🏘 Spot the Numbers
Find house numbers in order on the way to the shops.
📚 Learn·20 min·Free·Ages 3–5·👶 Easy·🧑 Light
⚠️ Safety first
Stay with them outside. Hold hands on the pavement and keep well back from traffic.
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Why this is good for your child
- ✓Number recognition
- ✓Attention
What you need
A walk
How to do it
- 1.Look for house numbers as you walk.
- 2.Find 1, then 2, then 3, in order.
- 3.See how high you get before home.
How it actually goes
- ⏱ 30-second set-up —
- Thirty seconds: put a walk on the step or the grass, and sit down next to it before you call them over.
- 🧑 What you do —
- Show it once, slowly, without talking over yourself. Then hand it over and stop helping unless they ask.
- 👶 What they do —
- Line things up, count out loud, and notice what's the same.
- ✅ What success looks like —
- At 3–4 they'll repeat it, narrate it, and want to change the rules. Let them change the rules.
- 🧺 How to put it away —
- Everything back into one basket or tray, carried back to its spot by them. Naming the spot out loud is what makes it stick.
- 📈 When they outgrow it —
- Older? Count it, then ask how many there'd be with one more.