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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
      Shapes and patterns
      Use a pen to trace over these shapes and patterns? Can you name them too?
      Age: 3-4 years
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    • Monster portraits
      Monster portraits
      Finish these portraits of the monsters by tracing over the lines.
      Age: 3-4 years
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    • Under the sea
      Under the sea
      Draw some legs on the octopus and waves in the sea, all whilst practising pen control.
      Age: 3-4 years
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    • Little letters
      Little letters
      Copy over all the lower-case letters of the alphabet.
      Age: 3-4 years
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    • Monster body parts
      Monster body parts
      These monsters are pointing to a part of their body. Can you name and trace the word?
      Age: 3-4 years
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      Farm machine word practice
      Practise your writing by labeling these farm machines.
      Age: 3-4 years
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    • Sam's supper
      Sam's supper
      What's Sam making for supper? Practise writing and sounding the letter 's' with this activity.
      Age: 3-4 years
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    • Monster fishing trip
      Monster fishing trip
      Help the monsters to fish for objects with different starting sounds.
      Age: 3-4 years
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    • Elephants on parade
      Elephants on parade
      Nine elephants are on parade. Finish their heads with the letter 'n' while saying the sound.
      Age: 3-4 years
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    • Monster circus
      Monster circus
      Can you help the monsters add starting and ending letters to their words?
      Age: 3-4 years
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    • Penguins in the park
      Penguins in the park
      Spot things in the penguin park beginning with the sound 'p-u-h' and draw a 'p' on the parrots.
      Age: 3-4 years
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    • Monster junk shop
      Monster junk shop
      Each monster wants to buy something beginning with a particular sound. Can you help them?
      Age: 3-4 years
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    • Making words
      Making words
      See if you can blend the sounds together to make words.
      Age: 3-4 years
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    • Jaguar jazz
      Jaguar jazz
      These jaguars are jamming in the jungle. Can you make the sound for the letter 'j' and draw it on their instruments?
      Age: 3-4 years
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    Counting

    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
      Counting strawberries
      Can you help the fairies to count the strawberries?
      Age: 3-4 years
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    • Counting spots
      Counting spots
      Help frog to read the numbers and count the spots.
      Age: 3-4 years
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    • Counting your money
      Counting your money
      Can you help these monsters count their birthday money?
      Age: 3-4 years
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    • Pirates on deck
      Pirates on deck
      Help the pirates to count the rats and trace over the numbers.
      Age: 3-4 years
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    Numbers and first adding

    These activities will give your child practice writing numbers, and doing simple sums too.
    • Numbers 1 to 10
      Numbers 1 to 10
      Trace over the numbers and count the squares.
      Age: 3-4 years
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    • Monster favourites
      Monster favourites
      Here are the things that these monsters like best. Count them and trace the numbers.
      Age: 3-4 years
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    • Spike's house
      Spike's house
      Practise adding on 1 by adding things to Spike's house.
      Age: 3-4 years
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    • Starting to add
      Starting to add
      Trace the bee's route as it visits the flowers from 1 to 10.
      Age: 3-4 years
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    Creative play for preschoolers

    Here's some fun ideas for creative activities to do with your child - and they all use things you probably have around your home.
    • Necklaces
      Necklaces
      Use pasta or beads to make necklaces.
      Age: 3-4 years
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    • Water painting
      Water painting
      Can't face the mess of painting? Here's a great alternative.
      Age: 3-4 years
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    • Sticky fun
      Sticky fun
      Toddlers can't handle scissors yet but they'll love sticking faces and shapes onto paper.
      Age: 3-4 years
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    • Face painting
      Face painting
      Toddlers love seeing themselves transformed!
      Age: 3-4 years
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    • Make and build
      Make and build
      Reuse cardboard boxes, tubes and plastic bottles with these ideas for things to make and build.
      Age: 3-4 years
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    • Playing with dough
      Playing with dough
      Rolling, squeezing, pummelling or making shapes, here are some tips on how toddlers can play with dough.
      Age: 3-4 years
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    • Fun with paint
      Fun with paint
      Here are some fun ways to paint that don't involve a paintbrush.
      Age: 3-4 years
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    • Drawing
      Drawing
      Introduce toddlers to the concept of drawing with these fun ideas.
      Age: 3-4 years
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    Online early learning activities

    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.

    Discover the Quicklinks

    Phonics Readers

    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.
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