To review all of the numbers, colors and shapes we learned as we went through our Letter of the Week curriculum, I made some fun review games! Note: If you missed it, don’t forget to do the A-Z Review also!
Number Review:
Clothespin Number Review: Write numbers on mini-clothespins and then have your child clip them on to the correct number of dots!
1-10 Number Sticker Sheets: This download includes numbers 1-10. You can put stickers in each square or laminate it and re-use over and over with any manipulative of your choice!
Number Word cards: This download comes with the letters in the boxes like below and for more of a challenge I also added blank cards for each color word as well. Your child can match up letter tiles to each number word card. The letter tiles are included in the download as well, but you could use any letter manipulatives you want to spell the words. Includes 1-10 number words. The word tiles come color coded to help younger children, for more of a challenge you can download my black and white letter tiles.
Number Dot Cards: You can use these a few ways, simply count the dots and say the number, use a fun manipulative like mini-clothespins or pom-poms. You can also use dry-erase marker to trace the numbers.
Chicka Chicka 123 Cards: We cut out these small numbers & add them to our alphabet tree as we are learning them.
Variation: Laminate and use as play-doh mats, or cut out and use as number lacing cards!
Number Collage Worksheets: 0-9 worksheets are included. Glue something on each one, color them, put on the correct amount of stickers based on the number, whatever you can think of!
Number Tracing: You can either use with pencil/crayon etc, or laminate and use with dry-erase. We chose to put stickers along each number just for fun.
Number Hopscotch: Pick any letter’s Large Floor Numbers and play hopscotch!
- Call out numbers in random order and have your child hop to it.
- Have your child put the cards in numerical order.
- Put them in random order on the floor and have your child hop to them in numerical order.
Dice Number Game: This is mainly an assessment for number recognition and counting. You can either use with a dotted die or one with numbers on it. Simply roll your die and circle the correct number in box 1, then roll again, and circle the correct number in box 2 and so on.
Number Magnet Pages: I had a reader ask for some number magnet pages, so here they are. Hope you like them!
Assessment Tests: I use these with bingo markers or Do-a-Dot Art Markers. The download includes A-Z, a-z, 1-20 assessment sheets. I call out a number and she marks it. This is an excellent way to assess what your preschooler has learned from this year, and what you still need to work on!
Shape Review:
Shape Play-doh Mats: Laminate these shape cards and use them as shape templates for your play-doh learning time! Variation: Lay the cards out and have your child find objects that are the same shape and place them on the correct shape card.
Patter Block Patterns! I haven’t found any pattern block patterns, just the picture cards, so I made some for our shape review.You can purchase Wooden Pattern Blocks
Shape Tracers: You can use this a few different ways! This download includes 10 shape tracing cards.
- Laminate and use with dry-erase to trace the shape/word
- Cut out shapes for scissor practice
- Color or trace with crayon/markers/paint
- Place stickers along the edges of each shape
Shape Puzzles: Cut out each shape, then cut in half along the dotted line to make shape puzzles.
Shape Sorting: I used my Shape Cards from the Letter of the Week curriculum, and had we sorted our Large Buttons onto each shape card. You can also use the Color flashcards from the Letter of the Week as well for color sorting.
These cardboard puzzles came from Wal-mart. They were just a couple bucks for 4 of them. They include numbers and shapes along with some fun animal ones as well!
Shape Silhouette Match Up: Cut out the colored shapes, and match them to their corresponding shape on the outline game board.
Color Review:
Paint Brush Color Matching: This is a file folder Game I made for color matching. Instructions are included in the download, but you can see here how it’s set up:
Color words: This download comes with the letters in the boxes like below, then your child can match up the letter tiles to each card. For more of a challenge I also added blank cards for each color word as well. Both are included in the download along with colorful letter tiles, but you could use any letter manipulatives you want to spell the words. Includes 8 color words. The word tiles come color coded to help younger children, for more of a challenge you can download my black and white letter tiles.
