Fact Family Craft

About this resource

A fact family craft that builds a paper house. The roof holds the two parts, the door holds the whole, and the four windows hold the four related facts: two addition facts and two subtraction facts. Children cut 8 pieces, glue 7 of them in the house and keep one left over, then check that the roof numbers add up to the door number. Six houses are included: 3 with sums within 10 and 3 with sums within 20. A triangle flip version, write-your-own houses, blank pieces and bulletin board labels are in the same file. Made for grades 1 and 2 and special education classrooms (the sums within 10 also suit kindergarten). Print and go: you only need crayons, scissors and glue.

How The House Works

Each house has a tile page and a glue page. The tile page holds 8 pieces, each 1.8 by 1.65 inches, edge to edge in a strip so every cut is one straight line: 2 roof numbers, the door number, 4 window facts and 1 spare fact from a different house. The glue page is the empty house with every slot exactly one piece big and a ghost clue in each (blue square = part, red circle = whole, and the shapes of the fact). The pieces are printed in a mixed order, and a picture of the finished house sits on every tile page. Every student page has a "My name" line and one short instruction with a picture.

What'S Inside

• Start Here: how the house works, the versions by readiness and a five-day plan
• How to make it: four steps with a picture for each
• Meet the house: a labeled house and a place to write the parts and the whole
• A math words page: 6 words (part, whole, add, subtract, fact, family) to trace and write on handwriting lines
• 6 paper houses, each with a tile page and a glue page: sums within 10 (houses 1 to 3) and sums within 20 (houses 4 to 6)
• Cut-out houses: 6 finished house cards (one for each house in the set) to color, cut and pin on a board
• 2 write-your-own houses (sums within 10 and within 20) with a bank of 4 number families each, and a page of 8 blank pieces to write on
• Triangle flip: 8 triangle cards to cut, a "cover one corner" example, and 2 glue-and-write pages (within 10 and within 20) with room for the 4 facts of each card
• Bulletin board labels: 6 cards to cut and pin above the finished houses
• A "Who Did What This Week" class data page with an answer key for every page (the first row is an invented example)
• A family letter to send home
• A credits page (font and art license)

28 pages in all, 23 of them for students.

VERSIONS BY READINESS (the small circle, square or triangle beside the name line only marks the page)

• Circle: glue houses with sums within 10
• Square: glue houses with sums within 20
• Triangle: write the numbers and facts yourself (write-your-own houses, blank pieces, triangle flip)

Cutting Built For Small Hands

Every cutting page has big pieces lined up edge to edge: 1.8 by 1.65 inches for the house pieces, 1.8 inches square for the triangle cards, 3.5 by 2.97 inches for the cut-out house cards and 3.5 by 3.15 inches for the labels. 76 pieces to cut in all (6 houses of 8 pieces, 6 cut-out house cards, 8 blank pieces, 8 triangle cards and 6 labels). Card stock suits the glue pages.

Who This Is For

Grade 1 and 2 classrooms, self-contained special education classrooms, math centers, bulletin boards, and paraprofessionals who want a fact family craft with the sums already chosen, ready to print.

What This Is, And What It Is Not

A printable PDF (print and cut). The houses are paper puzzles to cut and glue. It is not Google Slides, Docs or PowerPoint, and it has no fillable fields. It is a fact family craft, not a math program: it gives no guidance for any child and makes no claim about any student's age or rate of progress.