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This number printable can be used anytime of the year! Prep it for a St Patrick’s Day or nature-inspired unit in spring, a color-themed week in summer, to study the weather in fall or for learning to count in winter!
Other Printable Counting Centers and Worksheets
15 Sets of Spring and Summer Counting Clipcards – math and fine motor combined, just like in this activity.
Raindrop Counting Frames – works on similar skills and pairs well for a weather-themed week.
Bugs Graphing – get out into nature and explore while learning about graphs.
Rainbow Dot Number Mats Setup
For this activity you will need:
Paper
Printer
Small objects to use to form the numbers or fill in the ten frames – pompoms, buttons, cereals
Dot markers or dot stickers
Optional: laminator
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Playing This Fun Counting Game
Print out the mats you wish to use. I suggest laminating them for durability.
Place some small items in a bowl that your child can use to fill in the circles – pompoms, cereals, buttons etc would all make good items. Alternatively, you could use a dot/bingo marker.
In this printable, your child will learn about ten frames and one to one correspondence while strengthening their fine motor skills.
When my son did this, he used cereals which he ate afterwards of course 🙂
Learning Tools and Ideas to Extend This Activity
These rainbow mini erasers would be great to use during springtime. There are also bug erasers which you can use with this bug activity.
Encourage mindfulness as a follow on to this with the Count Your Rainbows Gratitude Journal.
If you used cereals, you could then move on to another fine motor activity like using them for threading or making cereal towers with spaghetti noodles and playdough. Enjoy!
