Foam mittens

I cut out some foam mittens. My children hung them on the stairs.
Foam mittens can also be decorated. Ask the child to roll a die and decorate the mittens with the corresponding amount of, say, beads, plastic snowflakes, or anything else you might have at home.

Playdoh snowman

Winter crafts

I found the idea on Pinterest and my kids enjoyed making them.
For the snowman craft, we used toilet paper roll and covered it with a Christmas napkin, the same one we used for the scarf. We painted the snowman by using a pom pom.

Christmas counting activity

I found these funny rubber snowmen/gifts/snowflakes/... at Target and I used them for a counting activity for the kids.
I made a paper Christmas tree and snowman and asked the kids to decorate them by rolling a die and placing the corresponding amount of rubber decorations on them.

Snowman activity

A fun counting activity that's perfect for Winter! It seems to be popular on the Web and my children liked it too. We used numbers but beads are also good.

Shopping game

What do you do with your kids when they come home from school? What do you do if your kids are different ages?
I came up with an after-school game that can be used for kids of different ages.
I wrote a "shopping list" that goes like this:
5 blue
The child needs to go around the house and find 5 blue objects and place them in their shopping bag.
For my 2 year old, I only wrote the number and drew a blue circle. For my 5 year old, I wrote the number and the word for blue with some missing letters she had to fill in.
I gave each child the same colors but different amounts.
When they were done shopping, I placed some color cards on the floor and asked them to sort their "groceries" by color. Then I asked my oldest one to find out how many objects of the same color they had found. In order to do this, I wrote on a piece of paper the number of objects of, say, red, that her sister had to get and she added her amount from her shopping list and wrote the sum. We did this for every color.

Number board and how to use it

This easy to make number board can be used in so many different ways!
I made Halloween cards, each with a different amount of Halloween stickers on them and asked my children to match the card with the corresponding number on the board.
I also wrote the same numbers on another set of cards and asked my children to match them on the number board.
You can also have the child close their eyes and touch a number on the board. Let's say he/she picks 8. Then you ask the child to do something 8 times, like clap their hands or run on the spot or hop.