Counting using Bean Bags

This is my fifth counting activity with Wugs in the last two weeks and I have to admit that I was starting to feel a bit defeated.  He has definitely got into the rhythm of counting and has been doing it during his play and at the supermarket or when looking through a book, but the number he comes up with doesn't always correspond to the quantity he is looking at. Then I remembered a lecture I attended at university about how people have different learning styles and I decided to apply counting to something he loves more than anything else - to physical activity.

I brought out some numbered bean bags that I bought ages ago and have never used.  I placed the bean bags into a basket and let him put his hand inside, read the number on the bean bag, then jump, hop, clap, blow raspberries to match the number on the bean bag.  He absolutely loved it!  His own adaptation to this game was to shout out the number on the bean bag as loudly as he could,  throw the bean bag as far as he could down the corridor and then jump, hop, clap etc.  After we had thrown all the bean bags, I asked him to collect them up and place them in order which he did almost perfectly.  Every day this week, he has gone back to the basket and wanted to do the activity again.  Even Dooey had fun collecting up the bean bags.

What we used:
Basket
Numbered Bean bags