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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.
- Turn a number into sensory art – perfect for the 100th day of school!
- Go on a hunt for numbers and match it with the same number!
- Follow a number from start to finish in a maze.
- Trace numbers, really big!
- Little Family Fun created a parking lot with numbers.
- Pop! Find the number and pop it!
- Find and match playing cards.
- Have target practice with water balloons and numbers, like Motherhood on a Dime
- Make art! Do this paint by number canvas art.
- Use stickers and printable number cards to play hide and seek, from Teach Mama.
- Draw and paint over numbers with q-tips, like Toddler at Play!
- 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.
- Connect the dots! A simple past-time activity that reinforces the order of numbers.
- Upcycle a box into a puzzle of numbers!
- Create a maze of numbers to drive through. Can they count their way to the end?
- Stacking up boxes and counting how high you can go!
- Make a craft together with multiple pieces. Have your child do the counting!
- Count cars of a particular color while on the road, or semis, or vans, whatever suits their interest!
- 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!
- Let your child run an experiment and measure how much something holds! How many cups fit?
- 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.
- Use friendly animal crackers to practice counting and number recognition, like I Can Teach My Child.
- Measure objects (or yourself!) and count how big they are, from The Imagination Tree
- Count objects around the house. No Time For Flash Cards wants to know “How many doors do you have?”
- Play any board game, or make your own! Little Family Fun creates a fish race game!
- Count with LEGO! Do Play Learn likes to label a paper with numbers and count out the LEGO next to it.
- Snack time! Use dice and fruit snacks and play until you eat them all up, like Kids Activities Blog.
- 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.
- Head out into nature and explore flowers. Count and compare flower petals!
- Go on a hunt for a number and match it to its corresponding dots.
- Build towers of blocks on a number mat, with the correct number of blocks high!
- Spark your child’s interest with their interests! A farming approach of loading grain bins with the corresponding number of pieces of “grain.”
- Have a newspaper throwing game and count up the newspaper balls, or how many you make, or miss!
- Make something in the kitchen together, or do an experiment and let your child measure out and do the counting.
- Sort through objects by color, and count how many you have of each!
- Fill a dump truck with objects (like Dominoes!) and count how many you can fit in there, like Inspiration Laboratories.
- Estimate first for some fun and then count item, from Teach Preschool.
- Have a counting race in the front yard and pick dandelions in the process!
- Roll a die (or two!) and practice one to one correspondence as kids build towers with blocks.
- 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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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?
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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.
Follow my Counting Pinterest Board for more great ideas!
Summary of classes in mathematics for senior preschool age. Theme of the lesson: "Number and number 9" | Plan-summary of a lesson in mathematics (senior group) on the topic:
Abstract of a lesson in mathematics for senior preschool age. Theme of the lesson: "Number and number 9"
Author of the lesson:
Purpose:
Create conditions for getting to know the number and number 9.
Tasks:
Introduce the number and number 9, teach to correlate the number of objects with the number.
To develop mathematical speech, the skill of oral counting within 10, the ability to work independently.
To cultivate the ability to listen to other children, to form a positive motivation for learning.
Lesson type:
Learning new material.
Equipment:
Interactive whiteboard, presentation, Peterson workbooks, handout.
Course of the lesson:
Organizational moment, psychological mood
The sun has risen for a long time,
Looked into our window,
Urges us to the lesson -
Mathematics now.
(showing the 1st slide)
Checking basic knowledge
Name the geometric shapes that make up these funny chickens. (1 slide. Show and name the figure)
Connect the number and the number of objects. (2 slide)
Match the number and the number of items.
What is the largest number from the data, the smallest.
Number series
(3rd slide)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
count to 10 and back;
how is 10 different from other numbers?
count from 9 to 6, from 1 to 8;
name the next (for) number 8, 5;
name the previous (before) number 10,7;
What is the number greater than 6 but less than 8, 3 and 5?
what number is to the left of 10, to the right of 8?
name the neighbors of the number 8.
Trap
Examples with errors are written on the board.
Children are asked to correct these errors by giving reasons for their answer.
3 + 2 = 6
8 - 4 = 5
7 - 1 = 5
7 - 7 = 2
6 + 2 = 7
5 + 1 = 7
stay with us in the winter and do not fly away to warmer climes.
