Water Bottle Number Match-Up (Extended Version)

MD still has difficulty with numbers and counting.  He can identify numbers 0-10 except for 6 and 7.  Those he cannot remember for some reason.  After we finished our number crafts we finally began doing the Water Bottle Match Up and Marble Game using numbers 0-10 but he still has difficulty with the larger numbers so I help him out a lot.

He really enjoys putting the marbles in the bottles and screwing the lids on to shake them.

Number Crafts: Ten

We finally arrived at number ten.  This is the last number craft and MD had a lot of fun with it. 

Painting bubble wrap and pressing it on the number to paint it. 

Then adding glitter glue over the paint.

And glued ten little green beads under the number.

Zeros to Heroes

This was another fun learning activity for one to one correspondence.  First we talked about zero again and practiced clapping, 2 times, 0 times, etc. thanks to Montessori Moments for the idea.  MD is really getting the hang this now and he especially enjoyed using the firemen as counters. 

After this we also played around a little and counted the chocolate chips on the chocolate chip cookies I made out of construction paper which have the number symbol written on the back.  These quick cutouts were inspired by the wonderful and cute felt food counting cookies at Counting Coconuts which would have been much nicer to have around. 

Apples to Numbers

I showed MD how to place the correct number of apples on each number and count them.

Then I allowed him to do it himself. 

The concept of  zero was a little difficult, as expected.  He did one through 3 very well.  Then he had difficulty with number four because he kept wanting to give one of the apples from number four to the zero. 

Overall this was a fun use of my kitchen decorations!