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Number activities for preschoolers don't have to be boring and just worksheets, make them fun so your preschooler will love math!

I love math. I’m a nerd, yes. But I love anything to do with numbers.

I really do hope I can pass this along to my kids by making learning activities about numbers and counting fun for them and not a chore.

As I’m typing this, Henry’s shouting excitedly as he’s counting how many things on his sprayer…though I’m not really sure what he’s counting exactly. He made it to 39 though!

Because I’m a huge math nerd I searched for easy and fun number activities for preschoolers.

My Favorite 40+ Number Activities for Preschoolers!

Try these activities to help preschoolers learn their ABCs!

Recognizing Numbers Activities for Preschoolers

Identifying numbers can be a learning experience for preschoolers (and younger!). Many of the ABC recognition activities can also be adjusted for numbers.

My kids love these 12 number activities for preschoolers to recognize numbers.

  1. Turn a number into sensory art – perfect for the 100th day of school!
  2. Go on a hunt for numbers and match it with the same number!
  3. Follow a number from start to finish in a maze.
  4. Trace numbers, really big!
  5. Little Family Fun created a parking lot with numbers.
  6. Pop! Find the number and pop it!
  7. Find and match playing cards.
  8. Have target practice with water balloons and numbers, like Motherhood on a Dime
  9. Make art! Do this paint by number canvas art.
  10. Use stickers and printable number cards to play hide and seek, from Teach Mama.
  11. Draw and paint over numbers with q-tips, like Toddler at Play!
  12. Clip and match with giant numbers from You’ve Got This Math!
Activities for Number Recognition

Counting Activities for Preschoolers

Learning there’s a sequence to the numbers and what comes next. Try these 18 number activities to help preschoolers learn to count.

  1. Connect the dots! A simple past-time activity that reinforces the order of numbers.
  2. Upcycle a box into a puzzle of numbers!
  3. Create a maze of numbers to drive through. Can they count their way to the end?
  4. Stacking up boxes and counting how high you can go!
  5. Make a craft together with multiple pieces. Have your child do the counting!
  6. Count cars of a particular color while on the road, or semis, or vans, whatever suits their interest!
  7. Create a learning game with your ABC mat and number blocks. Choose a number block and pound the corresponding times with a hammer on the corresponding number mat!
  8. Let your child run an experiment and measure how much something holds! How many cups fit?
  9. Make puzzles with a picture. Label sections of the puzzle in numerical order. Cut apart and have your child put it back together again, from Growing in PreK.
  10. Use friendly animal crackers to practice counting and number recognition, like I Can Teach My Child.
  11. Measure objects (or yourself!) and count how big they are, from The Imagination Tree
  12. Count objects around the house. No Time For Flash Cards wants to know “How many doors do you have?”
  13. Play any board game, or make your own! Little Family Fun creates a fish race game!
  14. Count with LEGO! Do Play Learn likes to label a paper with numbers and count out the LEGO next to it.
  15. Snack time! Use dice and fruit snacks and play until you eat them all up, like Kids Activities Blog.
  16. Have a bean bag toss on the stairs, number them!
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Counting Activities for Preschoolers

One to One Correspondence Activities for Preschoolers

Knowing your numbers is one thing and knowing how to count is another. But being able to put them into context that they each have meaning is done with one to one correspondence.

Get ready for preschool with 35 name activities!

I love these 12 number activities that help a preschool practice one to one correspondence.

  1. Head out into nature and explore flowers. Count and compare flower petals! 
  2. Go on a hunt for a number and match it to its corresponding dots.
  3. Build towers of blocks on a number mat, with the correct number of blocks high!
  4. Spark your child’s interest with their interests! A farming approach of loading grain bins with the corresponding number of pieces of “grain.”
  5. Have a newspaper throwing game and count up the newspaper balls, or how many you make, or miss!
  6. Make something in the kitchen together, or do an experiment and let your child measure out and do the counting.
  7. Sort through objects by color, and count how many you have of each!
  8. Fill a dump truck with objects (like Dominoes!) and count how many you can fit in there, like Inspiration Laboratories.
  9. Estimate first for some fun and then count item, from Teach Preschool.
  10. Have a counting race in the front yard and pick dandelions in the process!
  11. Roll a die (or two!) and practice one to one correspondence as kids build towers with blocks.
  12. Use a dice and small objects (like pom poms or corn kernels) and count them and fill up a tray.
One to One Number Activities for Preschoolers

Counting and number books that will get preschoolers excited about numbers:

  • The Baker’s Dozen: A Counting Book
  • I Spy Numbers
  • One Big Building: A Counting Book About Construction (Know Your Numbers)

Do you actively work on numbers and counting with your child? Share your favorite activities!