What do we call them? Wintering. Name some wintering birds.
How many pigeons came for us to feed? (4 slide)
8 pigeons arrived. And then another one flew in and they became? 9.
Today we will get acquainted with the number and number 9. We meet our birthday girl.
(5 slide)
Formation of knowledge in practice
What does the number 9 look like?
Where do we meet the number 9? (Number, on the clock, the ninth month of September, May 9 - Victory Day. Is there a 9th day of the week? Why?)
How can I show the number 9? Write, draw, lay out from sticks, mold from plasticine. Let's turn the number 6 and get 9.
Show the number 9 from plasticine (on the tables at each plasticine blank).
Circle the number with your finger. Remember the spelling of the number 9. Writing in the air.
(Slide 8-10)
Composition of the number 9
Components when added. Has something changed from changing the places of the terms?
Fizminutka "How are you?"
You will answer each of my questions in a friendly chorus: “That's it!” and gesture to show the necessary actions. (Fizminutka is repeated twice).
How are you?
Are you going?
How do you run?
Do you swim?
Looking forward to dinner?
Are you following?
Are you sleeping in the morning?
Are you naughty?
Consolidation of knowledge in practical activities
Work according to Peterson's notebook. Determination of the place of the number 9 in the number series. Prescribing the number 9.
Differentiated task
Group 1 - independently solve the examples that Pinocchio brought.
8 + 1 =
1 + 8 =
9 - 8 =
9 - 1 =
Group 2 - work on the board.
Compare the numbers that Pinocchio wrote. Put the sign "" or "=".
Final reflection
What number have we met? How many items are represented by this number? How to get the number 9?
Synopsis of GCD "Number and number 5" | Plan-summary of a lesson in mathematics (senior group):
Municipal budgetary preschool educational institution "Kindergarten of a combined type No. 28"
Development of a summary of a lesson in mathematical development
Theme "Number and number 5"
Compiled by Zhabina Irina Ivanovna
Novomoskovsk, 2019
The goal is to introduce children to the number and number 5.
Tasks:
1. Continue to learn how to compare adjacent numbers within 9 and understand the relationship between them, correctly answer the questions “How much?”, “Which number is greater?”, “Which number is less?”, “How much is the number ... more than the number ... ”, “How much is the number ... less than the number .
..". Introduce the number 5. Develop the ability to see and establish a number of patterns.
2. Develop speech, memory, thinking, attention, imagination, fine motor skills of fingers.
3. Cultivate the ability to listen to each other, curiosity.
Type of lesson: learning new knowledge and skills.
Form of occupation: group, individual.
Duration: 25 min.
Participants: teacher, pupils.
Age of students: senior preschool age (5-6 years).
Equipment and materials.
Demo material. White plastic ball ("snowball"). Three-strip typesetting canvas, 22 white circles (“snowballs”), a picture of a glove on the right hand, cards with numbers from 1 to 5, a picture - a sample (ice house), flannelgraph, 14 strips for a house.
Handout. Two-strip cards, triangular and quadrangular ice cubes (20 pieces for each child), sheets of paper, colored pencils, cards with numbers from 1 to 5, sets of counting sticks.
Preliminary preparation.
Learning to count within 10, familiarity with the designation of numbers from 1 to 4. An exercise in equalizing the number of items in sets in two ways (by adding or subtracting one item).
Methods and techniques of working with children: visual (visual demonstration of a sample, method of action), verbal (explanation, conversation), practical (work with handouts), game (simulation of a game situation).
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Lesson structure:
| Stage of class | Content | |
| 1. Introduction | 9 Determination of the purpose of the lesson, game exercise "Count further." | 3 min |
| 2. Main. | Actualization of children's ideas about numbers within 9based on comparison of two sets. | 19 min |
| 3. Final. | The educator thanks the children for their active participation, analyzes and evaluates the results of the work done, the emotional state together with them. | 3 min |
Formation of knowledge about the number and figure 5. Solving a logical problem. NOD progress:
1. Introductory stage.
Greeting ritual:
Good morning! (fingers greet)
The day has begun!
First of all, we drive away laziness (wipe the palm along the outer side of the arm)
Open the eyes wider,
Listen and remember (the ears were massaged in a circular motion)
We don’t waste a minute.
