Marvellous Mark Making


• Ask children to trace the numeral with their finger. • Fill the tray with chai seeds, flour, sand or rice and using their finger or a twig, ask the children to copy their numeral in the tray. • Using loose parts (beads, rice, pebbles) fill the numeral. Use fingers (easy) or tweezers (harder). Great for fine motor skills.


Collecting Treasures


Go collecting sticks and stones, pine cones and sea shells, flowers and leaves. Let each child have their own number tray. As they collect say “four” things, let them put their treasures on a table; so that eventually they will have a collection of lots of “fours”. You could take a photograph of each child’s favourite collection and make your own natural number line.


Extend the activity • Ask them to look for their number…4 legs on a table, petals on a flower, buttons on my coat, etc. • Talk about one more, one less. Which of their friends has the one more tray, so five? Who has one less? • Talk about size. Find four tiny, miniscule, minute things. Find four big things you can fit in your tray. • Talk about similarities and differences. Find four things that are the same. What makes them the same? Size, colour, pattern? Find four things that are different. What makes them different?


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