Counting for preschool

40 Counting Games And Number Activities For Preschoolers

The basic foundation of math is understanding numbers and quantities. One of the best ways to develop these understandings, or number sense, is through handling objects and counting them. We can listen to preschoolers recite numbers in order, but we want them to apply that to counting objects and understand that those numbers represent quantities of items. Counting games and activities encourage preschoolers to “play” with numbers and quantities and build math skills and number sense in natural ways. These ideas can help you build math and counting skills with preschoolers.

Counting Games and Activities

These 40 preschool math games include counting games and various number activities. They are perfect to help build counting skills and math skills in your preschoolers and kindergarten students.

1. Dog Bone Counting Game (Pre-K Pages) – This is a fun, hands-on counting game for students in your preschool, pre-k, or kindergarten classroom.

2. Farm Animal Counting Activity (Pre-K Pages) – What could be more fun than Counting Feet with farm animals?

3. Printable Counting Book (Pre-K Pages) – Identifying and naming numbers can be a difficult skill for young children in preschool and kindergarten.

4. Homemade Counting Board Game (Pre-K Pages) – This homemade game can help preschoolers develop math concepts while playing a game together.

5. Mouse Counts Game (Pre-K Pages) – Mouse Count inspired this activity that helps children practice counting to ten while also working on their fine motor skills – and it’s lots of fun too!

6. Fire Truck Counting Game (Pre-K Pages) – In this activity, children will explore fire trucks and firefighters with a counting game.

7. Penguin Counting Game (Pre-K Pages) – This Penguin Counting Game is the perfect addition to any winter theme, lots of fun for young children and great practice for counting, number sense, and one-to-one correspondence.

8. Ocean Theme Counting Activity (Pre-K Pages) – The best preschool activities allow children to be interactive and hands on while they explore new concepts. We’ve developed a fun, easy to prepare ocean theme counting activity to do just that.

9. Nursery Rhyme Number Game (Pre-K Pages) – This nursery rhyme activity relates to “Baa Baa Black Sheep” and encourage number recognition and counting, important math concepts.

10. Digital Counting Activities Using Google Slides (Teaching Mama) – This resource has digital counting activities, which is perfect for the preschool and kindergarten age.

11. Button Counting (Busy Toddler) – Grab a deck of cards for this fun button counting math activity.

12. Football Counting Game (Sunny Day Family) – With a die, football printable, and some yogurt Danimals it’s a fun counting game your preschoolers will love.

13. Snowman Hole Punch Counting (JDaniel4’s Mom) – Use your hole punch to create these snowmen and work in a fun counting activity to go along with it.

14. Ladybug Busy Bag (Preschool Inspirations) – Work on counting with your preschoolers with these adorable paper ladybugs.

15. Cookie Counting Game (Still Playing School) – Have your kids practice counting chocolate chips with these paper chocolate chip cookies.

16. Counting Snowballs (Fun-a-Day) – This easy counting cotton balls activity is a great math activity for your preschoolers.

17. Race to Fill the Cup (Mom Inspired Life) – Have fun filling a cup with these adorable erasers.

18. Count and Compare (Stir the Wonder) – Use these fun Farm Animal Rainbow Counters to inspire young children interested in animals or to go along with a farm theme!

19. Little Miss Muffet Path Game (Preschool Spot) – This fun activity is based on the nursery rhyme, Little Miss Muffet.

20. Tally Marks with Pencils (Munchkins and Moms) – Have fun practicing making tally marks with #2 pencils.

Counting Games and Number Activities For Preschoolers

More preschool math games to enjoy! These counting games and number activities will be definitely enjoyed by your preschoolers and build their math skills.

21. DIY Counting Boxes (Parenting Chaos) – Label containers with numbers and then have your preschooler fill each bucket with the labeled number of items.

22. Play Dough Numbers and Counting (Little Pinch of Perfect) – This activity is simple to set up and a great way to expose young kids to numbers and lets them visually see the difference in amounts. The activity can be adapted for different skill levels by making smaller or larger numbers.

23. Passing Car Count (Prekinders) – In this activity, we watched for red & blue cars as they passed by on the street. Children recorded the cars they saw by marking dots on their sheet with a corresponding color crayon.

