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These FREE printable Counting Mats are a fun and colourful counting activity for pre-schoolers and kindergarten children to provide an opportunity to count out loud and develop number recognition.
What you will need?
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You will need numbers and Printable Counting Mats. We have laminated our counting mats for durability and to be able to re-use them in the future.
Click here to download and print: Printable Counting Mats
Let’s Play
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Some Ideas:
- Place numbers out into a number line from 0 to 10. Point at each number and count them out loud.
- Point and count out loud each picture on the Counting Mats and find that number on the number line.
- Talk about each number and different characteristics of the shape of the number. For example I would say the number 8 looks like 2 circles pushed together a bit like 2 donuts.
- Talk about small and large numbers, such as number 3 has less pictures than number 7 because it is a smaller number.
Let’s Learn
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Learning Opportunities
- Fine Motor Development
- Hand-Eye Coordination and Control
- Concentration
- Language development – counting out loud number sequence.
- Mathematics – number recognition
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I made up something similar to this years ago – I did it with tractors cars trains bicycles wheelbarrows aeroplanes …to this day we still use it for counting and BOYS seem to really connect with it …
Thanks for sharing yours! –
I will print off yours and see wether they have the same reaction… I will keep you posted!
Thanks for another great idea – I also like the sound of Fiona’s idea – sounds like something the boys would really enjoy.