Counting with Petals

This activity was inspired by Wugs' love of flowers and my discovery of a box of fabric petals that I bought from Ikea about 5 years ago - since before we were married.

I made the base by cutting out an A4 size rectangle from a cardboard box and from light blue felt.  I stuck the two together.  I cut out the leaves, stem and head of the flower from felt and stuck them to the base.  The idea was for Wugs to roll the dice and whatever number appeared on the dice, he had to match by the number of petals he added to make the flower.

The first thing he did was roll the dice and took two petals and put them in the centre of the flower head and said "eyes".  He added more for the nose and the mouth.  It was really quite funny.  This was probably the least successful of the counting activities I have tried with him so far.  He learned how to roll and read a dice, but didn't quite appreciate that he was creating a flower.

What we used:
Card
Different coloured felt
Glue
Fabric petals
Dice