Rainbow Bead Counting Recreation for St. Patrick’s Day

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Need to train quantity sense and counting to your preschooler this St. Patrick’s Day? You’ll love this tremendous easy bead counting recreation for St. Patrick’s Day from Julie.

Counting with beads is a enjoyable, hands-on technique to help early math expertise. Assist your youngster construct a rainbow for the pot of gold, and apply quantity recognition, too!

For those who’re in search of extra enjoyable St. Patrick’s Day concepts, take a look at this checklist!

You in all probability have the supplies for this exercise round your own home already. Right here’s what you’ll want:

• one ball yellow play dough for the “pot of gold”
• one ball any colour play dough for the cardboard stand
• assorted color beads (affiliate hyperlink)
• dowels, picket skewers, or straws (sufficiently small to suit by the beads)
• number flash cards (affiliate hyperlink, or make your individual on index playing cards!)

To arrange this exercise, you’ll have to make a “pot of gold” with the yellow play doh. I simply made a ball and dug my thumbs within the center to create a bowl form. Then stick just a few dowels or straws upright within the play dough.

Set a separate ball of play dough to the facet to make use of because the stand in your quantity playing cards. Place the beads in a dish for straightforward entry for little palms.

If you wish to make your individual play dough, listed here are my favourite tips about how one can make home made playdough.

On the lookout for extra preschool counting actions? Try this concept for enjoyable with block counting!

How-To Play

You should utilize this easy set-up in tons of various methods. It simply is dependent upon what you wish to train your youngster!

We’re engaged on recognizing numbers and connecting them with the values they characterize. We performed two totally different video games with our pot of gold and rainbow exercise.

Bead Counting Recreation #1

First, we began with the “1” card within the play dough stand. I confirmed my little man how one can add just one coloured bead to every dowel. Then, we switched up the cardboard to the quantity “2” flash card. My son then added yet one more bead to every dowel to make a complete of two beads on every dowel.

We went as much as 5 beads with this recreation, including one bead to every colour each time. I at all times ask him to level to the quantity and hint it together with his finger to assist him keep in mind the numeral extra simply.

After we have been carried out with this recreation, we had counted every colour as much as 5, and practiced figuring out numerals as much as 5.

Straightforward and enjoyable!

Bead Counting Recreation #2

For the subsequent recreation we performed, I wished to provide my little man a bit extra free reign in his decisions. This time, I picked a quantity flash card at random to position within the play dough stand.

Our first card was a 4. After we recognized the 4 and traced it, I let him select 4 beads of any colour and place them on whichever dowel he selected. We repeated with one other card and one other.

I like this recreation as a result of it reinforces the idea of “higher than and fewer than.” When he added 5 beads at a time, the dowels stuffed up extra shortly than when he added only one bead at a time. He discovered that 5 is bigger than one!

For those who love this exercise, I do know you’ll love this quantity puzzle scavenger hunt.

You may additionally simply use this counting with beads exercise to show extra superior addition and subtraction, create patterns, or kind colours. It’s so versatile!

I really like having enjoyable with vacation preschool actions, and this St. Patrick’s day pot of gold bead counting exercise was a lot enjoyable!

What’s your youngster’s favourite quantity or counting exercise?