Help the kitten get to the yarn
Twenty problems on a thread, and three or four colors in the key. The answers are close together — 7, 8, 9 — so an answer that is a little off lands on the wrong color, and the finished trail shows it.
Solve it, find the color, color the oval.
A color-by-sum worksheet generator, printable as a PDF. A thread winds back and forth across the page from a kitten to a ball of yarn, with twenty ovals strung along it, each holding an addition or subtraction problem. A key at the top gives each answer a color. The child solves every problem and colors the oval, all the way to the yarn. Pick problems within 10, within 20, or two-digit within 100. Every answer in the key comes up at least three times, no problem repeats, and the answer key colors the whole trail.
1 token a sheet, fewer in batches.
US Letter PDF — prints on any home printer.
Start
At the kitten, with the first oval on the thread.
Solve
The problem, and find the answer in the key.
Color
The oval that color, and follow the thread to the next one.
Problems
Every answer is one of three or four close numbers, each with its own color, so an answer that is a little off lands on the wrong color.
Your worksheet lands here — download, print, or email it.