Counting Cutouts

Counting Cutouts

Ages: 18 months- 5 years old

Supplies:
Glue stick
Scissors
Card stock
Marker/ pen
Googly eyes (optional)

Benefits: Hand/ eye coordination, counting, colors, animals.

Activity: 

Choose a theme: farm animals, under the sea creatures, shapes, types of transportation, fruits or veggies. 

Choose 5 different types of things from that category and give each thing a number. Example from above: 1 fish, 2 turtles, 3 crabs, 4 starfish, 5 shells. 

Cut out the number of objects associated with that number.

With the child, glue each piece to the paper starting with 1 and going up to 5. Mix up the pieces and have the kids pick out the shapes to encourage sorting, matching, and counting.
Draw faces and stick googly eyes to the animals.

Hang it on the fridge or in their room, and you can use this as a teaching tool in the future.

Modifications: 

• Ideas for categories: Fruit: apple, oranges, grapes, strawberries, lemons.                                                                            Transportation: bus, car, airplane, truck, boat                                                                                      Shapes: circle, square, rectangle, triangle, heart                                                                                  Farm: cat, bunny, duck, dog, chicken 
• If they are too small to glue the pieces on, have them hand them to you and they can watch you glue the pieces on the paper.