This maths game combines crafting, turn taking and a bit of science as well as the chance to work on counting and number ordering. It’s easy to create the materials for the game and you can adapt it to suit whichever set of numbers you’re working on – or make a set with letters if you . . . → Read More: Go fish maths game
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Make a set of number ladybirds, add in some stickers and have some counting fun. Taking a child’s passion and using it to practise a new skill works really well. I know a child who *loves* stickers – that simple process of peel and stick, peel and stick, gives them immense satisfaction! So I thought I’d use . . . → Read More: Counting ladybirds
What? Repeating patterns are everywhere: in fabric designs, buildings in your neighbourhood, in the songs that you sing. Any sequence of colours, shapes, actions that repeact twice or more become a repeating pattern. Why? So what have repeating patterns got to do with your children’s play? Well, by looking out for . . . → Read More: Maths games: repeating patterns
A thrifty tip for free toys: collect the lids off your milk bottles and jars. Wash them, dry them and give them to your children and see the creative ways they use them. (Make sure you don’t give very small children lids so small they could be a choking hazard.) My girls . . . → Read More: Games using bottle tops You can make maths much more fun if you mix in some songs and imaginary play. Today we’ve been counting backwards and singing ‘Ten in the Bed’. First we took a cardboard box and used some fabric scraps to make a bedsheet, pillows and blanket.
Then we made 10 little people and . . . → Read More: Ten in the bed game Why not? …. add some bubbles to your water play today and set up a carwash in the garden? Include some washing up sponges and scrubbers and get your trikes sparkly and clean. And how about giving the children a purse with some coins so they can count out and pay for . . . → Read More: Preschool car wash  |
   
                    
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