“Play and Learn with Manipulatives” Activities for Pre-K & Kindergarten
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In Pre-K, TK, and Kindergarten, we definitely LOVE manipulatives! Using them in our math and literacy centers makes our day so much more playful and engaging. These “Play and Learn with Manipulatives” Activities are easy to prep and designed to pair perfectly with common manipulatives that you likely already have in your classroom!
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“Play and Learn with Manipulatives” Activities
This amazing resource pack includes 8 individual packs of printable math and literacy activities, each focused on a specific manipulative. They are designed for use with counting bears, play dough, mini erasers, pattern blocks, cubes, letters, numbers, and dice!
With tons of hands-on, easy-prep activities, this bundle of centers is a win for both teachers and students. Just add the specified manipulatives – and that’s it!
Let’s check out some of the math and literacy skills featured in this bundle!

Hands-On Literacy Activities
Your kids will have a blast building a strong foundation for fluency with these engaging literacy activities! Literacy skills covered include:
- letter recognition
- rhyming
- story sequencing
- sound mapping
- beginning sounds
- middle sounds
- ending sounds
- tracing and writing letters
- ABC order
- word families
- sight words
- syllables
- CVC words
- digraphs
- tracing and writing words
- onset and rime

Interactive Math Activities
These low-prep math activities will have your students super excited to learn! Math skills covered include:
- counting
- subitizing
- one-to-one correspondence
- graphing and data collection
- number recognition
- 2D shapes
- patterns
- sorting
- addition
- subtraction
- five/ten frames
- measurement
- ordinal numbers
- tracing and writing numbers
- comparing
- tally marks
- number words
- base ten blocks

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