This activity is a great way of visually showing amounts to 20. Use paint, counters, pens to match the numbers shown on each twenty frame.
Maths skills it can develop:
Number recognition
counting
matching
Areas of the Early Years curriculum it covers:
Personal, social and emotional development
Communication and Language
Physical Development
Maths
Expressive Arts and Design
Number of Pages: 1
These versatile number cards are an an excellent resource to have in the classroom. Each card is numbered from 1-10.
Maths skills it can develop:
Number recognition
Ordering
Matching
Counting
Practical and printable. Suitable for EYFS (Early Years), preschoolers, kindergarten, Reception, Nursery.
Have fun counting, ordering and comparing these spotted pictures from 0-10.
Maths skills it can develop:
Counting
Ordering
Practical and printable. Suitable for EYFS (Early Years), preschoolers, kindergarten, Reception, Nursery.
This activity combines mindfulness colouring with Early years maths skills. Practise counting and recognising numbers by rolling the dice and colouring the picture with the correct number on them.
Maths skills that could be developed:
number recognition
counting
Number of pages: 1
Get those little fingers building with this number stacking activity. Challenge children to build towers with the correct amount of cubes.
Maths skills it can develop:
Counting
Number recognition
Practical and printable. Suitable for EYFS (Early Years), preschoolers, kindergarten, Reception, Nursery.
Yes you can learn data handling in Early Years!
The graph is easy to understand with engaging pictures and works with small numbers. Children can have fun completing their graphs independently by surveying their friends or complete one in small groups or as a class. The activity is a brilliant opportunity to start exploring the results through adult questioning.
Maths skills it can develop:
Counting
Number recognition
Comparing
Have fun with this great Early Years maths tool. The two-by-five rectangular frames are an excellent way to practice counting to ten. There is a box provided on each frame to input your own numbers to allow for open ended exploration.
Maths skills it can develop:
Number recognition
counting
ordering
doubling
one more
Areas of the Early Years curriculum it covers:
Personal, social and emotional development
Communication and Language
Maths
Number of Pages: 1
The fun way to find one more and one less! This activity gives children the chance to work out one more or one less than a given number. There are 3 different pages provided for variation and the pages can easily be cut into strips for shorter, quicker tricky challenge activities. Children can solve each one by simply writing their numbers into the boxes provided, or for a more practical way to complete it , drawing, sticking, stamping marks into each box. This works well with learners struggling with the concept.
Maths skills it can develop:
Number recognition
Counting
One more
One less
Areas of the Early Years curriculum it covers:
Personal, social and emotional development
Communication and Language
Physical Development
Maths
Number of Pages: 3
Have fun with this cross curricular activity that introduces the concept of simple fractions and halving. Children can explore the concept of halving by cutting, colouring, painting half of each shape.
Maths skills it can develop:
2D shape recognition and properties
Halving
Areas of the Early Years curriculum it covers:
Personal, social and emotional development
Communication and Language
Physical Development
Maths
Expressive Arts and Design
Number of Pages: 1
Have fun counting, ordering and comparing these spotted elephants from 0-10.
Make early number recognition engaging with this elephant-themed subitising activity, perfect for learners in EYFS, KS1, and Pre-K to 1st Grade. Children practise recognising quantities at a glance by matching dot patterns (on elephants!) to numerals—supporting the development of strong number sense and mental maths skills.
This playful, low-prep resource is ideal for helping children build confidence with early maths concepts in a way that feels like fun, not work.
Ideal for:
Maths centres and small group work
Morning tubs and independent tasks
Subitising and number recognition practice
Early intervention and SEN support
Animal or safari-themed topic work
Encourage visual number fluency and quick quantity recognition with this adorable, hands-on subitising activity that young learners will love!
Maths skills it can develop:
Counting
Ordering
Practical and printable. Suitable for EYFS (Early Years), preschoolers, kindergarten, Reception, Nursery.
Yes you can learn data handling in Early Years!
The graph is easy to understand with engaging pictures and works with small numbers. Children can have fun completing their graphs independently by surveying their friends or complete one in small groups or as a class. The activity is a brilliant opportunity to start exploring the results through adult questioning.
Maths skills it can develop:
Counting
Number recognition
Comparing
Practical and printable. Suitable for EYFS (Early Years), preschoolers, kindergarten, Reception, Nursery.
The fun way to find one more and one less! This activity gives children the chance to work out one more or one less than a given number. There are 3 different pages provided for variation and the pages can easily be cut into strips for shorter, quicker tricky challenge activities. Children can solve each one by simply writing their numbers into the boxes provided, or for a more practical way to complete it , drawing, sticking, stamping marks into each box. This works well with learners struggling with the concept.
Maths skills it can develop:
Number recognition
Counting
One more
One less
Practical and printable. Suitable for EYFS (Early Years), preschoolers, kindergarten, Reception, Nursery.
The numbered art grid gives children the chance to get creative with how the count and make amounts to 10. Whether it’s drawing, painting, stamping or sticking, it is sure to get those creative ideas going. The numbered art grid works well across a range of topics and themes.
Maths skills it can develop:
Counting
Number recognition
Practical and printable. Suitable for EYFS (Early Years), preschoolers, kindergarten, Reception, Nursery.
Get those little fingers building with this number stacking activity. Challenge children to build towers with the correct amount of cubes.
Maths skills it can develop:
Counting
Number recognition
Practical and printable. Suitable for EYFS (Early Years), preschoolers, kindergarten, Reception, Nursery.
Have fun with this great Early Years maths tool. The two-by-five rectangular frames are an excellent way to practice counting to ten. There is a box provided on each frame to input your own numbers to allow for open ended exploration.
Maths skills it can develop:
Number recognition
counting
ordering
doubling
one more
Practical and printable. Suitable for EYFS (Early Years), preschoolers, kindergarten, Reception, Nursery.
Whether you are making stick puppets, enhancing your nursery rhymes or simply just brushing up on some maths skills, the duck family template is a great resource to cut out and get creative with.
Maths skills it can develop:
counting
one less
ordering
number recognition
Practical and printable. Suitable for EYFS (Early Years), preschoolers, kindergarten, Reception, Nursery.
These printable counting cards are an excellent way of practising number recognition and counting skills.
Maths skills it can develop:
Number recognition
Counting
Matching
Practical and printable. Suitable for EYFS (Early Years), preschoolers, kindergarten, Reception, Nursery.
These versatile number cards are an an excellent resource to have in the classroom. Each card is numbered from 1-10.
Maths skills it can develop:
Number recognition
Ordering
Matching
Counting
Practical and printable. Suitable for EYFS (Early Years), preschoolers, kindergarten, Reception, Nursery.
This activity combines mindfulness colouring with Early years maths skills. Practise counting and recognising numbers by rolling the dice and colouring the picture with the correct number on them.
Maths skills that could be developed:
number recognition
counting
Practical and printable. Suitable for EYFS (Early Years), preschoolers, kindergarten, Reception, Nursery.
Make the concept ‘more than and less than’ more visual for your learners with these crocodiles designed to eat the greater number.Children will enjoy exploring the concept as they, or the adult, place different objects or numbers in front of the crocodiles who only eat the biggest amount.
Skills it can develop
More than
Less than
Counting
Practical and printable. Suitable for EYFS (Early Years), preschoolers, kindergarten, Reception, Nursery.