Number Beanbag Toss
In this activity, throw a beanbag at a numbered target and help improve your preschooler's number recognition skills.
Create a Rainbow of Healthy Food
Make a Healthy Foods Rainbow! In this activity, your child will color a rainbow, glue on colorful fruits and vegetables, and keep track of which healthy super-foods she eats throughout the week.
Learn to Count with Pompom Number Toss
What can you do with an old ice tray, some colorful pompoms, and your child? Learn math! This fun number game puts your child's brain to work as she learns to recognize numbers, count, and add!
Play Shape and Seek
When your child is itching for a game, consider ditching Hide and Seek in favor of Shape and Seek. Here's how it works:
Matching Shapes Game
In this fun game, your child will be challenged to find matching shapes. She'll work to sort them and she'll boost her visual perceptual skills along the way.
Play Egg Carton Shake!
Strengthen your child's understanding of numbers while improving her reaction time and critical thinking skills with this fun game using an old, empty egg carton!
What's in the Bag? A Classification Game
The cat's out of the bag! Or is it the book? Or the shoe?... You'll have to play this guessing game to find out! Not only is this game a hoot, but it helps teach kids to categorize a set of objects-- a key skill for preschool.
Make Beaded Candy Cane Ornaments
Decorate your Christmas tree with beaded candy canes made by your child. This activity teaches your child an AB pattern which is essential for learning number patterns.
Homemade Beads: 3 Ways
Stringing beads is a fun way to give boredom the boot. Plus, it helps kids practice a key skill...patterning. You can buy a sack of beads at any craft store. But here are 3 inexpensive ways for kids to make their own beads, from scratch.
Make Number Rubbings
Kids love using crayons. Put their art streak to good use by introducing them to "rubbings". They'll work the small muscles in their hands and eye-hand coordination, plus experiment with different surfaces while they practice their numbers.
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