Feed the Bunny Easter Counting Activities
Your preschoolers will go hopping mad for this fun Easter counting activity! Watch as their faces light up with excitement as they practice both counting and number identification skills. The hands-on, visual nature of this Feed the Bunny game ensures that your kiddos stay engaged for hours–guaranteed.
Get ready for giggles and smiles when you try out this Easter activity for preschoolers!
Ten Frame Feed the Bunny Printable
In preschool, we spend a lot of time teaching and reinforcing number sense skills. These early math skills come naturally to preschoolers, which one reason why they are developmentally appropriate.
There are a lot of benefits to ten frame math. Here are just some benefits for preschoolers.
- build number sense,
- help students gain subitizing skills,
- quantification fluency,
- introduce concepts of composing and decomposing numbers
Those skills are the foundation in a base ten math system.
I love teaching math to my preschoolers using ten frames because they are such an easy way to organize groups of ten, and in preschool, my goal is for my preschoolers to master number identification and counting to ten.
Simple ten frame printables make it easy for preschoolers to manipulate sets of ten and practice organizing ten in different ways.
So with Easter on its way, I made these ten frame Easter bunnies to add to our counting practice. And we’ve spent a lot of time counting with them!
Because what’s more fun than “feeding” a bunny a carrot when you match a ten frame with the corresponding numeral?!
Seriously, my preschoolers giggled and laughed out loud as they made crunching noises while feeding their Easter bunnies. And I got lots of smiles in, too, because I knew my preschoolers were having fun getting in ten frame counting practice.
FAQ About Teaching Counting in Preschool
Preschoolers learn to count through practice. That practice can happen naturally through everyday activities and through playing. Hands on counting activities for preschoolers are a must for additional practice, as well as sensory counting activities and even some worksheets, like counting bear worksheets that are so popular.
One-to-one correspondence is the understanding that each item is counted only once and one at a time. For example, when counting a set of counting bears
Practice should include lots of modeling by the teacher, and practicing small quantities first.
Preschool math is divided into five disciplines. Those disciplines are: number sense, algebra, geometry, measurement, and data analysis and probability. Preschool math instruction should include math activities in all five disciplines.
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Feed the Bunny Printable Ten Frame Activity for Preschoolers
This Easter printable is low prep and designed to be used in your preschool math centers, in small group work, circle time, or even independent practice. It teaches counting skills to preschoolers, as well as number identification and even subitizing.
Materials
- free ten frame printable (found at the end of this post)
The Set-Up
First, print the printable set, found below. Cut out the Easter bunny in the ten frame printable as well as the numbered carrots. You don’t have to cut out each individual carrot. You can leave them in their little boxes, but I do think they look cuter and nicer if you do.
I do like to laminate activities, to preserve the life of them. If you don’t wish to laminate the whole packet, dry erase pockets are a great option as well.
Set out the printable on a tray in your preschool math center or on the table and invite your preschooler to join you in some ten frame counting practice.
The Ten Frame Easter Activity
What’s more fun than feeding a bunny! Seriously, have you ever fed a rabbit? They are too cute!
I knew my little boys would eat up this activity (yes, pun intended…I’m so clever) because we had just visited our cousin’s house where they had adopted two teeny tiny bunnies. Their little mouths nibble at a million miles per minute as they crunch through a carrot or lettuce leaf.
We took this same approach when I introduced my little boys to this Easter activity. My little boys even starting saying, “munch, munch, munch,” as they fed each bunny.
How to play
The activity itself is simple.
Draw an Easter bunny card. Count the number of circles in the ten frame and find the corresponding numbered carrots to feed the bunny.
Feed the bunny my matching the carrot cards to the bunny ten frames. You can make this extra fun for preschoolers by putting the carrot card near the bunny’s mouth, and then making a crunching and munching sound!
Bonus points if your preschooler crunches and munches the same number as on the carrot card.
These cards fit four bunnies to a page so not only do they save on printing but they also are just the right size to keep in a small zip-top baggie and send home with your preschoolers, or pack into your purse on an outing, or store in a pencil box until next year.
But the smaller size is just the right size for little hands, which is just one more reason to adore this feed the bunny activity! It works those fine motor skills without being too overwhelming or difficult.
Tips for Teaching Counting With Ten Frames
When using printable ten frame activities with your preschoolers, there are a couple of things to teach your preschoolers about ten frames.
- Circles “don’t like” to share boxes in the ten frame.
- When using printable ten frames, only one math manipulative per box, please!
- Sets of numbers in a ten frame can appear anywhere in the ten frame and will still equal the same number.
- For example, the number three is the same no matter the configuration in the ten frame.
This printable offers traditional ten frame configurations, however when your preschooler is adding her own manipulatives to ten frame she may try a few different ways to organize her counters, and that is perfectly ok! – and a sign of mathematical understanding.
More Ways to Use this Printable Ten Frame Activity
This printable featured numbers 1-10, but here are some other ways to use this single printable. And my preschoolers love these fun ideas as much as the original Feed the Bunny counting game.
- Have your preschooler use items in the classroom to count out the quantity on the bunny and the carrot.
- Invite your preschooler to make color matches.
- Sequence the bunnies from greatest to least or the other way around.
- Use the cards and carrots to play a memory game.
- Get in even more counting practice by having your preschooler use a blank ten frame to make matching quantities before finding the carrots.
- Invite your preschooler to make other numbered “foods” for the rabbits to eat.
Get Systematic Counting Lesson Plans for Preschoolers
These counting lesson plans for preschool are done and ready for teaching! Just print the centers and laminate and you’re ready for an entire 16 weeks of strictly counting instruction and practice for your preschoolers.
Then grab your free ten frame printable below!
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Grab Your FREE Feed the Bunny Ten Frame Printable Here!
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I’m Sarah, an educator turned stay-at-home-mama of five! I’m the owner and creator of Stay At Home Educator, a website about intentional teaching and purposeful learning in the early childhood years. I’ve taught a range of levels, from preschool to college and a little bit of everything in between. Right now my focus is teaching my children and running a preschool from my home. Credentials include: Bachelors in Art, Masters in Curriculum and Instruction.
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