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Mitten Match Number and Fine Motor Skills

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We love games that can be used time after time and differentiated, especially when they work on fine motor skills too! This Mitten Match Number and a Fine Motor Skills activity is a fun learning activity for your preschooler or kindergartener that is sure to be a hit!

This Mitten Match Number and a Fine Motor Skills activity works on building number sense and is perfect for your preschooler or kindergartener!

Matching activities are great for developing visual discrimination skills. These skills are needed when a child start learning to recognize the different numbers and letters. This mitten matching activity works on numbers skills too, identifying numbers and pairing them with the corresponding number of dots. A whole lot of fun learning opportunities here!

Mitten Match Number and Fine Motor Skills

I made these mittens with felt (I love felt), but one can use craft foam or cardboard too. Simply use a mitten template (you can use this), and cut different color mittens, two of each color. These sets can be used for younger kids as a color matching activity too: simply match the two “friends”.
This Mitten Match Number and a Fine Motor Skills activity works on building number sense and is perfect for your preschooler or kindergartener!

Use stickers or labels for the numbers and dots. Then it is not permanent and can be changed, for example to match upper and lower case letters.

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

This Mitten Match Number and a Fine Motor Skills activity works on building number sense and is perfect for your preschooler or kindergartener!

Ready to learn?

Attach the number to the corresponding dots: count the dots, identify the correct number and peg together! (I only used up to number five for this activity, but you can adjust that according to your child’s capability.)

Using clothespins to attach the two matching mittens works on those ever important fine motor skills.
This Mitten Match Number and a Fine Motor Skills activity works on building number sense and is perfect for your preschooler or kindergartener!

Ideas for extending this matching activity:

  • 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: peg the mittens from 1-10 onto a “washing line” string. Or backwards to practice counting backwards.

More Fun Number Activities

For even more fun with numbers, grab our snowman addition game, hot chocolate number cards, or work on fine motor some more with our winter clip cards!

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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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About Nadia

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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