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Learning Numbers in Preschool - Fantastic Fun & Learning

Learning numbers in preschool is a continual process of hands-on experiences and opportunities for real life counting. As kids are counting numbers they are learning many important skills. This collection of preschool number activities will give you a terrific springboard for helping preschoolers learn numbers.

Tips for Helping Kids Learn About Counting Numbers

Although counting may seem like a relatively simple process, there are actually a lot of steps to learning to count.

For starters children have to learn and memorize the numerical sequence for rote counting so they know the numbers to say as they count a set of objects.

They also need to understand one-to-one correspondence and be able to touch one object for each number they are saying as they count a set.

As they begin to count sets kids also need to learn that the set represents a quantity, and the last number they say when they are counting the objects in a set corresponds to that quantity. This is know as quantification.

And they must also recognize that if we add or remove an object from the set this changes the quantity, so we must count carefully and count again if we change the objects in the set.

Finally they must learn to recognize the written format of numbers and connect that concept to their rote counting and other knowledge about counting numbers.

As you can see it’s much more complicated than it seems on the surface, but we make it easier and more meaningful when we provide kids with a lot of hands-on counting opportunities throughout their learning and play.

For additional information about teaching numbers in preschool, visit these great teaching resource books.

Preschool Number Activities

Below are some tools that work well for a wide variety of number activities.

This list of DIY math manipulatives is also very helpful.

Hands-on Number Activities without Printables

There are so many hands-on ways to help kids who are learning numbers and counting.

We can practice counting throughout the day in many ways:

  • as we wait for something
  • as we prepare snacks and meals
  • as we gather objects
  • as we sing songs
  • as we take steps

On Fantastic Fun and Learning we’ve also shared many fun hands-on ideas for counting numbers. The options in this first section are all done without printables. If you’re looking for some free printables to help kids learning to count, I’ve added those in the next section.

In this listen and spray counting game, little learners listen for a number to be called and then spray it that many times with a spray bottle. It’s great for toddlers and preschoolers!

Wiggle to 1. Tiptoe to 2. Have fun with alliteration, and get kids up and moving with this fun counting game that emphasizes number recognition.

Tea anyone? During our tea time theme we practice counting and comparing tea packets.

Set up a caterpillar sensory bin. Then use it for a variety of caterpillar counting activities.

Continue the spring sensory fun with a counting seeds gardening sensory bin.

Use play dough and number stamps to create a counting garden.

Or head outdoors with some chalk to create your own sidewalk chalk counting garden.

Race to get the gold in this rainbow counting game.

Count Rainbow Fish’s beautiful scales in this play dough Rainbow Fish counting activity inspired by Marcus Pfister’s popular book.

Make your own pumpkin faces with this fall pumpkin counting activity.

Turn old egg cartons into a fun counting activity with these bat number matching sets.

Create and count antlers for this reindeer counting game.

Feed the reindeer in this reindeer counting pretend play activity.

Help the penguins cross the ice in this winter counting sensory bin.

Printables for Counting Numbers and Sets

On Fantastic Fun and Learning we also have a lot of free printables that give kids the opportunity to practice counting and number recognition. Some of them are nonseasonal and can be done any time of year. While others are more seasonal in nature. Many are also from our preschool lesson plans, as we prefer to include a wide range of skills and activities in each thematic unit.

With these dinosaur play dough mats, kids practice creating sets to match a specific number.

Exercise those fine motor muscles as you match the correct number of caterpillar “eggs” to leaves.

Use these rain theme counting cards to count out objects in a rainy day sensory bin.

Or have some creepy crawly fun counting worms in this spring sensory bin activity.

Grab some beach theme manipulatives and practice counting with these beach counting mats.

Count out snowballs to match the numbered snowmen in this winter counting activity.

Create your own printable book to read over and over again with this snowflake counting book.

