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Link up only posts inspired by Eric Carle’s books that share book inspired crafts, activities, recipes, etc.Now that we’ve shared our activity with you, we’re excited to see what you came up with! Please link up your Eric Carle inspired posts to the blog hop linky below. You can also modify the number of ducks used to play the game and explore different combinations. To extend the activity you could also have kids write out the combinations or tally how many times they got each combination during their game. We repeated as many times as the kids wanted to and made observations along the way about the different combinations they were getting. Then they dropped them and yelled “OVERBOARD!” Then they counted to see how many ducks landed on the shore (tan foam) and how many ducks landed in the ocean (blue foam). To play, the kids scooped up all of the ducks in their “boat” (We used our hands, but if you have a small toy boat you could definitely use that, too!). We used 10, so that we could practice identifying different ways to make ten. You can set the game up with as few or as many ducks as you’d like. In this game we are practicing combinations of numbers.

Then I set the tan sheet down into the glass baking sheet and placed the blue sheet on top so that they overlapped a bit. I trimmed the blue sheet a bit to make it look like the edge of the ocean. You could use any tray or container that will fit your foam sheets and ducks. Because I wanted to keep the ducks contained during our activity I also used a large glass baking sheet.

To set up the game I gathered one blue glitter foam sheet, a tan foam sheet, and ten small rubber duck party favors. This concept set the stage perfectly for our math game. In the story ten ducks go overboard and find adventure out in the ocean. We were inspired to create this fun math game for preschoolers and kindergarteners.īefore doing this activity we read 1o Little Rubber Ducks. There are so many books to choose so there are sure to be some terrific activities shared. This month the Virtual Book Club for Kids is sharing activities to go along with books by Eric Carle.

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