Valentine Graphing

For Valentine's Day we graphed candy hearts. The kids really seemed to enjoy this activity. I gave each child a box of hearts. These are completely random so no one had the same results on their graphs!

The first step was to dump the hearts out and organize them by colors.

After sorting, they counted each color and colored in the blocks above the colored heart. For ease of knowing which blocks to color, I taught them how to count the blocks by putting a dot in each one of the color they are to color it in with. 

This worked great and helped them see how far up they needed to color.

The kids did a great job! Even the ones who have a hard time with math skills found this activity to be fun and easy to understand. And in the end they got to take the box of hearts home to eat. So it ends with an even better reward!