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Mitten Number Match and Fine Motor Skills Activity

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We love games and activities that can be used time after time and strengthen multiple skills too! This Mitten Number Match and Fine Motor Skills Activity is a fun game that builds number sense and fine motor skills. It’s perfect for your Pre-K or Kindergarten math centers and is sure to be a hit this winter!

*Pair with our Counting Centers and Activities for Pre-K & Kindergarten!

This Mitten Number Match and Fine Motor Skills Activity works on number sense and fine motor skills and makes a great winter math center!

Mitten Number Match and Fine Motor Skills Activity

Matching activities are great for developing visual discrimination skills. These skills are needed when a child starts learning to recognize different numbers and letters.

This mitten number matching activity works on identifying numbers and pairing them with the corresponding number of dots! This game will have your students strengthening their number sense in a super fun way!

How to Prep

I made these mittens with felt (I love felt), but you can use craft foam or cardboard too. Simply draw and cut a mitten template. You can then use the template to trace and cut different color mittens, two of each color.

*Teacher Tip: The sets of colored mittens can also be used as a color matching activity!

Trace and cut pairs of matching colored mittens out of felt to prep for this fun number match!

Use stickers or labels for the numbers and dots. That way it is not permanent and can be changed out to practice different skills (for example, to match uppercase and lowercase letters).

Add clothespins to the setup and you are ready to play!

Add labels with numbers and dots to the mittens and grab some clothespins for this hands-on number match!

RELATED RESOURCE: Math and Literacy Clothespin Clip Cards for January

Time to Play!

The goal of this number matching game is to attach the correct numbered mitten to the mitten with the corresponding number of dots. I only used up to number five for this activity, but you can adjust that according to your student’s or child’s capability.

Students begin by picking a mitten and then counting the dots. Once they identify the number of dots they find the mitten with the matching numeral. Then they use a clothespin to clip the matching pair together!

Using clothespins to attach the two matching mittens works on those ever-important fine motor skills. It may seem easy but it can be a challenge for little finger muscles.

Students count the dots on their mitten, find the mitten with the matching numeral, and clip them together.

Options for Extension:

  • For older kids, use simple sums. For example, one mitten is marked 1+2, another 3. That is the matching pair.
  • Use as a memory game. Turn the mittens upside down and find the pairs like you would do with a memory game.
  • Use these mittens for number ordering. Attach the mittens from 1-10 onto a “washing line” string. Or backwards to practice counting backwards.

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Nadia is a South African mom to two littles, a former preschool teacher, and currently working as a reading therapist at a remedial school. She blogs over at Teach me Mommy about easy and playful activities inspiring you to be your child's first teacher. You can see more of her ideas on Pinterest and Instagram.
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Nadia is a South African mom to two littles, a former preschool teacher, and currently working as a reading therapist at a remedial school. She blogs over at Teach me Mommy about easy and playful activities inspiring you to be your child's first teacher. You can see more of her ideas on Pinterest and Instagram.

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  1. Adventures of Adam

    February 2, 2016 at 10:00 am

    I love that the numbered mittens are different colours so the activity is focused on numbers rather than colours.

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    • Alex

      February 13, 2016 at 11:16 pm

      Yes! That makes it truly number focused – we love that too! Thank you! 🙂

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