24. Ways to Teach Counting (Prekinders) – Here are 15 ways to teach counting skills in Pre-K.

25. Ants on a Log Game (Teach Preschool) – DIY “ants on a log” counting game with the children then invite the children to draw their own ants on a log…

26. The Math Box (Teach Preschool) Create a simple math box and then watch as your preschoolers love filling it and practice their counting skills.

27. Counting and Addition Tray (Imagination Tree) – Set up an open-ended maths activity for kids using counting manipulatives, play dough and a dice, in a dip tray!

28. Simple Montessori Counting Activity (My Mundane and Miraculous Life) – This simple counting activity with rocks, your child can work on number recognition.

29. Things to Count With (Pre-K and K Sharing) – Repurpose what you have and count items with your preschooler!

30. How Many Blocks Long? (Brick by Brick) – This is a fun activity where your preschooler can see how many block longs they are and practice counting as they do it.

31. Make Groups of Numbers (Teach Me Mommy) – This simple counting activity is easy to setup, can be played with one or more children and it is fun too!

32. Count and Smash Activity (Stir the Wonder) – The great thing about play dough besides that it is just fun, is that it is also a great way to work on fine motor skills, work in some math skills, and get some sensory input and it can be used in many ways for hands-on learning!

33. Activities with Counting Blocks (Educators’ Spin on It) – These are 8 math and counting activities for your preschooler to enjoy.

34. Where the Wild Things Are Game (Mom Inspired Life) – While playing, children practice counting, learn one to one correspondence and even get some fine motor practice.

35. Listen and Spray Game (Fantastic Fun and Learning) – This activity is great for counting practice but also for fine motor practice.

36. Race to Lose a Tooth Game (Toddler Approved) – This fun dental theme inspired activity with marshmallows is a fun counting game for your preschoolers to enjoy.

37. Roll and Count (Buggy and Buddy) – Here’s a counting math game for kids perfect for practicing one-to-one correspondence. It’s super easy to make and lots of fun for the kids!

38. Count Forward and Back Game (Fantastic Fun and Learning)- This preschool math game would be perfect during St. Patrick’s day and March in your classroom.

39. Build a City Game (Learning 4 Kids) If your preschooler loves playing with Legos then they will love this math game.

40. Mystery Mitten Tactile Counting Game (Preschool Toolbox) – Gather some real mittens and come play a tactile mystery mitten counting game to encourage early math intuition with tactile support!

Also check out the free Winter Play Dough Counting Mats and our other thematic counting mats.

Follow my Counting Pinterest Board for more great ideas!

How to teach toddlers and preschoolers to count, and learn their numbers

While the concept of numbers being associated with quantity can be hard to grasp at first, children are actually quite good at learning these initial math skills. They just need a little bit of help, and fun, to get them going. Eventually, the knowledge builds upon itself, much like language. So, how do we teach toddlers and preschoolers to count and learn their numbers in the first place? That’s what we’ll discuss in this article.

Teach numbers and counting with pre-number theories

The concept of quantity is all around us. Everywhere we look, one object is bigger than another object. Or, there are more peas than carrots on our plate. Some blocks are square and some are rectangular. Blocks can stack to grow a tall tower. A balloon can get bigger when more air is added to it. This is all mathematics in real life.

When a child is in the toddler stage, you can begin teaching numbers by emphasizing, verbally, that some things are big, and some are small. You can also hold up a stick and say, “it is very tall, it is bigger than this stick!”

Kids can see that obviously, there are differences between quantities and size. But putting a name to those quantities and sizes is what comes next. That takes learning concrete symbolism for numbers and counting.

Teach toddlers to count by making numbers fun to learn

In a way, we are talking about memorization techniques here. And, while flashcards with numbers on them, and dominoes with dots on them, can be helpful, we are not talking about sitting a toddler at a desk and asking them to learn by listening carefully. Children learn through play. Even better, when they can manipulate and touch objects while learning, their memory of those concepts can be strengthened. This is called kinaesthetic learning, or tactile learning.

So, how do we make counting fun for toddlers?

Play games! Sing songs about numbers! Just like we learn the alphabet song to memorize the alphabet in a fun way, we can also sing songs about counting. “One, two, buckle my shoe” and “5 little monkeys jumping on the bed” are definitely relevant here. YouTube will have plenty more songs and ways to teach numbers to children.

