I have been looking for more fun ways to practice some numeral recognition with W and I think this mini-skittle game is something he will really enjoy. It is a great way of up-cycling some old yoghurt drink pots too. First I painted the empty pots with a 50:50 mixture of paint and Mod Podge glue. When dry I attached a polystyrene ball to the top with craft glue. Then I simply added some googley eyes... ...drew on faces and finally painted each with a number from 1 to 6. Now we are ready to roll! We will probably use a small bouncy-ball as our bowling ball. I am hoping for W, ...
Teach Your Toddler Numbers With The Hungry Caterpillar!
Following the success of learning shapes using peg monsters, I devised a very similar game for learning numbers with the boy. Although he seems pretty good at counting I am not sure how much he recognises actual numerals yet so I think this might help. This time however we made a very hungry caterpillar. This we constructed in exactly the same way as the peg monster. Here is how to do it. First paint a wooden clothes peg green and allow to dry. Stick two googley eyes to a red pom pom to form the head. When the peg is dry coat one side with glue and stick on your head and some smaller ...