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24 Number 4 Activities for Preschool Children

September 7, 2022 //  by Kaitlyn Townsend

While these activities were selected with the "number 4" in mind, most of these activities will work for any number. These math skills are also geared towards busy toddlers, but may also be used for remediation or reinforcement for younger grades.

In this activity, kids pick their favorite matchbox car and trace the number by staying on the road using a printed or homemade learning board. After some practice, you could also have students use paint on the matchbox car wheels and try to make their own road. This activity builds motor skills, and writing skills and reinforces number recognition.

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Kids will love this hands-on math activity, and it's a great way to review counting skills after the summer, or reinforce them at the end of the year! In this fun counting activity, each construction paper "ice cream cone" is marked with a number, and students place the appropriate number of pompom "ice cream scoops" on top of the cone.

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This fun activity can be completed in a variety of ways--with a dot painter, with stickers, or even with inked thumbprints. It also reinforces math skills like number recognition.

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On this fun math sheet, students are challenged to find the number four in a field of numbers. You could also have students complete this on their own devices for a simple digital math activity.

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In this hands-on math project, parents can roll out several playdough numbers for their children. Then, they ask their child to find a particular number and smash it. The activity could be extended by adding letters, and other symbols or even asking the preschooler to make their own numbers.

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In this adorable reproducible book, children can color, cut out and paste fins, wings, ears, and more on the number 4 as well as the rest of numbers 1-10 and the alphabet. This is a great creative learning activity for little ones.

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All you need is some colored dot stickers, a marker, and butcher paper for this learning activity. After pre-writing numbers on the dots, children have to the correct sticker inside the number's outline. This fun hands-on activity is also great for developing fine motor skills.

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Similar to the previous activity, in this counting game, preschoolers must match up the post-it note with the Arabic number with the correct number of dots on the wall. This fun game could be extended to kindergarten children by making it into a race.

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Sing and practice counting to four with characters from the beloved children's show, Sesame Street, and singer, Feist.

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In this fun button activity, children are tasked with picking out four red buttons, or four small buttons, or...be creative with categories or change up the number. This hands-on learning activity could even be turned into some fun math art. This could also easily be turned into a shape sorter activity.

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Kids love counting activities that involve food! In this hands-on counting game, students place the correct number of goldfish crackers in each of the "ponds"--and get to enjoy a tasty snack at the end. This is a great way to reinforce counting up to four. Similarly, ponds could become different cookie shapes and students could count with chocolate chips.

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This simple puzzle is a great way to introduce the number 4, and what it looks like. Students can also get some motor practice by cutting up their puzzles ahead of time.

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These math manipulatives are great for students ready to take it to the next level. The set includes numbers 1-10 but could be introduced in pieces. Students have to match dice, pumpkins, tallies, and Arabic number together to form a pie.

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This fun number activity is wonderful for the spring. Students attach pipe cleaners to each sheet of paper and then string the correct number of beads on each kite's tail. This is a great way to practice counting skills.

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This math video from Smile and Learn teaches young ones to count objects, what 4 is called, how to trace it, and more. It's lots of fun for preschoolers, and a great way to introduce a new number.

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This hilarious and catchy song about the number four is such an entertaining way to reinforce basic math skills. In this fun math lesson, the song provides lots of familiar and unique examples of the number four.

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This slightly harder math worksheet is still a fun math game to reinforce 4. Students have to either find the number 4 or sets of 4 dots to get the frog across the circles.

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This counting printable is available for number 4, and all the other numbers 1-10. This learning experience combines a variety of activities and is a great way for students to practice several math ideas.

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This creative learning idea is an exciting way to wrap up a math lesson plan. In this fun counting game, bury foam numbers in shaving cream in a bin. As students discover numbers, they have to wash them off in a separate bin and then match them on a number line.

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This fun learning activity is great for the outdoors. Using chalk, draw a large outdoor number line. Then ask children to walk to number 4, or hop to number 1. This is a great way to introduce the concept of more or less, an important foundation of math.

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Discover math concepts in the real world! Outdoor activities for preschoolers are a great way to promote discovery and reinforce math skills. Go on a walk in the neighborhood or in the woods and ask students to find examples of the number 4 in nature (ex: groups of leaves, clovers, ducks, etc).

This colorful book by Ella Hawley is a great math picture book to add to a counting unit! It highlights the number four in everyday life. Children practice counting throughout the book.

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In the original activity, kids sort colorful shapes into matching ice cube slots. This shape sorter activity with ice cube trays can be easily extended for students to practice not only sorting geometric shapes but numbers as well.

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This letter matching activity facilitates children matching upper and lowercase letters by parking cars. Similarly, by changing the labels and "parking lot", kids could practice matching Arabic numbers to dots, groups of objects, tallies, and more.   This activity encourages child number recognition, an important concept for children.

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40 Awesome Number Activities for Preschoolers

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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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