Springtime is fun – the days are warmer and the children feel happier. One idea is to set up a large spring picture on a wall or using powerpoint on a whiteboard, with a tree, pond and field. You can add frogspawn, tadpoles, frogs, blossom, spring flowers, etc as the season changes and as the children learn about them. Attach them with a tacky substance so that you can move them about and change the number of each of them on a weekly or daily basis.
Ask the children to count the number of butterflies, daffodils, tadpoles, lambs, ducks and caterpillars.
Each day or week change the numbers in the picture and ask them to count again.
Download the free worksheet from this blog and when the children are confident, ask them to complete it.
If you like this activity there are more in our book called Springtime Activities for the Early Years.
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