Roll and Dot Game

The activity Monkey and I did this afternoon is intended to be a math game but turned out to be a bit of an art activity as well. 

Supplies: bingo daubers, die, coffee filters

I put a table cloth over the table for this activity, which I strongly recommend. Or newspapers. The bingo dauber went right through the coffee filter and I had to wipe it off the tablecloth with soap and water. It came off my plastic table cloth easily, but it would be upsetting to ruin a nice table. 

The game is simple. Throw the die, and then put that number of dots on to the coffee filter with a bingo dauber. 

This game is great for practicing subitizing/number recognition (i.e. number of dots). For older children, you could use two dice and have them add the numbers. 

After a few turns the coffee filter started to get really covered with dots. 

Monkey decided he wanted some white showing through on his coffee filter, so we stopped after about eight turns each. 

They look so cute we had to put them up on the wall!

Mar