Counting lesson plans 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!
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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.
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16 Counting Activities for Preschoolers
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George is counting like crazy lately! I don’t know when, but it just clicked for him one day. Now, to put it into context, these are some fun counting activities for preschoolers to practice their 1-2-3s!
There are some many hands on counting activities to do with the kids!
Finding what’s in nature, counting leaves, counting petals, counting rocks.
Or look in their toy bin and sort objects and count, count, count!
How many blue blocks are there?
How many straight train tracks are set up?
How many….? what?
Once I see my kids are interested in counting, they can’t seem to stop! George counts everything. When we’re playing board games, he counts how many cards, pieces, whatever it is that is left. Board games are also great for beginners to count spaces, usually its only a few spaces at a time, so its a great way to start.
Whatever it is… make counting fun and natural for the kids. I never try to force a learning problem on them. But just expand on what they’re currently interested in.
These are 16 activities for preschoolers to practice counting.
These are activities that really focus in on the child counting. I have also put together some awesome number activities that include counting, but also number recognition and one to one correspondence.
Download the FREE Learn a Number Week!
Counting activities that are lots of fun:
- Roll the dice.
Count them. Stack the blocks. Count them. Repeat. – One to One Correspondence Practice with Dice & Blocks - Go on a scavenger hunt to find numbers and match them up with the corresponding dots. – Letter & Number Scavenger Hunt for Preschoolers to Learn
- Graph Legos (or other blocks) by counting, counting, counting! – Using Legos to Teach Math & Writing from Crayon Freckles
- Use Dominoes to decide which chore to do. How many dots are on the Domino? Count them. That’s the chore to do. – Chore List with Dominoes & Numbers
- More Dominoes! Line up the Dominoes by matching the dots. How many dots are there? – Learning Activity with Dominoes
- Label bottles with numbers and have the kids count and drop pom poms (or any small object) in. – Sort and Count Math Bottles from The Imagination Tree
- Instead of bottles, do it with baby food jars! For the farm-loving kid, call them grain bins and have them haul their ‘grain’ and put it in the bins.
Each bin can only hold the amount its labeled as. – Number Activity: Learn to Count with Grain Bins - Make a simple grid on the sidewalk with numbers and find that many objects from nature! – Counting Objects from Nature from Scribble Doodle and Draw
- Make a paper chain and count down to something exciting (a birthday, holiday, first day of school, last day of school, vacation, etc)! Every day, count how many chains are left to see how many more days. –Countdown to Christmas: Wrapping Paper Chain
- Count snacks! Line up some numbers and count snacks to match the number! – We’re Going on a Bear Hunt from Chasing Cheerios
- Head out into nature and petals on the flowers you find. Take it a step further and sort them by number of petals! – Counting Flower Petals
- Count apple seeds. Use tally marks as visuals! Apple Seed Math from ABCs to ACTs.
- Play to your child’s interests. For a vehicle-loving child, use semis to haul blocks to build towers using the correct number of blocks.
– Counting Blocks While Building Towers - Count using paper clips. Make cute flash cards with numbers and have the kids clip as many paper clips! Paper Clip Number Cards from Early Education Zone.
- Make a grid of numbers to learn to count and recognize numbers. – What’s the Number? Count it with Blocks!
- Practice skip counting but tens! Use some Cheerios and toothpicks. Counting to ten over and over again, then skip count by ten to 100! – Cheerios Skip Counting by 10s with 1-2-3 Peas
Download the FREE Learn a Number Week!
Which counting activities on this list will you do first? Or better yet, what activities would you add for your preschooler to practice counting?
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Summary of the lesson "Repetition of the count to 10" (for preschoolers)
MUNICIPAL BUDGET EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION
ADDITIONAL EDUCATION
HOUSE OF CHILDREN'S CREATIVITY "CONSTELLATION"
MUNICIPAL Education city of Krasnodar
Outline of the open classes
Topic: “Repetition: counting to 10.
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Additional education teacher education
Arushanyan Marina Eduardovna
Age of children: 5-6 years old
Number of children: 10 people
Group: Freckles
Date 11.03.20
2019-2020 academic year.
Plan - abstract lessons.
Topic: Repetition: Count to 10.
Purpose: fix the account before 10.
Tasks:
Educational tasks:
Ø Consolidate knowledge children about quantitative and ordinal counting from 1 to 10.
Ø Consolidate knowledge forward and backward counting within 10.
Ø Pin the ability to name consecutive days of the week, determine which day of the week was yesterday, what will be tomorrow.
Pin ideas about the formation of the subsequent number
from the preceding.
Pin the ability to correlate the number with the number of objects
Developing tasks:
Ø Develop connected speech.
Develop logical thinking, visual and auditory memory, attention.
Educational tasks:
Ø Bring up curiosity and interest in the activity.
Bring up ability to cooperate, follow the rules of work in a team.
Type classes: Consolidation.
View classes: Practical occupation.
Form works: Group, individual.
Equipment and TCO: envelope with a letter, Dunno picture, cards with numbers from 0 to 10, music center, television.
Technology elements: student-centered, health-saving and information and communication.