During story time, before bed, you can also play a simple game of ‘repeat after me.’ Ask your child to repeat the word, “one,” then “two,” then “three” and so on. Keep doing this until they learn that there is a pattern to be followed.

Next, try to switch turns saying the numbers. You say, “one,” and then pause and say, “what’s next?” At first, they may not know, because they may not have understood that this fun game is about remembering. But eventually, they’ll get the queue to say “two” after one, and “three” after two, and so on. They may also go out of sequence, but you can correct them by saying the right number, if they skip one or two.

At this point, they are learning random words through memorization. The idea that these words have to do with quantity may not sink it yet.

Start with small increments of number memorization with toddlers

And important note here: don’t expect your child to reach 10 by starting with 10 numbers to memorize. That’s too hard for a two or three year old. Instead, start with “one, two, three!” You can keep saying this as though it’s a common phrase. They may even repeat with “one, two…” and that’s ok! You can make “three” the big ‘celebratory’ number. Clap and say, “threeeeee!”

Then, you can move on to “four, five,” and so on.

Teach 2D representations of numbers to toddlers and preschoolers

What do we mean by 2D representations of numbers? This is basically writing out numbers on paper, or using flash cards. Let preschoolers see the written number 1, and understand that when you say, “one,” and they say, “one” that it is referring to that graphical character. Then likewise with 2, 3, 4 and so on.

You can also draw dots next to the numbers, or use dominoes or dice, to show children that numbers also relate to quantity.

You’ll notice children’s counting books use this same method. Except, instead of dots, they’ll show pictures of say, two apples, three flowers, four friends, and so on. This also helps children with language development, vocabulary, and the association between quantity and numbers.

Read these types of early learning books to children every day. In a gamified and storyful way, you can ingrain the thought that printed numerals, verbal words and quantities of objects are all related to each other.

The human mind is amazing. You won’t need to do much explaining of how this works. Children will pick up patterns, and learn to repeat, until they ‘get it’ by ‘doing. ’ Just remember to make it fun, so they’ll want to!

Mix up sequences and patterns to teach individual numbers to preschoolers

When a child has a grasp on numbers, and is fairly confident about saying them in order (typically up to 10), you can start with a few ‘tricks.’ There are plenty of workbooks and worksheets to help with this. They will display a set of numbers in random order. Ask your preschooler, “where is number seven?” You can help them search the page, or point to the wrong one and say, “is that number seven?” If they say, “yes,” you say, “nooooo” like it’s a silly game. Then ask again by pointing to another, “is that number seven?” and repeat until they get it right. When they get it right, you give them a, “yaaaay! Good job!” and a high five.

Come back to this activity as they learn to counter higher and higher.

Constantly count physical objects with children to teach numbers

Finally, when you’re with your toddler, like with all lessons, try to apply them in real life. When playing with blocks, stack them and count, while pointing, “one, two! That’s two blocks!” When you cut up little banana pieces for a toddler, show them their plate and count the pieces (obviously don’t count higher than they’re able to understand). You can say, “there are three pieces left! One, two, three” and point while you count them.

You can do this by lining up pebbles in the park, or by counting shoes when putting them on, and so on. Make counting part of their thought process, so they begin to recognize quantity. They should be able to understand beyond just ‘more’ and ‘less’ or ‘big’ and ‘small,’ and so on.

To conclude: teach toddlers and preschoolers to count by actively bringing numbers into their lives

Children can learn to count at around age 2. Of course, some cases will always be different (either earlier or later). But to gauge a good age at which to start introducing numbers, you can start when they are toddlers. Don’t expect to make big strides at first, of course. They’re still taking in a lot at that age. Letters, numbers, objects, words, sounds, sensations – they’re absorbing it all, and rapidly, too.

But by making numbers part of the ‘norm’ in their lives, such as by playing, singing or pointing out quantities, you can teach counting in early childhood fairly easily. That way, by the time they enter preschool or kindergarten, children can have a base to built upon more advanced math skills.

