“Your child is having a hard time with his numbers. Please work on numbers and counting at home.”
Oh great. Just what you want to read as you pull his papers out from his folder from day care. It’s dinner time. You’ve got a cranky one year-old who is raiding the pantry for a snack. And now you’re supposed to be working on number recognition with your 4 year-old.
Ok let’s give this a try.
You call your preschooler into the kitchen while you starting boiling water on the stove top. You start thinking how about how in the world you are going to teach him his numbers. You write a zero on a piece of paper. He calls it the letter O. You write a 7, and he calls it an L.
Does he realize we’re working on numbers?
You need to not get frustrated (which you are!). You need something to make this easy. You need something self-correcting. You need to stop thinking about the Easter eggs you have to send into day care tomorrow and focus on this situation. You NEED to make dinner.
Stay sane. Get dinner on the table. Make a game out of learning numbers. Or wait, PRINT a game.
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Easter Egg Counting
We all know how it feels to be frustrated when our own child isn’t catching on to skills that seem simple (well to us anyway!). Activities that are super simple to set up, or just print out, can make these kind of frustrating times a little less stressful.
The great thing about this Easter egg counting printable activity is that there are 2 versions and one is self-correcting that works on counting first and number recognition second!
When your child is learning numbers, breaking it down into smaller sections at a time, will help set your child up for success. This means that throwing all the numbers 0-20 at your child when he cannot identify 2 numbers, will lead to a frustrated child…and a frustrated parent!
The Easter egg printable number activity includes the numbers 1-5. Some of my preschoolers, who are 3 and 4 years-old, are able to identify numbers 0-5. Some know 0-10. A few can even identify 0-20.
But there are still preschoolers who can identify no numbers. Preschoolers develop academic skills at different stages, so all of the above situations are normal.
How to Stamp & Play
The 2 versions of the printable counting activity include Easter eggs with numbers printed inside them. One version includes just the numbers in the eggs.
The other version includes small circles to visibly show the number. This second version with the small circles help encourage one to one correspondence and accurate counting, which will lead to figuring out which number is printed inside each Easter egg.
Print out the Easter egg counting activity. Grab stamps. I bought the set pictured in the Easter holiday aisles. You can also grab fun Easter, spring themed stamps from Amazon too! You can also use markers, stickers, or Do-A-Dot markers.
Have your child add the correct number of stamps to each egg. Practice pointing and counting to the stamps to double check his work.
If your child is struggling with this activity, print out the second version. Have your child count out loud each circle that is stamped. Encourage your child to name the number in the egg at the end of stamping and counting.
Download the EASTER EGG COUNTING PRINTABLE ———–> {HERE}
Play with stamps today and try stickers next time you print the Easter egg counting activity! A simple change like that will make the activity inviting again!
So now that your preschoolers is working towards mastering his numbers, how about another printable game to work on letters and beginning sounds? Egg themed of course!
And your toddler needs our Magnetic Egg game to play with while you cook instead of raiding the pantry!
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