Math Graphing Activity for Kids! This beginner graphing activity teaches children how to use a graph in a delicious way – CANDY! Remarkably, my preschoolers did NOT eat theirs. Amazing! Of course, I told them not to but no one even sneaked any. What a good bunch of kiddos I have in my classroom…

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M&M Math & Graphing For Kids

Supplies
White cardstock
Color printer
M&M’s milk chocolate candies
Small paper cups
Plastic wrap

I pre-labeled each cup with the child’s name.
The plastic wrap is to seal it up for them to take their candy home.

M&M Graphing Lesson For Preschoolers

• Print a copy of the graph in color on white card stock- one for each child.
• Pour some M&M’s in a small paper cup – one cup per child.
• Sit your students down at a table with their graph and candies.
• Explain to them that they should sort through their candies and place a line of candies on the same bar of the color they are holding. i.e. green M&M’s go on the green line, red on red and so forth.
• Have them count how many greens, how many blues, how many reds.

So, your little ones just got a “taste” (pardon the pun) of how to use and read a graph plus a counting exercise – with a snack afterward!

What other ways can you think of to use this graphing activity with young children?

I told you that I love M&M’s right? Well, when I looked into their history I found it so fascinating that I wrote about it!

This year I made snowman cookies for a movie night party.
M&M’s were the
buttons for the snowman tummies!

Snowman Cookie Recipe

Enjoy!