Wee Steamers: Red Shoes

CATEGORY: Math

GRADE LEVEL: Early Childhood

  Let's Play Shoe Store!

For a fun and engaging activity, convert your dramatic play area into a shoe store! Provide a variety of shoes, shoe boxes, measuring devices, a mirror, a cash register, chairs, signs, and pretend money.  Children will expand comparison, classification, counting, measuring, technology and money-use skills. https://mumscreativecupboard.com/pretend-play-shop/

  Measuring Our Shoes

This game will encourage skills in measuring, comparison, and technology.  Children may use measuring terms such as “inches” and “foot” loosely, but this concrete experience is an important step toward understanding these abstract concepts. https://theimaginationtree.com/shoe-shop-dramatic-play/

   Sizing Shoes Up

Build children’s math skills of order and serration with familiar objects – shoes!  Provide a collection of miscellaneous shoes, place a line of tape on the floor, and encourage them to place shoes in order from shortest to longest.  They’ll enjoy making estimates, predicating, and adjusting their positioning as the activity unfolds. https://theeducatorsspinonit.com/shoe-activities-for-preschool-learning/

   Graphing Our Shoes

A shoe graphing activity is a terrific way to fully involve children in comparing and classifying shoes. Use a shower curtain or poster board to make a graph. Have children classify shoes on various attributes, color; tie/non-tie; function (e.g., weather, sports, work, special occasion). https://earlymath.erikson.edu/graphing-shoes-on-a-grid-best-math-help-websites-and-video/

   Shoe Flower Garden

Don’t throw out the shoes or boots your little ones have outgrown!  Encourage their love of nature by creating an outdoor shoe garden.  Shoes take the place of flower pots.  Arrange shoes in rows, or hang them on a fence using the shoes laces.  This engaging activity expands skills in botany, meteorology, comparison and classification. https://wonderfuldiy.com/old-shoe-planters/

   Fun with Shadows!

Can your child match the shoe to its shadow? Click CRAFT tab to download free PDF.