Looking for a farm themed activity to teach kids basic math concepts? Playful Farm Animals Hand-on Math for Kids is a fun game to teach preschoolers and kindergarteners addition or subtraction with counters!
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Farm Animals Hands-on Math Game
Supplies:
- Farm Animal Counters
- Craft Stick Fences (see how we made it HERE)
- Play Dough
- Two Dice
How to Prep:
To prepare this activity an adult will need to make and/or set up craft stick farm fencing. Check out our Big Red Barn Literacy Activity to see how to make the farm fencing. To set up the fencing use little pieces of play dough to stand six or more fences to make a rectangle or hexagon.
Then set out at least twelve farm animal rainbow counters and a two dice before inviting children to play and learn!
How to Play:
The object of this activity is to show preschoolers or kindergarteners how to add numbers in a hands-on way. To play this game is really simple, children will roll the two dice and count out the numbers using the farm animal counters. Then place the farm animals into the fence. Next the child will count all the farm animal counters together so they understand that adding the two numbers rolled gives them a new number.
After playing with this addition activity, young children will also love playing with the fences and farm animal counters to create their own farm small world scene.
Literature Extension
Books are a great way to extend the activity by learning more about apples! Here are some great children’s literature to incorporate into this activity!
Looking for more apple activities? Check out these amazing 25 farm activities for kids from toddlers to early elementary age!
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Count and Graph on the Farm // Sara J Creations
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Farm Animal Puzzles // Powerful Mothering
Farm Play Dough Activity // Mom Inspired Life
Farm Washing Sensory Bin // Coffee Cups and Crayons
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Interactive Farm Book // Mrs. Jones’ Creation Station
Gross Motor Farm Game // Modern Preschool
Farm Animal Sorting // Still Playing School
Farm Fence Number Ordering Mats // Fairy Poppins
Farm Letter Sound Matching Clip Cards // Schooling a Monkey
Making Farm Footprints // Pleasantest Thing
Farm Muffin Tin Syllable Counting Game // The Educators’ Spin on It
Farm Themed Old Maid // Stay at Home Educator
Farm Emergent Reader // The Letters of Literacy
Playful Farm Animals Hands on Math // Stir the Wonder
Farm Busy Box // Teach Me Mommy
Farm Animal Ten Frame Cards // Preschool Inspirations
Farm Addition Cards // The Stem Laboratory
Interactive Math Addition Book // DIY Farm Wife
Farm Animal Sentences // (Not Pictured) The Simplified Classroom
Old MacDonald’s Farm Busy Bag // (Not Pictured) Adventures of Adam
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Those fences are a brilliant idea and those animals are just too cute!