Counting Cereal One by One

What You Need: 

• Cereal
• 3 small cups
• Plate
• Deck of cards

What You Do:

1. Gather your supplies.
2. Pull numbered cards out of a deck to use, and place the cups in front of your child.
3. Place cereal in a small, easy to reach pile on a plate.
4. Begin by placing a cup on a number two card.
5. Have your child count out two pieces of cereal into the cup.
6. Do the same with a number three and a number five card.
7. After these three rounds, return the cereal to the plate and the cards to the deck.
8. Then, have your child draw three cards from the deck and identify the numbers.
9. Place the cards under the cups, and instruct your child to count out cereal to match the numbers on the cards, placing one piece of cereal at a time into the cup.
10. Have your child count all pieces of cereal to find the sum.

Encourage your child to continue practicing one-to-one correspondence by counting as high as he can!