Have fun creating your own play dough “chocolates” in this chocolate box counting activity.

Practice number recognition and sequencing 1-20 in this Valentine Scavenger Hunt.

Use this number scavenger hunt to help kids learn to read and write numbers to 20.

Use our roll and color math games to practice counting numbers and sets. There are a wide variety of options to choose throughout the year.

Printables for Teaching Different Ways to Represent Numbers

As kids become more comfortable creating sets of objects and recognizing numerals, we can extend their learning by introducing additonal ways to represent numbers.

The following printables are helpful for introducing this concept.

Insect Counting Mats

Spider Counting Mats

Gingerbread Counting Mats

Seashell Counting Mats

More Resources for Learning Numbers

Counting books are an excellent resource for learning numbers. Kids enjoy reading many of them over and over again. Here is a list of our favorite counting books for kids.

There are also more ideas for counting numbers in this collection of counting games.

The counting games and puzzles below are kid-tested and teacher approved.

What next?

As kids become proficient at counting numbers we can continue helping them develop number sense by:

  • working on concepts like one more and one less
  • comparing amounts
  • beginning to add and subtract

Numbers for children - Preparation for school and developmental tasks for children Mama7ya

Math for kids always starts with numbers. This is the basis of everything. Each number in children will be associated with a quantity. The child needs to see the number itself and the number of objects next to the number being studied. Visualization helps to quickly and efficiently study all the numbers.

How easy is it to learn numbers with a child?

Place numbers, dots and objects in front of the child. Put the required number of dots and objects next to each number. You can also highlight points and numbers with the same color. nine0003

Combined cards can also be used. Show the child a card, first count the dots with him, then the objects that are drawn on the card and show the designation of the number.

Counting sticks are great for introducing children to numbers. After showing the child the number, ask him to lay out the corresponding number of sticks.

There are many ways to learn numbers in a fun and playful way:

  • Sculpt numbers and dots with plasticine.
  • Build Lego figures. nine0016
  • Draw numbers and objects on each separate sheet.
  • Line up the toys and count them.
  • Count pencils or markers.
  • Lay out counting sticks.
  • Make applications from numbers.
  • Play hopscotch and jump on the numbers.
  • Cut out the numbers and the appropriate number of items for them.
  • Draw numbers and dots on asphalt in different colors.
  • Draw numbers in sand and snow.
  • Lay out numbers from pasta, and dots from peas.

As you can see, learning numbers with children is quite an interesting process for both children and parents. The form of the game will allow the child to be captivated by the study of numbers for a long time.

Lacing for the study of numbers will help you remember and circle the entire number. It also develops fine motor skills of the hands, which favorably affects the development of the child's speech. Below are stencils for playing and learning numbers. Print out the materials, make holes for each number according to the pattern and show your child how to thread the string while learning the number. nine0003

Below are numbers that you can color with your fingers. Having dipped the boy into the paint, the child will gladly run his finger over the dots. In this way, the child will have fun and interesting to study each number. To study the numbers, match each number with your own paint.

Item count. How many items are in the picture.

Find all the items and count their number. Enter the resulting numbers in the squares.

Let's count how many butterflies are in the picture.

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Count all the squirrels in the picture.

Find the swans in the picture and count how many there are in total.

How many balloons are launched into the sky?

The pictures show figures and objects. Connect the objects with the corresponding number with a line.

The picture shows objects. Count them and write down how many objects you see.

Find all the hidden numbers in the picture and say them.

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Digit 1

Number and digit 1

The number 1 is a unit of account and indicates the number of items, i.e. one cat, one boy, one sun.

The number 1 is the symbol that stands for number and is written as ONE.

The number 1 stands between the number zero (number 0) and the number two (number 2).

Let's show the child the number of toys equal to number 1 and ask: how many objects are in front of you? One doll, one duck, one locomotive, one giraffe, one bucket.

Let's lay out with the child from counting sticks the number one , and then next to it we will put one stick, which will indicate the corresponding number, i.e. number 1 .

Now we have figured out what is the difference between the number 1 and the number 1.