References.
1. Danilova, V.V. Mathematical training of children in preschool institutions. - Moscow: Education, 1987.
2. Use game methods in the formation of mathematical skills in preschoolers representations". - L.: 1990.
3. Leushina, A. M. Lessons on the account in kindergarten. 2nd ed. - M., 1995.
4. Metlina, A.S. Mathematics in kindergarten. - M.: Education, 2001.
I. Plan - lesson summary.
II. Organizational moment.
1. Greetings.
2. Examination readiness of students for the lesson.
III. Main part.
1. Introductory conversation.
Count up to 10.
2. Fixing passed material.
1 task "Math warm-up"
2 task "Lost figures".
3 task "Questions and answers"
3. Fizminutka.
4 task "Put signs".
5 task "Video question".
4. Finger gymnastics.
5. Practical part of the lesson.
"Count and color"
IV. Final part.
Summing up the lesson.
Evaluation of children's work.
Children: Hello!
II. Main part.
1. Introductory conversation.
Teacher: Guys, this morning the postman brought the envelope. It only has the address Math City.
Teacher: Are you interested to know who sent us an envelope?
Children: Yes.
Count up to 10.
Teacher: How can I open it? Necessary count to 10.
Children count in chorus from 1 to 10. The teacher shows cards with numbers.
The teacher opens the letter, it contains material to complete tasks.
the teacher reads the letter.
Hello guys! Writes you Dunno. All children go to school, learn to write, read, count. Me too I want to go to school. To do this, I need to solve many different difficult tasks. Help me please".
Teacher: Will the guys help Dunno?
Children: Yes.
Anchoring passed material.
1 task "Mathematical warm-up".
Teacher: Remember the ordinal score from 1 to 10.
Children: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.
Teacher: Recall the countdown from 10 to 1.
Children: 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.
Teacher: Count from 3 to 9.
Children: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9.
Teacher: Count from 4 to 8.
Children: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8.
Teacher: 10 to 5.
Children: 10, 9, 8, 7, 6 , 5.
Teacher: Well done guys!
Teacher: Dunno sent we are presented with a fairy tale "The Wolf and the Seven Kids", this is his favorite fairy tale.
Teacher: Guys, remember that can it also represent the number seven?
Children: Days of the week, there are 7 of them.
Teacher: What is the name of the first day weeks?
Children: The first day of the week is Monday.
Teacher: What is the name of the next day weeks?
Children: Tuesday.
Teacher: What order is he?
Children: Second.
Teacher: What day follows Tuesday?
Children: Wednesday.
Teacher: What is the order of this day weeks?
Children: 3.
Teacher: What is the name of the next day weeks?
Children: Thursday.
Teacher: What is the order of this day weeks?
Children: Fourth.
Teacher: What are the names of the 5th, 6th and 7th days of the week?
Children: Friday, Saturday, Sunday.
Teacher: Let's name the days again weeks. (Children repeat in chorus)
2 task . Game "Numbers in the litter".
“A strange case, a rare case
Numbers in a quarrel, here they are!
To stand with your neighbor,
Not a single one wants to,
We need to reconcile the numbers
And restore their order.
Teacher: Guys, let's build a number series from 1 to 10.
Teacher: Let's repeat the number series.
Children: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.
Teacher: And what number did you put between numbers 7 and 9?
Children: 8.
Teacher: Guys, let's have a little let's rest.
3. Physical education. "You see the butterfly flies."
See, the butterfly flies, (We wave our winged arms).
Counts flowers in the meadow. (We count with a finger).
- One, two, three, four, five. (clapping hands).
Oh, don't count! (Jumping in place).
For a day, for two and for a month... (We walk on the spot).
Six, seven, eight, nine, ten. (clapping hands).
Even a wise bee (We wave our winged arms).
I couldn't count! (We count with a finger).
3 task "Questions and answers".
Teacher: Guys, Dunno asks help answer his questions, otherwise he will not be accepted to school, we will help answer questions.
I will ask them to you, but you will show me the answer to the question using the numbers from the box. The most important condition is that you can’t speak, you can just show the number.
- How many suns are there in the sky? (one).
- How many backs do three pigs have? (3).
- How many hooves does a horse have when a horse lies on the grass? (four).
- How many fingers are on one hand? (5).
- Five puppies + mother Laika, how much will count? (6).
- Little Marina has four sweets. Yet Allah gave three, how much did it become? (7).
Guys show the correct answer using cards.
4 task. "Put signs."
Teacher: Guys, let's help Dunno compare pictures and to identify where the objects are more, less, and where equally. And put the right sign.
Children doing tasks on individual cards. After completing the tasks, the guys "read" the resulting record.
5 task "Video question".
Teacher: And now guys video task.
Attention to the screen. What number are we talking about?
Children: In this cartoon, Aunt Owl talks about the number 10.
Teacher: Build it out of counting sticks.
Guys lay out the number from the counting sticks.
Teacher: Guys, how many fingers are on the handles?
Children: 10.
Teacher: Well done.
4. Finger gymnastics.
Teacher: Well done guys, it's time get some rest.
