I ran across this adorable bubble counting fish activity at My Montessori Journey and knew we needed a set of our own. While A refuses to learn her letters, she's proving to be a whiz at counting, so I'm trying to find engaging math activities appropriate for a two year old.
My Montessori Journey's fish are super-cute and sewn from felt, but I made these little guys out of craft foam from this template. After I cut each out, I glued-on a googly eye and wrote numbers 1-10 across their bellies. Then they were ready to swim! How come I've never thought of using these florist glass gems in a craft before?
To play, simply ask your child to place the correct number of bubbles above the fish's head.
Ten Little Fish
by Audrey Wood
I found the perfect book to go along with this activity! Ten little fish slowly disappear from the pages of this book, providing a countdown exercise that leaves one little lonely fish. That little fish soon finds a mate and they have - you guessed it - 10 little baby fish to be counted all over again. It's a simple, straightforward book that will reinforce the numbers 1-10. The computer-generated illustrations are bright and colorful... and full of bubbles!
I would never have thought of using them for bubbles. Great idea!
ReplyDeleteThis is a great idea! We love that book too.
ReplyDeleteWonderful idea - they really look like bubbles :)
ReplyDeleteThat is absolutely adorable! Thank you for sharing. I might get some fish ready and start using them for number recognition with Bridget.
ReplyDeletethis is awesome. and bless you for providing the fish template!
ReplyDeleteYou're so creative...we love all the Don and Audrey Wood books and this was one of Noah's favorites.
ReplyDeleteThis is great! I would not have thought to use them as bubbles either!
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ReplyDeleteThe fish are so cute and I love the idea of using the glass rocks. Abby has tons of these and is always using them for something.
How cute. I could see this being great for addition as well.
ReplyDeleteThese are crazy cute! I'll have to remember this when we do an ocean or fish theme.
ReplyDeleteThat is a great activity!
ReplyDeleteSweet and neat!!!!!
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing this idea. I hadn't thought of using the little stones as bubbles, but they kind of look like little bubbles. I've linked up to your post on my weekly favorites here: http://play2grow.blogspot.com/2011/02/weekly-favorites-for-february-20-2011.html
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Great book and even better activity!! Thanks for sharing it! Kerri
ReplyDeleteI really love this. It's definitely a great counting activity, but it's adorable too! Thanks so much for sharing! I think we're going to try this next week! :)
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