Let's study number and number 1 together with animals. Let's talk with the child about animals and that each animal has one? nine0003

Answer questions about the number 1 and the number 1 :

  1. How many tails does a tiger have? Answer: One tail is a number, and let's denote it by the number 1.
  2. How many beaks does a sparrow have? Answer: One beak - we will say the number 1, and write the number 1.
  3. How many noses does a cat have? Answer: the cat has one nose (let's say - the number 1), we will also write the answer - the number 1.

Write down how many apples grow on the tree and voice this number.

Answer: One apple grows on a tree (number 1), and we write 1 apple (number 1) next to the picture. nine0003

With the help of the game, the child will develop an idea of ​​the number 1 and the number 1. In the form of a game, classes with children are interesting, fun and memorable.

Let's prepare a handout and repeat the following concepts: large, smaller, small with the number 1 and the number 1.

Let's draw one big Christmas tree on the first white sheet of paper and place a big mushroom under this Christmas tree. Let's say that we see one big Christmas tree (we voice the number 1) and next we write the number 1.

Then we take out the second sheet of paper and draw a smaller Christmas tree and announce to the child that we have drawn 1 smaller Christmas tree (number 1) and sign the number 1 next to it. A smaller mushroom will also grow under the smaller Christmas tree. Voice the number 1 and write the number 1 next to the smaller mushroom.

Now we need a third sheet and on it we draw a small Christmas tree and a small fungus. small Christmas tree, small mushroom, number 1 and number 1.

This lesson reinforces the concepts of large smaller small and the need to use the number 1 and the number 1.

At the lesson number and number 1, the child learns to understand and reinforces the following concepts:

  1. How does the number 1 differ from the number 1.
  2. What number does the counting start from.

Open the picture book and ask the child to list all the items that match the number 1.

Talk to the child again:

Number 1 - we say aloud the number of objects corresponding to this number.

Digit 1 is a digit representing the number 1, write the digit.

Thus, we have analyzed concepts of the number 1 and the number 1 .

Presentation topic number 1 and number 1 .

Invite the child to circle the large drawn number 1. Then you can offer to circle the number 1 in dots, the copybooks with the number 1 will help in this. And then, after practicing writing the number 1 in dots, the child tries to reproduce writing the number 1 himself.0003

Lesson summary number and number 1 will help in conducting classes and diversify classes with preschoolers and 1st grade students.

This material can be used as abstract for a lesson about the number 1 and the number 1 .

The first acquaintance with numbers and figures in a child begins with , the number 1 and the number 1 .

After learning the count up to 10, you can start writing numbers from 1 to 10.

When writing each number, you need to approach correctly, show how to write a number and how to connect each element of the number to each other. For clarity, the child can be shown how to spell the number 1: 9 correctly.0003

When you write the number 1 with your child, say the name of the number "one".

To begin with, we put a point from which the writing of zirf one will begin, and then we place subsequent points to connect with the rest. We will begin our introduction to writing the number one by writing a large version of this number. That is, on a white sheet of paper, we will write the number one in a large size, gradually reducing it in size, and then we will practice writing the number 1 in a school notebook. nine0003

It is better to pronounce and tell all classes in a playful way with a cheerful cheerful mood. The child will immediately become interested in learning numbers and numbers. After all, if a fun game helps develop mathematical skills, the child will be happy to join such a game and gain new knowledge.

Plasticine will help to fix the study of the number one well. With the help of plasticine, we make the number 1 and make one circle of the same color. So we immediately involved in the lessons both fine motor skills and logical comparison numbers 1 and digits 1 .

After completing the lesson, we summarize the topic studied and praise the child for his progress in learning the number 1 and the number 1 .

Digit 2

Name the items in the picture:

  • Two (spoons)
  • two (mushrooms)
  • two (balls)
  • Two (handles)
  • two (Lastiki)
  • two (ruler)
  • two (thermometers)
  • two (cats)
  • Two (pawls)
  • Two (keys)

Draw two circles and two squares with your child.

Find 2 objects in the room and ask the child to name and describe them.

Ask the child to show 2 fingers on his hand.

In the lessons on the number 2 and number 2, we will analyze the following:

  1. Let's introduce the child to the number and number 2.
  2. Let's learn the place of the number 2 in a series of numbers from 1 to 10.
  3. Let's teach how to compare the number of objects equal to the number 2.
  4. We will train writing the number 2.
  5. Let's teach a child to understand the difference between the number 2 and the number 2.