For more on teaching young children how to count, see these resources (we’ve used some of them to inform this article):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinesthetic_learning
https://www.wikihow.com/Introduce-Numbers-to-Kindergartners
https://www.themeasuredmom.com/counting-books/
https://www.parentingscience.com/preschool-number-activities.html
https://www.parentingscience.com/preschool-math-lessons.html
https://www.allkidsnetwork.com/preschool/teach-numbers.asp
https://sciencing. com/use-montessori-methods-teach-counting-4530551.html
https://www.scholastic.com/teachers/articles/teaching-content/early-math-how-children-learn-about-numbers/

Plus, see related posts on our blog:

How to teach colours to toddlers and preschoolers
5 Easy ways to teach the alphabet to preschoolers
5 Simple ways to teach preschoolers phonics basics
How to teach digraphs to preschool children (6 ways)
8 Ideas to teach preschoolers about money management and why it’s important
Ideas for teaching shapes in preschool and daycare

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1. Calculation and placement of preschool educational institutions in the structure of the city,

Children's educational institutions are objects integrated into the living environment. AT practice of domestic urban planning kindergartens are calculated to provide preschool education for the entire contingent children of each specific residential microdistrict or complex in such a way that to ensure the coverage of educational institutions for 60%-70% of preschoolers. Recommended number of groups in general kindergartens type - from six to ten (permissible - no more than fourteen), in specialized - no more than six.

Arrange children's gardens follows the place of residence pupils, ensuring safe and a manageable walking trail. Along the way children should not go to kindergarten or school cross urban highways transport, other natural or artificial barriers.

Accommodation for children common development gardens are recommended in the structure of residential microdistricts and complexes, in the center of the service area providing convenient pedestrian links with residential buildings, for specialized preschool institutions additional the requirement is the proximity of stops public transport.

Service radius general kindergarten population (accessibility radius) is 300m; for specialized preschools accessibility radius not standardized, but should not exceed 30-minute transport accessibility.

2. Calculation kindergarten capacity

Calculation of the number and age groups are assigned according to the needs of this structural residential unit of a residential area, determined on the basis of statistical data. For this student project the following scheme is proposed calculation:

1. Kindergarten for 120 places:

Junior group age (from 2 to 3 years old) 1×20

Junior group (from 3 to 4 years) 1×20

middle group (from 4 to 5 years old) 1×20 Preschool group (from 5 up to 6 years) 2×20

Senior group (from 6 to 7 years old) 1×20

2. Kindergarten for 180 places:

Nurseries groups:

nursery group age (from 2 months to 1 year) 1×10

Early age (from 1 year to 2 years) 1x15

Junior group age (from 2 to 3 years old) 1×15

Junior group (from 3 to 4 years) 2×20

middle group (from 4 to 5 years old) 2×20 Preschool group (from 5 up to 6 years) 2×20

Senior group (from 6 to 7 years old) 1×20

By agreement with project leaders and department approval, capacity, nomenclature and occupancy of groups kindergarten may vary in designated limits.

Buildings and constructions kindergartens should be located on isolated land plots. AT in accordance with DBN V.2.2-4-97 (p. 2.3) the area of the land plot for kindergarten with a capacity of over 80 places should be determined on the basis of not less than 40 sqm per student. Territory kindergarten should be fenced.

As part of the land section of a general type kindergarten includes two main areas: play area - stay area children, and economic.

Play area territory includes group platforms, individual for each groups, and a common sports ground.

Group area sites are provided on the basis of – 8.0 sq.m per 1 toddler and 7.5 sq.m per 1 preschool child. Group areas should be equipped shade canopies with an area of at least 40 sq.m by the number of sites (shed area not included in the area of group sites).

Playgrounds for children toddlers should have herbal coating, playgrounds for preschoolers - partly herbal and partly sand gravel cover.

Sports and gaming zone of preschool institutions with a capacity up to 160 seats includes a gym platform intended for simultaneous use of one group. For institutions over 160 places there are 2 physical culture playgrounds - for nursery and preschool groups. Area of sports grounds should be designed based on less than 13.5 sq.m per 1 child in a group. Site coverage - sand and gravel mixture and grass cover.

For hardening children and organization of water games in sports and play area is recommended provide for a hydraulic platform with solid coating and drainage under the sewerage.

Playgrounds should connect the ring path with a solid coating with a width of at least 1.5 m2, marking and installation of road signs for training rules of conduct for pedestrians bicycles and pedal cars. Ring track can be combined with an entrance around the buildings.

Distance from group, physical culture, game sites to the nearest residential buildings at least 12 m2 is accepted.