counting games for kids – It's All Kid's Play

Count Clocks Game

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 13:00:00 +0000

How many clocks do you have in your house? You might be surprised where clocks are hiding. Does your microwave have a clock? How about your stereo? Coffeemaker? DVD player? Phone? Thermostat?

Do all the clocks agree with each other?

P.S. Daylight Savings Time begins today. Because it is almost spring and the days are getting longer, your clocks spring ahead by one hour. (In most places.) While you count the clocks, you can change their time, too.

Make this a family activity: Get everyone to guess how many clocks there are in the house, then go count them all. Who was the closest? Were there more or less than you thought there would be?

This activity promotes math skills and visual identification.

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Count the Pictures/Paintings in Your House

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:01:00 +0000

Look at the walls in your house. Do you have posters, pictures, or paintings on your walls? Count them! You can count pictures that aren’t on the walls, too.

Make this a family activity: Everyone counts and sees if everyone got the same number.

This activity promotes math and visual identification skills.

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Count Your Teeth

Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:11:00 +0000

Hey, how many teeth do you have? How about your parents? How many do they have? Your friends? Siblings?

This activity promotes counting skills and self-awareness.

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Counting Doors: A Counting Game for Kids

Sun, 18 Jan 2009 15:59:00 +0000

>Where are you? How many doors are there?

You can start by counting how many doors people walk through. Then look around a bit more carefully. What about closest doors? How many are there? How about cupboard doors? Everywhere you look, there are doors. Dryer doors, oven doors, maybe even a pet door.

How many are there?

This activity develops math and visual recognition skills.

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