Counting for Christmas

Christmas Counting

 

What You'll Need

Shape Puncher

Holiday Larger Cut Out Shape

Markers Envelope

During the Holidays, we can't get enough of counting or calendars to count down until Christmas. Although they are useful and help children learn numbers, days, I needed a project that really incorporated just counting.


I recently rediscovered all my old shape punchers from my 2 day vow to scrap book. I found one that was a larger star. I was able to create an easy template of a Christmas tree. You can really search for a holiday wreath, tree, shape on the internet and find many free templates.


I punched 20 stars and labeled each with a number. I also listed from left to right 1-20 on the tree.

In the morning, I set out the envelopes to talk about the numbers and try to recognize numbers. Then we looked at the tree with the numbering and began to place the stars that matched the numbers.

My 3 year old, just liked matching and her stars were upside down, sideways, etc.
My 5 year old would keep starting back at 1 and count through, to find which number came next.
Both were able to practice number recognition and order.