https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/numicon-guide-for-parents/
https://www.tinytap.it/activities/gzm9/play/monster-numicon-counting-made-easy
https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/kids-activities/fun-maths-games-and-activities/ This www has some interactive games to play and also some printables if you want to try some pen and paper activities.
Many of these games are tablet friendly https://www.topmarks.co.uk/Search.aspx?Subject=16&AgeGroup=1
Skiddle in the sink – Use recycled plastic containers such as yoghurt pots, varying sizes of milk bottles, etc with a pan for an exploration of capacity at the kitchen sink. Add food colouring if you have any. Ask your child, how many pots it takes to fill the pan? talk about full, half full, empty. If you have plastic tea set, use this to find out how many cups you can fill with the teapot.
Do some cooking/baking – Make sandwiches and cut out shapes with biscuit cutters. Make iced biscuits/fairy cakes and decorate with sweeties.
Make salt dough – 1 cup of plain flour
Half cup of salt
Half a cup of water
Make whatever you want. Cook on lowest heat for 3 hours, on a baking sheet. Then paint.
No cook playdough – 2 cups of flour
2 tablespoons oil
Half cup of salt
2 tablespoons cream of tartar
One and a half cups of boiling water
Food colouring
Put a wash on – Colour sort the washing and count the items as you throw them into the machine.
Measure washing powder / what can we smell?
Set the machine and watch it whirl around.
Hang out the washing.
Match the socks together
Outdoor colour hunt – Give your child a piece of paper with all colours on. You could colour splats on the paper using crayons. Go on a hunt outside drawing and sticking things to the paper that match the colours. Lots of talk afterwards about what they found and shades etc. Then maybe move onto some colour mixing.
Playing shops – Get some food and other items out of the cupboard and set up a shop in your living room. Together, you and your child can price each item using paper tags (numbers to 20 or beyond.) You can take it in turns to buy items from the shop, adding the numbers together to get the total. You could model writing a receipt for the items. Pay with either real money or make your own paper coins.
