My kids love to stamp anything and everything. Today they decided a simple Stamping Dice Activity, 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.
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Oh my gosh, you have the coolest ideas! This is so fun!
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paint and maths skills at once, nice!
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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.
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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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Hi,
We tried this activity and did not have quite as much luck with it as you did. lol. I was wondering if I could use your IMGP0809.jpg (of the rows of stamped dice addition) in my blog post about the activity? I will give you credit for the photo and link back to you in my post.
Thanks,
Shannon
You are more than welcome to use my photo. Thanks for asking, I appreciate the link back.
Thank you, thank you, thank you. Great activity for students of all ages in special ed and I think I’ll use it in September during an activity group with students in high school who have autism. ‘Preciate your work. Karen
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This is such a great idea. I have a little guy who loves dice…I’ll have to set this up for him this week! Thank you
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Love this idea! It’s hands, fun and combines math and art together in one activity. Awesome job =)
Such a brilliant way to make stamp pads! My daughter always gets frustrated when our pads run out of ink.