I had written about sneaking in sight words matching in our yarn wrapped heart craft. Today I am sharing about sneaking in number recognition and counting in a painting activity. Its a Math + Art activity. Isn’t Valentines day math art activity fun? It is very simple to set up!

Valentines day math art activity!

Material needed for this math art activity:

1. Tempera paint
2. Index cards / printer paper
3. Toilet roll
4. Marker

Method:

1. I cut the toilet roll to a size that my preschool could hold and flattened it. Pushed one crease  inside to make a heart shape.
2. I did not have index cards handy. So cut the printer paper into four. Those were my number cards. Made 10 such paper “cards”. Wrote numbers 1 to 10 on them with a marker.
3.  My daughter took a number card from the pile. She read out the number and used the toilet roll to stamp same number of hearts in it.
4. She stamped on all number cards.

Now we have beautifully stamped number cards. She was using her “hand crafted” number cards. She was arranging them in order, counting the hearts. I believe she was proud of her number cards.

You may be interested in our other Valentines day literacy activities.

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