Math & 123s
Move & LearnPreschoolers21 Comments
I taped out a maze on our floor with masking and painter’s tape.
To make it a number maze to practice counting, I simply labeled it with numbers, with one path being in numerical order. The rest were just random numbers.
I used the tape itself as the road of the maze (instead of between the tape lines).
By the way: this was the extent of George’s participation in the maze activity. Sitting on the maze.
Edited to add May 2014, seeing George plopped down in the middle of the maze reminds me of Louis during out activities now. It must be an age thing where they want to be a part of the activity, but don’t know how. I usually let him plop down in the middle and just move him around if needed to the older boys to do their activity. That’s as long as they’re all agreeable and not upset that he’s plopped down in the middle…
I made sure to include numbers that Henry wasn’t quite as familiar with (to fifteen).
He’s got 1-10 down pat, but starts getting confused at 13 (skipping to 16, then 19).
He also has troubles recognizing any double digit number, so this was great practice!
Henry grabbed his machine of choice, the combine.
And drove through the maze, in the order of the numbers.
As I suspected, he did need some help with the double digit numbers and also with the next number after 13.
But overall, I was quite impressed!
This was such a fun, interactive way for Henry to learn numbers!
You can adjust the numbers up or down to your child’s level.
Or even do skip counting (by 5s or 10s)!
ABCs would be another fun way to do this maze!
*Please note to use painters tape on your floor if at all possible. Other tape sticks. Bad.
Another number maze to try:
- Check out our outdoor maze that Henry drove through!
Other ways we’ve made a maze:
- To learn the alphabet
- To learn a letter
- To just have fun!
- Even more! 10 Mazes for Preschoolers for learning and having fun
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Salewa says
We did this! Thank you. It was good for counting – he’s now just using it as a race track for all his cars :)
Kathleen says
Exactly what I needed for my middle son. Thank you!!! :)
@SnazzyGems says
Fabulous idea. Creative, affordable, educational and above all fun! Well done indeed, thanks for sharing!
JDaniel4's Mom says
This looks like hourse of fun!
My Life as Mommy says
What a fun idea! I'm going to remember this for when my Little Man gets a little older (he's 17 Months). Great idea
OneMommy says
I've been wanting to do a tape maze with my little guy. Love the idea of adding numbers to it to work on counting skills as well.
Brenna says
This activity will go great w a community helper theme in two weeks. Thx for the idea.
Prabha@LearningUnboxed says
This is just fantastic.
Jen@Creative and Curious Kids! says
Good idea! I think little man would like riding his cars through a maze and then integrating counting for learning as well. Thanks!
Emma @mummymummymum says
That is such a good idea!My little boy loves mazes, i might try that with words to read. xx