I left the color words whole and just had her match them up. Later when she’s more advanced I’ll cut the letters apart and have her match them individually.
Color Puzzles: Simply cut out each square, then cut in half along the dotted lines to make into a color matching puzzle.
Color Mixing: Using these cards, we made up some colored water and then used smaller scoops to mix based on each card. You can see more here in my blog post:
Mama Jenn’s Color Mixing: Mama Jenn made this fun printable for a fun color mixing activity! Click here to see instructions and how we did it.
My First Color Book: If you didn’t already make this fun little book, here it is again! After printing, simply fold the 4 sheets of cardstock with color words on them in half and staple them down the center. I attached a colored piece of ribbon to each page according to its color. Then let my daughter cut out the images and glue them on each page based on its color word. (We did a couple pages per day depending on her attention level.) Afterwards we read through the book together!
Shades of Color (to be used with paint chips): This is a simple file folder game I made to work on matching different shades of colors. Click here to see the post for more details. You can download my color grid here, and I used a 1 1/4″ square punch to punch the colors out.
Zebra Domino Game: This is from our Letter Z week, but its a great color matching and logic skills review! I made these cards in several different color combination’s so you can play a fun game of domino’s that’s on a prek level. Simply match up the zebra colors next to each other to play the game.
Fun color matching puzzles from 1+1+1=1: I like this one from Carisa because it includes the color words!
Family Fun Night! Have an Numbers party! Using a jumbo 6 spot muffin tin put: 1 cup of milk, 2 grilled cheese sandwiches (1 cut in half), 3 colby cheese chunks, 4 grapes, 5 pretzels, 6 chocolate chips. Watch Leapfrog Math Factory!
Congratulations! You’ve completed the Numbers, Shapes and Colors review for my Letter of the Week curriculum! If you missed it, don’t forget to do the A-Z Review also!
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Thanks for all the downloads- they are brilliant and very inspiring. I do have one tiny suggestion though; please can you include the number zero in your number stuff. My eldest (who is now
learned to count to 10 etc before she was 2 (infact when she was about 1 and a half she was convinced that it went "1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10, hurray!" because she always got a round of applause when she got to 10). Anyhow, when she started doing simple addition the number zero suddenly appeared from nowhere and it really threw her, she just couldn't get the number zero into her own personal mindmap of how numbers work. Since then with kiddos 2 and 3 we have always included zero in any number work we do so it doesn't just turn up out of the blue.Thanks again for all the hard work!
TUMMYMUMMY: Hi, I do include zero on several games in my Letter of the Week downloads, it's not on everything, mostly because I was trying to save printing extra pages to fit it on! LOL!Thanks for the suggestion though, I'll try to be more diligent about adding it in.
These are all wonderful. I can't wait to get some prep work done for the next couple of weeks while my husband's gone for business. I'll need lots of ideas to keep us busy
Hi. I'm an avid lurker on your blog and I LOVE it and all that you do! I think you are a true supermom! I, however, am not! I want to know how you get your kids interested in doing these activities. I'll spend countless hours on this and other kind of hands-on materials but my son is extremely passive and frankly, he would rather just play with his toys. He just turned five and I also have a 2 1/2 yr old girl who doesn't have much of an attention span so it's hard on both fronts. I'm curious how long your school day goes and how much other type of playing they do, such as with toys. I think our house is a toy store and I imagine it's very distracting, to say the least. Again, thank you for maintaining this blog (I truly don't know how you do it all), as well as sharing your ideas and materials!! Love in Christ!-Rhonda
Rhonda: We average 4 hours per day with the older kids and about 2 hrs with my preschooler. But my preschooler joins in with us for our Expedition Earth activities, so she really does more, but that's only because of her older siblings! Here's a link to our schedule: http://www.confessionsofahomeschooler.com/blog/tag/our-schedule
Hi Erica!I was just wondering if you thought about doing numbers up to 20? I love using the number page for my daughter but wanted to go up the number scale.Thanks, Serena (hyrena@yahoo.com)
Serena: Yes, I was thinking about it, we count up to that all the time with our calendar and such, but I'll get on it. Do you have any game you want it for specifically? I did the number dots at the top of this post.
