Each child samples a red, green and yellow apple, decides which color is their favorite and places a cutout apple on a chart to represent their choice.
Children count the apples under each color and put a numeral under each column.
This activity teaches early graphing, color and number recognition all in one tasty activity. These finger puppets and numerals were used to relate a numeric symbol to the song Ten Little Indians. Counter objects were purchased through Lakeshore catalogs. This single switch spinner from AbleNet is used with the teacher made shape board above. A child spins to land on a shape and places a marker on the board under the matching shape.