Early years number words

By following some simple recipes in this task, children can practise the skills of measuring and counting ingredients.

When playing in this mud kitchen, children will be using the language of size and capacity to choose utensils for different tasks.

Creating a 'Book of Four' provides an opportunity for children to collect groups of four objects and consider how the groups of objects are similar.

In this activity, the rhyme 'Ten Green Bottles' is used to encourage children to count backwards to work out how many bottles are left.

In this activity, children can practise reading numbers and counting items in order to help Owl pack for his holiday.

In this task, children will learn different ways of representing the same number.

In this game, children will use their addition and subtraction skills to keep track of the number of toys hidden inside a box when toys are added in or taken out.

When tidying away toys in this activity, children will use their counting skills to check that all the toys are in the box.

This task provides a real-life context for children to compare capacities in order to choose the biggest container for their lemonade.

In this game, children roll the dice and count how many steps to move the spider up or down the drainpipe.