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Numbers, letters and counting activities for young children
Very young children learn best in a playful, hands-on environment. Here's some downloadable and online activities to help them practise essential first skills.
Pen control and first letters
Copying shapes and patterns and tracing over letters all help your child learn to write and develop pen control.
Shapes and patterns
Use a pen to trace over these shapes and patterns? Can you name them too?
There are lots of opportunities to practise counting with your child as you put away shopping, or the laundry. Here are some fun activity sheets to download too.
Counting strawberries
Can you help the fairies to count the strawberries?
At Usborne Quicklinks you'll find links to lots of carefully selected websites with counting, reading and writing activities to do with your child, and more advice for grown-ups on helping children learn their first skills.
Help your child learn to read with our popular phonics readers – delightful rhyming stories featuring unicorns in uniforms, skunks in trunks and more, many with online audio, too.