Imagine learning how to write numbers with your fingers by running them through grains of cereals or pulses! Learning how to count numbers by actually participating physically in the process can be a fun way to learn, and children will enjoy doing the same:
Suitable For:
This activity is designed for children between two and four years of age, as they can learn how to write numbers and count in an interactive and fun way:
What You’ll Learn:
1. Emotional Regulation – As children participate in this activity, they will learn how to write numbers using sensory experiences. It can stimulate their senses and reduce their anxiety levels since they will be manually performing the learning related activity.
2. Number Recognition – Children will also learn how to recognize numbers as they get hands-on experience about the ways to write numbers correctly and spell out their names.
3. Fine and Gross Motor Skills – Moving objects from one place to another can help improve the gross and fine motor skills of children. The reason behind this is that it requires a lot of hand-eye coordination as they perform this sensory number writing activity.
4. Exploration and Creativity – Engaging in the sensory number learning activity can allow your children the opportunity to learn how to write numbers and recognize them using unique methods and experiment with their senses. It also lets them explore their creative skills as they delve into this activity.
5. Emotional Development – Encouraging your children to participate in this activity can help develop their social and communication skills. Furthermore, it can reduce their anxiety levels and transform them into better global citizens in the future.
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Material Required:
1. Cardboard Sheet: Keep at least one big cardboard sheet ready for preparing the cardboard bits (cutouts) required for this activity
2. Mobile Phone Stand: For placing the cardboard sheet cutouts (bits) with numbers into the slot contained in it for reference purposes.
3. White Colored Trough: For dropping pulses or cereals of the color yellow into it for this activity.
4. Whiteboard Markers: For writing different numbers on the various cardboard sheet cutouts (bits)
The Procedure for Preparing:
1. Prepare the cardboard cutouts –
Keep a cardboard sheet ready for this activity that should be cut into huge cutouts that are big enough to accommodate a number on each of them.
2. Set up a trough containing cereals –
Add some cereals or pulses to a white colored trough for use as a base for this activity
3. Lay the main groundwork for the activity –
Set up a wooden mobile stand with a huge slot in it in front of the trough in which you should insert the cardboard cutouts bearing different numbers each time you want your children to try writing a new number that is displayed on each of them. Let your children perform the activity by running their fingers through the cereals or pulses contained in the trough to draw each of the numbers manually.
4. Ask your children to participate –
Place every cardboard cutout bearing one number each, one at a time, inside the slot provided on the wooden mobile phone stand in front of the trough. Let your children draw the number they see on each of the cardboard cutouts by running their fingers through the cereals or pulses contained in the white trough.
5. Review and Repeat –
When your children complete one round of the activity, encourage them to perform the activity yet again till you are certain that they have mastered it completely.
Writing numbers using printed activity books is now a thing of the past. Learning using sensory experiences is a much better way to learn how to write numbers, since it is an interactive and enjoyable way to learn how to write them. Once your children have completed this activity successfully, they will have learned not only how to write numbers but also how to count.
