My kids love to stamp anything and everything. Today they decided to stamp with dice, which became a great lesson in early math.
We make our own stamp pads, which is really simple. All you need is felt, a plastic plate or lid, acrylic paint and salt. Cut the felt into a circle to fit the bottom of your plate. Squeeze a small amount of acrylic paint onto the plate, sprinkle with a bit of salt and stir. The salt will make the acrylic more fluid and easier to stamp with. Don’t use to much salt or it will become too runny. Lay the felt over the paint and let it absorb into the felt.
Quick, easy prep and your stamp pad is ready to go. It is also reusable, which I love. Just simply rinse the felt out lay flat to dry. You can use tempera paint as well, I just like acrylics.
We made the plus, minus and equals signs by cutting up foam stickers to the right shape. Foam stickers work great because they have depth and are already sticky. We stuck the foam math signs onto dice and started stamping.
We also worked with the little ones on number sequencing. I love when the kids can learn while playing.
I will be linking to these parties.
Oh my gosh, you have the coolest ideas! This is so fun!
Love to have you link up to my new link party, For the Kids Fridays!
rachel
http://sunscholars.blogspot.com
Thanks for linking up to For the Kids Fridays! I can’t wait to see what you have to share next week!
paint and maths skills at once, nice!
Check out my recent post @ http://blog.memetales.com/2011/03/counting-activities-kids-craft/
What a great idea!!! What a fun way to introduce math to the kids! I will definitely be trying this (and thank you so much for tip on how to make your own stamp pad!)
Neat! What a great idea with dice! My daughter is really getting into counting and numbers and would love this!
This is SO cute!
Oh my goodness. I just found your blog this week… and I am overwhelmed!! I LOVE IT!!!!! I seriously had the hardest time deciding WHICH of your posts I wanted to feature this week! I love your latest one too with the credit cards… and the microwave puffy paint… and the ivory soap experiment… oh man… you’re going to keep this house busy!
But, I’m excited to feature THIS POST on my weekly High Five! – but this week is a special High Ten! because I’m behind and couldn’t narrow down the choices.
High Ten! Friday
Thanks for the great idea!
Jamie @ hands on : as we grow
Thanks so much for featuring me on your blog! We love experimenting and learning while we play. I enjoyed peeking around your creative blog, it is so fun to see what other parents are doing.
Love this Tammy – excellent ideas!! Thanks for sharing, it will be referenced often:)
What a fun idea!
I love this! I am a kindergarten teacher and this would be a great learning station activity!!!
Thanks for sharing! :>)
BRILLIANT! this is such a great idea! I am totally going to try this with my son and share it with his playgroup.
Love this project! Thanks so very much for sharing on Craft Schooling Sunday and and so nice to “meet” you! Hope you’ll be back again soon!
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We thought this was such a fun way for children to practice addition, so we shared it on our site!
all the best,
Sherry + Wendy @ Kiboomu
Thanks for the feature!
Take a look at that red number five die in the IMGP0794 and what do you see besides the obvious? It’s possible to use this to make a “garden of mysical amanita muscaria mushrooms” just from this simple stamp. My son is having a go at this craft idea. He decided to also paint some of our rocks too.
Rubbing it in his tiny hands he says, “Mommy rock soap!”
Wow…I love this idea. Thanks so much for sharing. I am definitely doing this with my first graders!
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Perfect art project! Thanks for sharing.
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