This Counting Strawberry Seeds activity makes counting fun and exciting! Easy to prep and perfect for both toddlers and preschoolers. This activity can help a child learn and improve many important areas of development, like fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination and concentration.
Counting Practice
If you’re looking for more counting activities for your kids, take a look at these!
- Silly Worm Count to 10 with Stickers
- Pom-pom Caterpillar Count
- Fruit Loop Ten Frame Counting Cards
- Counting Train using Post-It Notes
- Goldfish Counting Cards
- Number Weave
- Birthday Cake Playdough mats (counting)
Preschool Counting Activity
Learning numbers and counting should be fun and exciting, especially for toddlers and preschoolers! While numbers can get a bit boring at times, with this Counting Strawberry Seeds activity kids will be fully engaged and happy to learn. You’ll need just a short list of materials, a little prep and you’ve got a fun counting activity!
Along with learning numbers and their quantities, when doing this activity kids are also learning many other skills. Fine motor skills are exercised and improved as the child holds the q-tip with their fingers. Hand-eye coordination is improved as the child stamps the seeds onto each strawberry. Concentration, diligence and independency are also widely exercised with this super fun and easy-to-prep activity.
Strawberry Activity
For this activity you’ll need:
- Cardstock (white, red and green)
- Gluestick
- Craft scissors
- Q-tips
- Washable kids paint (black)
- Pencil
- Black permanent marker
Directions:
Start by drawing simple outlines of strawberries on the red cardstock (make each strawberry about 2″x 2″). Draw as many strawberries as you would like and using the craft scissors carefully cut out the strawberries (we did 5 strawberries).
Now on a piece of green cardstock draw simple greenery for each strawberry using the pencil and cut out.
Next, glue the strawberries and the greenery onto a clean piece of white cardstock. Number each strawberry with the black permanent marker. You can do simple numbers for toddlers such as 1-5.
Math Activities for Preschoolers
Prepare the washable kids paint and q-tips and you’re ready to go! Allow the kids to dip the q-tip into black washable kids paint and stamp the correct quantity of seeds onto each strawberry.
TIP- As you work with the child, have them name the number as well as count out loud. Counting out loud helps the child analyze, familiarize and memorize numbers!
Kids will have fun practicing counting to 20 with this fun, hands on math activity perfect for summer! Plus, it makes a cute summer craft at the same time!
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