Mushroom Counting Activity

Can the number of spots drawn on mushrooms teach your children how to count? The answer is an absolute yes! Simple and innovative, this mushroom counting activity can help your children learn how to count and also recognize numbers accurately:

Suitable For:

This activity is designed for children aged three and above, as they can learn how to write numbers and count in an innovative and fun way:

What You’ll Learn:

1. Basic numeracy – Children will learn how to count numbers, recognize, and name them correctly when they participate in this exciting activity.

2. Counting skills – Every time the activity is repeated, your children will learn how to count accurately, thus laying the foundation for grasping tougher mathematical concepts in the future.

3. Focus and concentration – When children try performing this mushroom counting activity, they will need to concentrate a lot on the tasks ahead of them. Thus, their focus and concentration levels will naturally tend to go up.

4. Dexterity – The hand-eye coordination of children improves along with their dexterity when they take part in this wonderful activity, since it involves moving objects from one place to another.

5. Confidence building – As your children engage in this activity, their confidence levels tend to automatically go up. This amazing activity can also help your kids develop a more positive attitude toward learning mathematical concepts in the future.

Material Required:

1. Cardboard Sheet: Keep at least one big cardboard sheet ready for preparing the cardboard base that is required for this activity

2. Tacks: For pinning them into the holes on each of the mushrooms to represent the number written on their left-hand side.

3. Watercolor Pens: For drawing the mushrooms on the right-hand side of the cardboard sheet cutouts (bits)

4. Whiteboard Markers: For writing different numbers on the various cardboard sheet cutouts (bits)

5. Scissors: For punching slots into the mushrooms according to the number they represent on their right-hand side and cutting the packing tape.

6. Packing Tape: For wrapping only the right-hand side of the cardboard cutouts.

The Procedure for Preparing:

1. Prepare the cardboard base –

Keep a cardboard sheet ready for this activity that should be cut into huge cutouts that are big enough to accommodate the image of a mushroom each, and a number on each of them.

2. Draw the mushrooms and numbers on the cardboard cutouts –

On the right-hand side of each cardboard cutout, draw a mushroom and write a number on its left-hand side.

3. Punch slots into the cardboard base –

Punch slots using scissors for inserting tacks into them for this activity. The number of slots you punch into each mushroom must correspond to the number written on the left-hand side of each of the mushroom drawings.

4. Wrap each cardboard cutout in packing tape on the left

Take the cardboard cutouts and wrap their left-hand portion in packing tape so that they can be used for writing numbers, erasing them, and rewriting them for each round of repetition of this activity.

5. Keep the tacks ready –

Take the tacks and keep them ready for insertion into the slots on each mushroom.

6. Ask your children to participate –

Encourage your children to insert the tacks into the slots on each mushroom according to the number written on their left-hand side.

7. Review and Repeat –

Every time your kids complete one round of this activity, encourage them to repeat it till you are certain that they have mastered it.

Number recognition and counting were never simpler! Every time your children repeat this activity, the better they will get at counting and number recognition. Challenging themselves to recognize numbers and count can make your kids better at their studies every time they participate in this activity.