Looking for inspiration to encourage your kids to count outside while they’re playing? Check out these great ideas! Count outside with these ideas! 1. One to one correspondence Number counting from Tutus & Tea Parties. A great precursor for learning to count, draw a circle for each number of objects needed so it’s managable for […]
10 Ways to Count with Board Games: Printable and DIY
Board games are a great way to engage children and encourage them to practice a learning task many times in a row! And they can be played just about anywhere. So today we bring you 10+ Ways to Count with Board Games. Count with board games ideas 1. Feed the Monkey Feed the Monkey from […]
10 Ways to Count with Clothespins
Clothespins are a popular accessory in any early childhood classroom or home so this post is all about learning to count with clothespins. One reason they’re widely used is the way kids get lots of fine motor practice without even being aware of it, which is brilliant for pre-writing development! Count with clothespins ideas 1. DIY count […]
8 Skip Counting Beach Puzzles
Gaining confidence with skip counting is a great way for kids to improve their mathematical thinking. Learning facts so they’re instinctive means their brains are freed up to think about the more difficult aspects of a problem. These free skip counting beach puzzles are a fun way to encourage this automaticity. Creating your puzzles Download […]
10 Ways to Count with Storybooks
It’s time to focus on storybooks as part of this ’10 Ways to Count’ roundup series. As educators and parents we love to read to our kids, it’s such a great way to learn and builds closer relationships. Using extension activities to incorporate the counting we read about is a natural progression that gives meaning […]
10 Ways to Count with Snacks
Food is an integral part of life so this week’s counting roundup has ideas for kids to count with snacks. Some are healthy and some are not, some are for eating and some snack foods are just being used as another form of manipulative. Since kids often love to play with their food, perhaps this […]
Ice Cream Sundaes Money Addition
Ice cream is pretty motivating to most kids (me, too) so using sundaes for money addition is not a bad strategy! Just don’t let your kids make them like this in real life or you’ll have ice cream dripping all over your kitchen table to the floor! Preparing your sundae money addition cards Print off […]
Interactive Number Lines to 10
Gaining confidence with number lines is an effective way of improving general number sense, and is a precursor to later success with math. And they’re fun, too! Interactive number lines The advantage of children using number lines to become familiar with numbers and to begin to solve problems, is that they help develop an understanding […]
6 Vegetable Skip Counting Puzzles
These skip counting puzzles are great for kids to practice reading numerals and putting them in order. And they have the added bonus of reminding kids about different kinds of vegetables! Creating your skip counting puzzles Simply download the Vegetable Skip Counting Puzzles (below), print them onto card then cut along the dividing lines. Using […]
Space Counting Mats: Addition and Subtraction
Let’s get counting with these space counting mats for addition and subtraction. Add some planets, the sun and a moon and off we go! There are links to 16 more space activities at the bottom of this post so don’t forget to scroll down! Preparing your space counting mats Download this free printable (below). Print […]