1st, 2nd & 3rd Grade Logic Puzzles - Fall Theme Critical Thinking Activities

Are you trying to help your 1st, 2nd and 3rd students develop critical thinking in a fun and engaging way? Children love puzzles and these back-to-school, fall theme logic puzzles provide opportunities for students to develop skills in logical thinking, problem-solving, making inferences, drawing conclusions, recognizing similarities and differences, and comparing and contrasting while reinforcing both reading and math skills. These fall theme critical thinking activities are the perfect addition to your lessons!

All of the puzzles include different levels of difficulty and complexity to allow you to differentiate according to the needs of the students in your classroom. These puzzles can be used as morning work, in a center, as a whole group activity, or for independent work for early finishers.

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• 9- 3X3 Matrix Logic Puzzles
• 15- 4X4 Matrix Logic Puzzles
• 6- 3X3 Magic Square Puzzles (Apple Theme)
• 6 Sudoku Picture Puzzles  (Fall Leaf Theme)
• Yes/No cards for logic puzzles
• Picture cards for Sudoku puzzles
• Answer keys
• Sheets to record responses

I like to project the color puzzles on the whiteboard and solve them together as a class as a morning warm-up. I also like to laminate them and put them in sheet protectors and use them in a center. I use the black and white copies and pass them out so that everyone in the class has a working copy or if I want students to work independently.

Did you know Benjamin Franklin loved to solve Magic Squares? So will your students as they solve 6 puzzles available in color and b/w. For beginners, use the recording sheets that have some numbers filled in, but for an extra challenge, give the students blank recording sheets.

The Sudoku leaf puzzlers are perfect for those visual spatial learners in your classroom.  Do you have children who have difficulty reading? They can still develop those deductive thinking and logical reasoning skills with these 6 leaf puzzlers which are available in color or black and white!

TIPS:

• Don't want to bother with making copies?  Slip these puzzles into sheet protectors and give students wipe off makers.  They can record their answers on the recording sheets.
• When printing the answer sheets for the individual matrix puzzles, I like to print them out two to a page to save ink and paper!
• All the puzzles have recording sheets and answer keys and are available in both color and black and white!

See What Other Teachers Are Saying…

• This is a great resource to start my younger students with logic puzzles! they learned the concept quickly and were able to complete the critical thinking independently! 
• I digitize these in Google Slides for distance learning and my students just love them! Great for the kids who like more challenge in math.
• Logic puzzles are so challenging and fun! Thank you for the great BOY resource!

Need more engaging vocabulary activities for your classroom? Check these out!:

• Spring Matrix Logic Puzzles for Grades 1-3.
• Christmas Logic Puzzles for Math and Literacy Skills.
• Beginning Logic Puzzles for Winter Grades 1-3.
• St. Patrick’s Day Beginning Logic Puzzles for Grades 1-3

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