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Egg carton number matching game

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Earlier this year XGirl learned to identify all of her numbers from 0 through 10. This egg carton number matching game was one of the activities I put together to help her learn her numbers.

Note: For more activities, resources, and printables for teaching numbers, see my math activities for kids page.

Egg carton number matching game: an activity that promotes counting, number recognition, and fine motor skills || Gift of Curiosity

For this activity, I had an egg carton that I labeled with numbers. (Our egg carton was red, but of course you can use a plain egg carton for this activity as well.) I also punched a small hole into the top of each egg holder. (A nail would be the perfect size for the creating the holes.)

I also had several pipe cleaners that I had cut down to about 3″ each. At the top of each I created a little flag with different numbers of dots.

Egg carton number matching game: an activity that promotes counting, number recognition, and fine motor skills || Gift of Curiosity

The goal of this game was for XGirl to count the dots on each flag and then place the flag into the hole with the matching number.

Egg carton number matching game: an activity that promotes counting, number recognition, and fine motor skills || Gift of Curiosity

Fine motor practice, counting, and number identification all wrapped up in one simple activity that she can do over and over. 🙂

Egg carton number matching game: an activity that promotes counting, number recognition, and fine motor skills || Gift of Curiosity

More ways to teach to numbers

More number posts from Gift of Curiosity:

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You can find more ways to teach numbers on my Math Activities for Kids page and my Learning Numbers Pinterest board.

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3 Comments

  1. Anna

    November 17, 2014 at 10:50 am

    I’m thinking this might be fun with golf tees as well! My daughter would get very frustrated with the flexibility of the pipe cleaners but still needs to work on the fine motor skills this game would require. She is learning Braille as well so I could see how we could adapt this game for that skill as well.

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    • Katie SG

      November 17, 2014 at 11:34 am

      What a great idea for adapting this activity! I agree that golf tees might work very nicely.

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  2. Mackenzie

    November 19, 2014 at 1:52 pm

    This is fabulous – and so easy to be adapted to themes / seasons too, it’s wonderful. Thanks so much for sharing – I’ve pinned!

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