Left fingers hands, starting with the little finger, alternately bend to the palm with the words:
This finger wants sleep,
This finger lay in bed,
This little finger took a nap,
This finger is already fell asleep,
Hush, hush, do not make some noise, (Swing the fist with your right hand.)
Sun red will rise,
The clear morning will come,
There will be birds Twitter,
There will be fingers get up! (Fingers forcefully spread like a fan.)
5. The practical part of the lesson.
"Count and color"
Teacher: If we help Dunno today, he will definitely go to school. Guys, here's the challenge. Color the pictures.
Children do the task.
III. Final part.
Summing up lesson outcomes.
Verbal evaluation of children's work.
Teacher: You guys are great! Helped Dunno with all the tasks. I think that he will definitely be accepted into the school.
Teacher: Goodbye!
Appendix No. 1.
| Stage | Teacher's activity | Activities of children | Organizational moment Motivation Problem Planning Plan Assessment, result and reflection | -in the circle, . We will now go to the right, Now we will go to the left. Let's gather in the center of the circle. And we will all return to the place, Smile, wink Let's start playing again. D/I "Determine your place." - Do you guys like to travel? Today I invite you to go to the Kingdom of Mathematics. Want to? -To find out which vehicle we will travel on, we need to guess a riddle: this vehicle is square in shape, flies through the air, happens only in fairy tales. -That's right, this is a flying carpet, so that it takes off we need to say the magic words: Flying carpet, Take flight. Tests are waiting for us, Difficult tasks. - So that you do not get bored while we are flying, I will ask you riddles. A wheel has rolled, After all, it is similar, Like a visual nature Only for a round figure. Dear friend guessed? Well, of course, this is… -Look at the figure And draw in the album Three angles, three sides, Connect to each other. The result is not a square, - But beautiful ... I am a figure, at least where, Always very even, All angles in me are equal And four sides. Cube is my beloved brother, Because I... - Well done, all the riddles were solved, and we landed in the Kingdom of Mathematics. Numbers, numbers, signs, geometric shapes live here. -Guys, the numbers have been preparing for a meeting with you for so long that they have confused their places in the number series. Help them guys find their place. - Well done! And now let's play the game "Numbers-neighbors". - I will call you a number, and you will call the neighbors of this number. -Good! And you have completed this task. The people of the Kingdom want to know if you can count to 10 and back. - Guys, not only the numbers, but also the signs are mixed up from excitement here. You and I need to check whether the signs “>” and “ have fallen into place Getting started: (showing the cards to the children) 9> 8 4 > 3 7 > 8 57 5 - Well done! You also completed this task. Ball game "Say the other way around". The teacher throws the ball to the child and names one of the mathematical concepts. - Long. - Large. - Wide. - High. - Thick. -Far away. - Top. - Left. - Forward. - One. - Outside. - Lightweight. - Well done! Take your seats. - Guys, the inhabitants of the Kingdom wanted to know if you can solve problems. Be careful, you are waiting for difficult puzzles. Here are the mushrooms on the lawn In yellow caps they stand: Two mushrooms, three mushrooms, How many will be together? - Guys, what is the action in this problem, addition or subtraction? Seven merry piglets Standing in a row at the trough Two went to bed to go to bed - How many pigs are there in the trough? - Guys, what sign lives in this problem “+” or “-” Grandson Shura for lunch Grandfather gave seven sweets yesterday, Grandson ate one candy, How many pieces are left? -Our cat has five kittens Sitting side by side in a trap, And the neighbor's cat has three, Help me count, How much is three and five? - Well done! And now here's a problem There were four apples on the table, one cut in half. - You know how to solve problems, but can you decompose a number into two smaller numbers? - Let's check! I show the children cards with numbers, they sort them into smaller numbers. - And now for a physical education minute! Round dance game "Centipede" - There is a centipede. On a flat path, She is learning to count: 1,2,3,4,5. Suddenly she stumbled And turned over, Forgot what she counted, And started again. A butterfly descended from the sky, It swirled with us. It's easy to count up to five: 1,2,3,4,5. Suddenly a bee flew in, Called everyone to the round dance And the countdown began: 5,4,3,2,1 (10,9,8,7 ... 1) - Well done! And now the last task. In front of you are cards that depict ducklings, hares and caterpillars. You need to color the second bunny blue, color the middle duck yellow. - Guys, our journey is over. We completed all the tasks, helped the inhabitants of the Kingdom of Mathematics. And now I invite you to the flying carpet to fly to our kindergarten. Sit down comfortably, let's say the magic words: Flying carpet, Take flight. Tests are waiting for us, Difficult tasks. - Today we made an exciting trip to the Kingdom of Mathematics. Did you enjoy the trip? - What was the most interesting task? - The most difficult? - The citizens of the Mathematical Kingdom gave you a gift, look what it is? (Games "Tangram", "Leaf", "Vietnamese game").
| Children stand in a circle together with the teacher. Children perform movements in accordance with the text. The child identifies and names his place in relation to other children. -Children's answers. - Flying carpet. 
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Let's play. 
How many apples are left on the table? 
Color the rightmost caterpillar green. 