Thank you for sharing all your great printables! Blessings,EilisGrowinginPrek.com
Thank you so much for sharing all your great printables! Blessings,EilisGrowinginPreK.com
I am officially obsessed with this blog post!! Thanks!
HadarMiss Kindergarten
Erica, you have these great number cards we’ve been using but I cannot remember where they are located here. I can’t part with ours, they are laminated and well used, so I was hoping you can point me to where they are.
Example of the cards, You have a picture with three fish and then you have the numbers on the side 4,2,3 from which my daughter counts and chooses the corresponding number. These cards have made our morning commutes a grand learning experience and I want to share it with friends.
Thanks again for the wonderful work you share and for inspiring so many moms to take on teaching with fun, creativity and passion.
Monette: They are the Clothes Pin Number Cards here: http://www.confessionsofahomeschooler.com/blog/2011/01/clothes-pin-number-cards-k4-prek.html
That’s it!
Thanks so much! These have made such a difference with teaching my daughter her numbers. You are such a blessing! My friend is going to love them as well!
You’re welcome, I hope you have a great year!
I just love this blog!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HI! I’m loving these number games, etc.!! BUT, it says the files have been deleted when I go to download. Are they not available anymore? Thanks for all you do….so those of us who are creatively challenged do go BERSERK!;)
Renae,
Please try again. I am moving files off of 4shared and I missed a couple links. Sorry about that. Let me know if you have any more issues and with which files. Thanks!
I love these! They are awesome!!
Katie
Teachers Ask, Teachers Tell
you have awesome ideas! I don’t know how you find the time so let me know if you have any tips. I have a 1 and 2 year old and feel like I have no time!
I love your site! Thanks so much!
See this post for some ideas I did with your printables! I am new to blogging, so don’t laugh!
http://neighborhoodfriendschool.blogspot.com/2011/09/math-shelves-for-camp-friend-school-in.html
Thanks a lot for all the GREAT downloads! I love to make things like this too, but have yet to create a blog. I’m sure it took you a long time to create these activities, so thanks soo much for sharing them for free!
I love your site and thank you so much for all the freebees they will be well used in our class!
Just found your site. I love your ideas for preschool age. I just became a certified Montessori Teacher and noticed alot of your materials and work are similar to that of the Montessori philosophy. Just curious if you used Montessori as a guide for homeschooling. Great ideas!
Thank you for the ideas… and sharing so many wonderful PDFs. We homeschool… and have 4 wonderful children. Our son has Down Syndrome and is working on PreK and Kindergarden subjects… Sometimes it isn’t always so easy to MAKE everything he needs to work on… (or find it, cut it out, blow it up and laminate it…) around appointments. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU !!
Thanks so much for these ideas! There are so many activities here that I look forward to using.
I love this site! Love to grab activities for my 3 1/2 year old son to do. Here is a link to your 1-10 number sticker sheets and other activities we grab…
http://theuncommoncomptons.blogspot.com/2012/01/prek-activity-day-numbers.html
I just LOVE all of these ideas! So simple and so good!!! Thank you!!!!
Wonderful items here! I’ve been searching for a while for some good number and shape activities! Thank you so much for being so kind to share these! Love it all!
Congrats!!! Your Play-doh mats and website link has been featured on http://www.wordsofhisheart.wordpress.com. I truly think I could print off all your ideas, and I would not have to create anything else until all my Littles are older. Alas, but it is so much fun creating my own! The way you incorporate fine motor etc. into everything is an extra blessing for me since my 5-year-old has Down syndrome and I’m always trying to multi task with him. Thanks so much!
Blessings,
Alyson