This activity was created by following the child's lead. I originally set up some home-made Playdough with some plastic knifes and forks to allow the child to simply explore the dough.
Whilst exploring the Playdough we used our imaginations to create different things e.g. rolling sausages then cutting them, making round biscuits and even a ice cream or two. So I thought about how to extend this to make the imagination go that bit further and added some cake cases.
Before you knew it we were filling all the cases with balls or Playdough and creating "cakes" and singing "happy birthday to you".
This is when I remembered I had some number shaped candles lurking about in one of the kitchen draws, so I quickly ran to get them and pressed them into the "birthday cakes" and said the correct number as I did.
"Mr 2yrs" soon recognised I was using numbers and tried to copy and name the numbers himself, he then continues to make more cakes and sing as loud as he could, once the song finished he would point to the numbers and try to work out which was which number - he did need correcting but soon discovered that if he pointed to the same one then he would be right by saying "umm 6"
A great visual activities for early numbers.
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