Working diligently (fists)
Listen carefully!
Let's join hands, pass a beautiful smile and good mood to each other in a circle.
I wish you to learn a lot of new and interesting things today. Listen to the riddle:
Powdered the paths,
Decorated the windows,
Gave joy to children.
And a ride on a sled. (Winter).
Winter is a wonderful season. Children do not want to go home from a walk, because the street is interesting. You can ski and skate, play snowballs, build fortresses out of snow. I invite you to a snowy town where you can not only play, but also have fun counting.
Game exercise "Count further" (with "snowball").
The teacher, together with the children, stands in a circle and explains the rules of the game: you need to name any number (up to 9) and pass the "snowball" to the neighbor, who calls the number following the named number (7 ... 8, etc.).
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2.Main stage.
Game exercise "Building a snow fortress".
The work is organized on a three-strip typesetting canvas. The teacher suggests building a fortress out of snowballs.
Educator. Count 6 snowballs on the top strip, and one more on the second strip. How many lumps should be counted? (7) .
Why? (Because seven is more than six by one).
Children lay out 6 and 7 lumps on the first and second strip, respectively.
Educator. On the third strip, count the lumps one more than on the second. (Similar questions are asked).
Children place 8 lumps on the third strip, respectively.
What numbers can be used to indicate the number of lumps on each strip? What can be said about the number seven? (Seven is more than six by one and less than eight by one). So we built a snow fort.
Game exercise “Playing with ice floes” (working with handouts on two-strip cards at the tables).
Educator. Find triangular-shaped "icicles", count on the top strip of the card one "icicle" more than the number 8. How many ice floes did you count? (9). Why did you count 9 ice cubes? (Because nine is more than eight by one). Count on the bottom strip of the card the quadrangular "icicles" one less than on the top strip.
How many ice cubes did you count? (eight). Why did you count 8 ice cubes? (Because eight is less than nine by one). Equalize the number of "ice" in any way. (Children either add or subtract one “icicle”). Explain how you equalized the number of ice floes.
Caretaker.
We were playing with snowballs and ice and our hands were cold. How can we warm them up? What do we put on our hands in winter? (Mittens, gloves).
Game exercise "Gloves" (acquaintance with the number 5).
Looking at a picture of a glove.
Educator. How many "houses" for fingers does the glove have? (Five). Find the number that represents the number 1. (Child places the number 1 over the "house" for the thumb).
Similarly, the "houses" for the index, middle and ring fingers of the glove are indicated by numbers. The teacher shows the number 5 and explains that this number can denote the number 5, places the number 5 on the "house" for the little finger.
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Children call the numbers in order.
Educator. Take sheets of paper, circle your palm. (Children circle the palm with colored pencils.) Count how many fingers. (Five). Arrange the corresponding cards in order - numbers from 1 to 5 above the fingers and name them. (Children follow the instructions of the teacher).
Dynamic pause:
Finally winter has come, (children spread their arms to the sides)
The houses have become white (fold their hands like a house above their heads)
Snow on the street is on the street, (move with hands from top to bottom)
janitor Street, (imitate)
We ride a sled, (squat, hands stretch forward)
We write circles (slowly circles)
deft cross-country skiing, (imitate)
And we play all the snowballs. (“Making” and throwing snowballs)
Game exercise “Building an ice house” (work with counting sticks).
There is a pattern on the board.
Caretaker. Look at the sample and build the same ice house with counting sticks.
(Children complete the task, one child on a striped flannelgraph). Now think about how you can shift two sticks so that the house looks the other way. (Children complete the task, one child on a striped flannelgraph).
3. Final stage.
Educator. Children, did you like our walk to the snow town? (Answers of children). What task was the most difficult for you? What is the most interesting? (Answers of children). You already know a lot, you know how, you were attentive, quick-witted, helped each other, so you did a good job with all the tasks. I am sure that you will always try as you do today.
References:
1. Kasitsyna M.A. Preschool mathematics. 3rd year of study. Educational and practical guide for teachers and parents.- M.: Ed. "Gnome and D", 2001.
2. Kolesnikova E.V. Mathematics for children 5-6 years old. Methodological guide to the workbook./ ed. 2nd, add. and revised).- M.: TC "Sphere", 2009.
3. Novikova V.P. Mathematics in kindergarten.
