In this house, playing with your food is encouraged; especially when it helps with learning!
This Pumpkin Pie Counting Paper Plate Activity is perfect to help kids get excited about Thanksgiving, number recognition, and counting. All in one activity.
Last week I got Mila’s first preschool assessment. Overall, she did amazing! Sometimes I forgot that she’s only three and a half because she’s so smart and social. It makes me so proud to be her mom.
These assessments also gave me an idea of what we need to be working on at home.
One thing I’m not good at are numbers. Math definitely wasn’t my favorite subject in school, so sometimes I forget to add it into our play.
In her assessment, she counted to fifteen and only recognized a few numbers. I know she can count to 20, but I honestly didn’t know about her letter recognition skills. So, that’s what we’re going to try snd do more of.
Since the holidays are right around the corner and we’re excited for pies, I thought this activity would be perfect.
All you need for it is:
- Paper plate
- Orange, white, and tan paint
- Scissors
- Cotton balls
To make the pumpkin pie paper plate, you first need to paint it. I used tan paint for the crust and orange for the filling.
The orange took me two coats of paint and three for the tan.
Next, I cut the plate into eight slices and wrote the corresponding numbers on them with white paint.
After it was all dry, I added some decoration to make it more sparkly for Mila and gave her cotton balls to count with.
She had a lot of fun counting the cotton balls, but I saw her work out the different numbers in her head too.
It was amazing to see that even if she didn’t know the number at first, she would count around to figure it out. Hopefully the more she sees them, the more she’ll know!
Either way, we had fun pretending it was a pie and eating it too. I love how fun learning is with her.
What are some ways to help kids with number recognition?
Grey Skies & Rainbow Highs 
I’ll have to try this with my daughter!
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Let me know how it goes 🙂
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This is so cute! I love this idea, and the way it turned out. Thanks for sharing this!!!!
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Of course! Thanks for seeing it.
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Such a fun idea to incorporate math into a fun creative activity!
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Most definitely love adding educational aspects in play.
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This is such a cute counting activity. I love how you decorated the pie too.
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Thank you so much. We love a little sparkle.
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Love this activity! Can’t wait to have my kiddos try it!
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Thank you!
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I love this activity, such an easy way to teach my kids to count their numbers.
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Thank you. Mila enjoyed it. We love r ways of learning.
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this is a very creative idea. great thinking.
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Thank you!
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such a fun and easy idea to do at home
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Thank you so much. It was fun!
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I’m going to do this activity with my twin daughters! They are four.
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They’ll have a blast with it.
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What a fun math activity and simple to set up as well. My son loves numbers so he’ll be happy to play this game.
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I hope he did love it!
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This is such a great activity. Will have to try with my little ones x
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Hopefully they loved it as much as Mila did!
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