Number Words, Fine Motor Skills and Fun Animal Activities!

Most of us will agree that it is always easier to have our kids learn through fun activities, so today, we made a little activity board that consists of:

a. Number Word Scramble Cards - for C to learn number words by unscrambling the letters in each word. Velcro is stuck on the back of each letter so the letters can be removed, scrambled and attached again. Some of the number word cards are hidden behind the clothing fasteners so C was motivated to open up them up! It's like finding treasure!
b. Zippers, Velcro fasteners, Snap Buttons, Buttons, Safety Pins and Poms Poms (for Fine Motor Skills)

Number Word Scramble and Clothing Fastener Activity

To help C associate each number word to the correct number, each number word is attached to:

1. ONE - 1 zipper
2. TWO - 2 velcro fasteners
3. THREE - 3 snap buttons
4. FOUR - 4 buttons
5. FIVE - 5 safety pins (for looping through a pipe cleaner)
6. SIX - 6 poms poms (I placed the pom poms in a cut out egg tray)

C working on the zipper.

C opening up the velcro fasteners. 

Unscrambling T-W-O!

Snap Buttons.

Unscrambling T-H-R-E-E!

Buttons!

Looping 5 safety pins into a pipe cleaner.

Using tweezers to pick up the poms poms.

Unscrambling S-I-X!

If you are also keen on creating something similar, I've included a printable here: Number Words Scramble Cards.

Pipe Cleaners and Buttons

While I was setting up this activity board, C played with the pipe cleaners and buttons that were laying around. She discovered that the pipe cleaners can be fit through the little holes in the colourful buttons! It didn't occur to me that the pipe cleaners could actually fit! So C created her own little activity that was also great for fine motor skills!

They look like a vase of button flowers!

C is really happy with her wonderful creation
with pipe cleaners and buttons!

Animal Words and Craft Fun!

Animal Word Match Activities!

For the sea animals, I printed them out, cut them and attached them to magnets. C then matched the animals to the correct animal words pasted on the white board.

All done! :)

For the other animal word activity, I used clips that had cute animal faces on them. C then matched the animal clips to the correct animal words. This was a great way to learn about words as well as exercise her fine motor skills by using the clips.

C clipping the animals to their respective words.

Art and Craft Fun!

Here we have a couple of craft activities where C had fun decorating a whale and giving an octopus its tentacles. 

Whale activity for handwriting practice and craft fun.

Applying glue.

C decorating the blue whale with sparkling blue glitter!

Using pipe cleaners as tentacles for the octopus.

Sticking on the 8 tentacles.

The octopus is done!
It was also great counting fun!

Here's the printable activity: Animal Fun!

C had loads of fun learning with the activities above and hope you will also find these ideas useful! :)

You may also be interested in our previous posts related to:
- Numbers (Number Bonds, Odd/Even Numbers and Counting Activity!)
- Animals (Animal Cookie Recipe and Animal Classification Table)