Fun With Math!

This is a really fun math activity that our preschoolers have a lot of fun with.  I have made this game from a cute notepad/shaped post it notes.  I put numbers on the fish sheets then laminated them so they last (lots of little fingers wear them out fast!).  I have a bucket of ocean animals to put on these fish shapes.  Children learn to recognize the written number, count objects to that number, and learn that a number means something.  Oh!!  The most important part...  it is FUN :)

I have several of these games.  I find a lot of the little pieces at the dollar store or Walmart/Target clearance.  One of the favorites here is putting mice (rats from Halloween) on a chunk of cheese (a piece of yellow paper cut into the shape of cheese). You can make some of these at home using buttons or beads(be careful of choking), plastic spoons, pennies, etc.  Anything can be used for this.  

It is really easy to do this at home as well!