal Graphs/Line Plots
• Word Problem Eggs in a Basket
• Earth Day Tri-Folds

1. April Fool’s Day Flowers

Do you love a good April Fool’s Day joke? Me too! This activity is all about flowers attempting to fool you. For each equation, there are two flowers whose fractions will make the missing part of the equation true,  and one trying to play a trick. Students use what the have learned about fractions to identify the incorrect fractions.

Teacher-Tip for Early Finishers: Challenge students to make up their own problems on the back with two true answers and one false. Exchange papers with a partner and try to stump one another.

2. Gum Ball Math Facts Game

This quick and simple partner game is a great for early finishers, math centers, or to leave with a substitute teacher.Each player has their own gum ball machine. Students take turns rolling the dice, solving math problems, and coloring in the gum balls from their machine. The first player to color all of their gum balls is the winner.

3. Showers and Flowers Game

Inspired by Shoots and Ladders, this game is a bit different. One player represents the showers, racing from top to bottom. The other player represents the flowers, racing from the ground up. Players take turns rolling a die and solving the problems on their board. The first player to reach his or her finish line first is the winner.

4. Spring Squares Measurement Puzzle

Practice measurement skills in a fun and challenging way! In each puzzle, students arrange pieces by matching measurements. Sometimes it seems there may be more than one correct answer, but the puzzle is only complete when all of the pieces match together and can fit in the frame provided.

These puzzles are ideal for centers or to leave with a sub. Consider using this for an independent study packet too!

5. Egg Hunt Cootie Catcher

This is one ‘punny’ bunny search! First, students fill in the blanks to make fraction equations true. Then, they cut and fold to make a cootie catcher. When students play with a friend, they are on the hunt for a bunny and its egg. Along the way, they will meet lots of silly characters with puns that will bring chuckles, groans, or both.

6. Baby Animal Bar Graphs or Line Plots

3rd graders will work with scaled bar graphs where each bar represents a certain number of baby animals. 4th and 5th graders will work with line plots. All activities give students word problems to answer using the information presented in the bar graphs or line plots.

In the higher level for 4th and 5th grades, students use data from a table to make the line plots before answering questions.

7. Word Problem Eggs in a Basket

This activity is a low-stakes way to practice word problems. First students read the word problems. Lines are drawn from each word problem to its corresponding equation in a basket. Each of the equations uses the unknown as a letter variable to give students exposure to and practice with using variables in mathematical equations. Last, students solve the equations and sort eggs cut out from the bottom of the page into the correct baskets.

If you have students who are struggling, this is a great way to include students who might be reluctant or unsure how to begin solving a complex word problem.

Teacher-Tip: Follow up this activity with a discussion on how students chose the correct equation. For students who need a challenge, invite them to write a different equation that would produce the same answer.

8. Earth Day Tri-Fold

April 22 is Earth Day! Instead of 2 separate worksheets, it’s time to save paper with a 2-sided tri-fold packed with 6 different Earth Day mini-activities. First, students will make words from the letters found in “EARTH DAY,” followed by coloring, a word search, a maze, and more!

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