Christmas Math- Number Recognition

I found this great website that describes Four Preschool Goals for Math.

Colors and shapes

• knows about colors and shapes
• identifies 6 colors
• identifies 4 shapes

Create a two-piece pattern

• creates and understands two-piece patterns

Compare objects

• uses words to make comparisons (bigger, biggest, smaller, smallest, heavier, heaviest, etc.)

Counting

• Can count to 20
• Can count a group up to 8 objects
• recognizes numerals 1 - 10

I have used these goals to help me plan out some Preschool Math activities this month. I figured that using Christmas as a theme can make anything fun-- even math.

Here is our first game:

Number Recognition 1-20

Do you recognize this? It is an empty Christmas ornament container.

I cut out the numbers from 1-20 using green and red paper and taped them to the bottom of the container. To play the game, D stood a few feet away from the box and tossed an object (we used dice) into the box and he had to name the number with the dice.
Variations:

Younger children:

Color Recognition

Leave off the numbers and just put different colors in each square.

Older children:

Addition

Write down the numbers and add them up.

More or Less

Throw two dice into the box and figure out which number is larger or smaller.