Six framed boxes by default, each holding a scattered group of one Christmas picture and an empty circle in the corner for the number. A different picture in every box, taken from the site's Christmas line art: wreaths, presents, snowmen, stars, stockings, sleighs and the rest. Count what is in the box, write the number in the circle.
How many and how high
The Boxes control sets six, eight or nine boxes on the page. Six gives the largest pictures and the most room, which matters for a child who counts by touching each one. Nine fills the sheet and is the version to use when counting is secure and the sheet is about speed.
The Count to control caps the group size at five, ten or twelve. Five is for a child who can still see a small group at a glance without counting it. Ten and twelve force an actual count, because no one recognises eleven snowmen without counting them.
Scattered, not lined up
The pictures inside each box are placed loosely rather than in a neat row. That is deliberate. A row can be counted by running a finger along it; a scattered group has to be organised, and the moment a child starts working left to right or top to bottom through a mess is the moment counting becomes reliable.
A different picture is used in every box, so a child cannot carry a count across from the box before. Each box is drawn from the site's library of Christmas line art, which prints cleanly in black and white and can be coloured in afterwards.
Checking the work
The answer sheet is the second page: the same boxes with the right number written into each circle in red. With six boxes it takes a few seconds to mark a sheet against it.
Switch Answer sheet to Sheet only when you are printing a stack. The worksheet then downloads as a single page.
Questions
- How many counting boxes are on the sheet?
- Six by default. The Boxes control above the paper changes it to eight or nine, which makes the boxes and the pictures inside them smaller but puts more counting on one page.
- What numbers do the Christmas counting worksheets go up to?
- Five, ten or twelve, set by the Count to control. The group in each box never goes above the cap you choose, so a sheet set to five never asks a child to count six.
- Is there an answer sheet?
- Yes. The second page repeats the boxes with the correct number written in each circle in red, so a sheet can be marked at a glance rather than recounted.
- Do the pictures change between sheets?
- Yes. The pictures, the counts and where they sit inside each box are all redrawn when the page loads and when Regenerate is pressed, so the same settings give a different sheet each time.