Ideas to teach numbers

Numerical bottles

Print and laminate some numbers.

Fill a bottle with rice or peas or sand.

Let children look for the numbers in the bottle.

Prepare a chart for children to write the numbers they find.

Tactile numerals

Make numerals with different play dough

Make numerals using rubber bands
Make numerals in a box with salt
Make numerals with shaving cream on a tray

Make numerals with seeds on a tub

 Dominoes crackers

Make these dominoes with crackers and dulce de leche (or peanut butter) and cheese cream. Use chocolate chips for dots.

Pastry numbers

Use the square pastry you usually use for making “pastelitos”. Spread butter on it and then add sugar. Roll the squares and fold them to make the numeral you are working. Paint the figures with eggs and add sugar. Cook them in the oven. Talk about numberCounting with your hand

Ask the children first count on their fingers and show the number with their fingers. Give each child a paper cut hand and count the amount of fingers to represent the number. Ask them to bend the remaining fingers down and glue them, and then glue the hand on a piece of paper. 

Counting with your hand

Ask the children first count on their fingers and show the number with their fingers. Give each child a paper cut hand and count the amount of fingers to represent the number. Ask them to bend the remaining fingers down and glue them, and then glue the hand on a piece of paper.

Musical numbers

Before hand write numbers from 1 to 10 in several geometrical shapes. Spread them all over the floor number side down. 

Play some music. Invite the children walk around the room

When the music stops, they stop on a shape and pick it up. They have to say identify the number they land on 

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