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20+ Preschool Counting Activities for School and Home

March 10, 2020 by Sheryl Cooper

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Inside: It’s easy to put together preschool counting activities. I’m sharing over 20 math ideas that can easily be done in school or at home!

If you’ve been reading Teaching 2 and 3 Year Olds for awhile, you know that I prefer to teach concepts in ways that get young children excited about learning.

When children arrive at our preschool at the start of the year, their counting skills are at varied levels. Some can count easily to 5, 10, 15 or even beyond. Some can even read the numbers. However, many have not developed those skills yet.

Therefore, it’s important to provide activities that can be adapted to their different abilities.

Looking for toddler counting activities? Scroll down towards the bottom of this post to find activities that are perfect for them!

 

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20+ Preschool Counting Activities for School and Home

You might also like this post: Easy Ways to Build Math Skills at Home

 

Teaching simple counting can be quite easy when you provide activities such as the collection I’m sharing today. Watch your children’s excitement as you invite them to have fun with numbers!

 

  • Count the flowers with your own personal counting book (free printable).
  • Add counting mats to your play dough table for simple math fun (free printable).
  • Create DIY counting sticks for counting fun.
  • Learn how to count while singing 5 Little Speckled Frogs, from Let’s Play Music.
  • Create a button mural on your wall, from No Time for Flash Cards.
  • Add some color recognition to a counting activity using play dough.

20+ Preschool Counting Activities for School and Home

 

 

  • Download the free printable for a fun frog counting activity.
  • Put the puzzle pieces together to make a butterfly (free printable).
  • Make your own counting cards to use with simple games.
  • Count with seeds, from Teach Preschool.
  • Print out these dump truck number  mats for some block counting, from The Measured Mom.
  • Count buttons after reading this Pete the Cat book, from Frogs, Snails and Puppy Dog Tails.

 

20+ Preschool Counting Activities for School and Home
  • Use foam numbers while counting out food in a recipe.
  • Count and measure using Legos, from The Imagination Tree.
  • Use different sizes and colors of tubes with pom poms, from Laughing Kids Learn.
  • Make number bubbles on a mirror, from Mama, Papa, Bubba.

 

20+ Preschool Counting Activities for School and Home

 

 

  • Have a “beary” good time counting, from Toddler Approved.
  • Count the legs using a number line while making cute ladybugs.
  • Use pom poms to count while reading Ten Black Dots, from 3 Dinosaurs.
  • Sort and count apples on the light table, from And Next Comes L.
  • Make your own indoor hopscotch game with cardboard, from Happy Hooligans.

 

20+ Preschool Counting Activities for School and Home

 

 

  • Make number learning fun with this parking lot game, featured on B-Inspired Mama.
  • Count the seeds in the watermelon, from Playdough to Plato.
  • Read one of these counting books, from Buggy and Buddy.
  • Go on a counting walk, from Creative Family Fun.
  • Make a counting maze with chalk, from Hands On As We Grow.

preschool counting activities

 

More fun activities:

20+ Simple Sorting Activities

44 Outdoor Learning Activities

How to Teach Shape Recognition

Favorite Preschool Math Toys

 

Make sure to check out more ideas on my math pin board!

 

 

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About Sheryl Cooper

Sheryl Cooper is the founder of Teaching 2 and 3 Year Olds, a website full of activities for toddlers and preschoolers. She has been teaching this age group for over 20 years and loves to share her passion with teachers, parents, grandparents, and anyone with young children in their lives.

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  1. Jode@mummymusingsandmayhem

    September 7, 2014 at 12:45 am

    What a fantastic collection of fun ideas for learning without being to structured. Some of these shall be going into my program this week! Pinned 🙂

    • Sheryl

      September 7, 2014 at 6:47 pm

      Thank you, Jode!

  2. Deborah @ mommycrusader

    September 24, 2014 at 4:32 am

    These activities look fabulous! I can’t wait to try them with my own preschooler. Thanks for the resource. 🙂

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