Strawberry Counting Activities for Preschoolers

This Counting Strawberry Seeds makes counting fun and exciting with a strawberry activities for preschooler! Easy-to-prep and perfect for both toddler, prsechool, pre-k, and kindergarten age studnets – this preschool strawberry craft can help a child learn and improve many important areas of development, like fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination and concentration. This strawberry preschool idea is such a fun preschool counting activities for summer.

Strawberry activities for preschoolers

Learning numbers and counting should be fun and exciting, especially for toddlers, preschoolers, and kindergartners! While numbers can get a bit boring at times, with this Strawberry Craft, chidlren 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 activities for preschoolers.  This is the perfect strawberry activity to use as a summer activity for preschoolers!

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.

Preschool strawberry craft

For this activity you’ll need:

• Cardstock (white, red and green)
• Gluestick
• Craft scissors
• Q-tips
• Washable kids paint (black)
• Pencil
• Black permanent marker

Strawberry Craft

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).

Counting activities for preschoolers

Now on a piece of green cardstock draw simple greenery for each strawberry using the pencil and cut out.

Preschool counting activities

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.

Strawberry Preschool

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.

Strawberry Activity

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!

Strawberry Craft Idea

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!