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Number Path Learning to Count Activity

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Activity for learning to count and number order that works for crawlers, walkers and preschoolers. Great rainy day activity for indoor days with kids.

Children are capable of learning so much through play and their everyday interactions with you at home. I love working in learning activities into our daily life to encourage my children to learn and explore at their pace in a low-stress way. This number path learning to count activity can be used for crawling infants, walking toddlers and preschoolers. It is one of those kids activities that work for multiple ages.

To create the number path, you only need 3 supplies. For children who learn best with gross motor activity, this is a great one-and so simple-to try.

How to Make the Number Path Learning to Count Activity

Supplies:

Construction paper, 5 pieces

Marker

Tape (masking or clear packing tape)

 

Make it:

  1. Cut pieces of construction paper in half.
  2. Write one number on each piece of construction paper so you have numbers 1-10 written.
  3. Tape the numbers onto the floor in order with a little bit of space in between each paper.

Activity for learning to count and number order that works for crawlers, walkers and preschoolers. Great rainy day activity for indoor days with kids.

For crawlers and toddlers, you can keep the pieces of paper closer together since their movements are not as big. For preschoolers, to make the game a bit more of a gross motor exercise, leave more space in between the numbers and your child can try to jump to each number.

Activity for learning to count and number order that works for crawlers, walkers and preschoolers. Great rainy day activity for indoor days with kids.

When you tape the numbers to the floor, you can put a couple pieces of tape on the back of each paper, or tape the edges down completely to prevent younger ones from pulling up the numbers.

You can see my toddlers eventually did start pulling up the numbers from our number path learning to count activity. They just helped me clean it up!

Activity for learning to count and number order that works for crawlers, walkers and preschoolers. Great rainy day activity for indoor days with kids.

As they walked along the path, I let them go at their pace first. I told them they were walking on numbers and pointed to each one, counting in order.

Activity for learning to count and number order that works for crawlers, walkers and preschoolers. Great rainy day activity for indoor days with kids.

When they walked the path in reverse order, I counted the numbers in descending order.

walking backwards on the number path

With my older two, we had the number path on the floor for a few days. With the twins, it lasted about 20 minutes. J This learning to count activity is so easy to create, and you can use scrap pieces of paper if you do not have construction paper.

If you like this idea, try the Sensory Walkway for infants and toddlers. Both are great activities for a rainy day at home with kids.

 

What is your favorite simple learning to count activity to set up for your child?

Activity for learning to count and number order that works for crawlers, walkers and preschoolers. Great rainy day activity for indoor days with kids.

 

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April 9, 2016 by Jaimi Erickson 9 Comments Filed Under: activities Tagged With: counting, gross motor, indoor, infants, math, numbers, preschool, toddlers

Comments

  1. SillyFunMomma says

    April 19, 2016 at 7:00 am

    I love this! Great idea!

    Reply
    • Jaimi says

      April 19, 2016 at 9:04 pm

      Thanks so much!

      Reply
  2. Heather says

    April 12, 2016 at 7:45 pm

    Clever idea! I have twins and an older child as well, and have had plenty of the same sorts of experiences where the two team up to take something apart 🙂 Thanks for sharing this week on the Everything Kids party!

    Reply
    • Jaimi says

      April 15, 2016 at 8:55 am

      They do like to team up for destruction at times, don’t they? 🙂 They make the days interesting. Thanks for stopping by!

      Reply
  3. Lady Lilith says

    April 11, 2016 at 9:25 pm

    This is such a great idea. After your kids can count forward and backwards, you can mix the numbers up for a fun review.

    Reply
    • Jaimi says

      April 15, 2016 at 8:57 am

      That is a great idea for older kids. I love it!

      Reply

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