In the last lesson we got acquainted with the number 1 and the number 1, now we are moving on to studying the number 2 and the number 2.

There was 1 mushroom in the basket, 1 more mushroom was put in it. As a result, there were 2 mushrooms in the basket. We speak with the child the number 2.

Digit 7

This is what the number seven looks like.

The number seven corresponds to the seven items shown in the figure below.

The digits seven are greater than the digits: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.

Find all the numbers 7 in the picture and circle them.

Draw the number seven in red.

Where is the number seven hidden in the picture?

Draw the same number of objects next to the number 7.

The number 7 is between the numbers 6 and 8 in the middle, that is, 6 7 8.

At school, the number seven in the notebook is taught to write as shown in the picture.

Educational games Learn numbers for kids

Contents

  1. Cards with sheep "Learn numbers"
  2. Copy-book numbers
  3. Circle the correct numbers
  4. Lego numbers
  5. Games "Learn numbers" for children
  6. Name it!
  7. Make the number
  8. SCHERICS BELISES
  9. Founds
  10. Pantomime
  11. Coarse
  12. Gymnastics according to numbers
  13. Find the error
  15. Tanagrams “Digines”
    16. Tan painter Prans of paintering Pravders . 0015 Learning Numbers Board Games for Kids
  16. Mixed Dominoes
  17. Printable Learning Numbers Challenges for Kids
  18. Digital Maze
  19. Finger Counting up to 10

Learning Numbers Educational Games & Selection for Kids assignments. Print out children's tasks with numbers for preschoolers.

Children aged 2-5 usually do not yet know all the numbers, but only name or “recognize” some of them. Kids confuse a number and a number, a number and a letter, they confuse numbers with each other: zero and the letter 0, G and 1, 2 and 5, 9and 6, 1 and 4, etc. Often violate the sequence between adjacent numbers from a series.

Certain difficulties arise in some children when the result of the count must be indicated by a number or the figure must be correlated with the required number of items.

Lessons "Learn numbers" for preschool children will allow you to easily and quickly eliminate such problems in a playful way.

Here: games for children "Let's learn letters".

Cards with sheep "Learning Numbers"

Educational cards - visual material, convenient for explaining any topic. Therefore, it is successfully used in the study of numbers. nine0003

Copy-book numbers

Here: Print additional copy-book numbers for children.

Circle the correct numbers

Lego numbers

Learning numbers games for kids

Name it!

Figures made from different materials are considered: paper, cardboard, fabric, printed on cards of different sizes and colors, written or printed, etc. In the process of such a lesson, you can find out what numbers the child knows and where he saw them.

Make a number

It is proposed to lay out figures from circles, sticks, cubes, triangles, mosaics, mold them from plasticine, clay. You can cut out numbers from velvet or plain paper, old newspapers or magazines, fabrics and stick them on.

For plasticine figures there is a wonderful manual - Plasticine account. It will teach a child to sculpt a number and help to remember it by creating an illustration for it from plasticine.

Numbers by cells

It is necessary to paint over the cells, as in the sample, and get numbers from 0 to 9.

Finders

Cards with numbers are laid out on the table. The child receives a card with a number. You have to find yours.

Pantomime

The adult draws a number in the air with his finger, and the child guesses it, then they switch roles.

Laughers

By drawing or drawing, the figures turn into “little men”, “animals” or other funny figures.

Gymnastics by numbers

An adult offers (squat, jump) to a child as many times as the number indicates. nine0003

Find the mistake

The child is shown two cards. The kid needs to determine whether the image of the number on one card matches the number of circles, triangles or objects on the other card.

Memory with numbers

The child examines cards with numbers and memorizes them. The adult swaps them. The kid points out what has changed. If any card is removed, the child guesses which number is gone.

Tangram “Numbers”

Sensorics will help you remember writing numbers: write numbers, mold from plasticine, lay them out from buttons, pompons, figurines, sticks ... Here are the numbers from the tangram. nine0003

More tangram tasks here.

Coloring pages for numbers

You can take coloring pages with numbers and invite your child to color them. The child will be interested in creativity, and at the same time consolidate knowledge about the new figure.

Here: Print out the number coloring tasks.

So that the process of coloring does not bore the child, you need to use various interesting techniques for this