Who else snatched up some more mini erasers from Target!?! I already have pumpkin, cat, ghost, and Frankenstein erasers, but I just couldn't leave these adorable spiders on the shelf!
Mini erasers are great math manipulatives, and as soon as I saw these spiders, I knew I wanted to remake my spider counting cards. I have some hand-drawn cards I made probably 10 or so years ago, so I figured it was time to give them a face-lift! (If you don't have the spider mini erasers, you can cut the ring part off of spider rings to use instead.)
I ended up making four different cards to choose from.
There are:
*1/2 sheet cards with numbers 0-20
and
*1/2 sheet cards with numbers 0-10 and spider counters to help with number identification.
*Full sheet cards with numbers 0-20
*Full sheet cards with numbers 0-20 and spider counters in ten frames to help with number identification
Right now with my Kinders, I'm using the 1/2 sheet cards, numbers 0-10, with the spider counters printed on them. I like to have the spider counters on the card so if a student cannot identify the number, they can count the spiders and determine the number. I also always make my cards on alternating colors so that when they are laid out in order, the cards will make a pattern. (Odd numbers on one color, and even numbers on a different color.)
These counting cards are now available in my Teachers Pay Teachers store!
