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Wiggly worm playdough rolls of soft pink and brown dough are an excellent way to explore the work these awesome little creatures do for the soil and our garden plants, and also as an animal that hibernates through the coldest months of the year waiting for the ground to thaw. The printable playdough mats below enable children to count, sort and explore a variety of different quantities using mathmatical language that helps to support their numeracy skills; adding more, taking away, making bigger, smaller, sharing out and matching wiggly worms to totals. To make, print the soil patches and place a number disc at the centre of each one, laminate and use as collection points for the worms that children make.

Playdough worm counting activity idea

Resources

 A quantity of playdough - handmade dough recipe
   
Printables:

Worm soil patches

Number discs 1 - 10

Number discs 11 - 20 

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Chalk markers to write on the laminated images

Children's digital camera to record work


   
Worm soil patches
Number discs 1 to 10
Acorn disc counters 11 to 20
Playdough worm activity - early years numeracy

 


Activity add-ons

Worm lifecycle - play figure models

The Earthworm Society website    

Wrap up warm winter worm  another playdough activity on silkysteps.com

There's a worm at the botom of the garden song and his name is Wiggly Woo

Buy worm lifecycle play figures on amazon.co.uk
Buy worm measuring resources on amazon.co.uk
Buy worm lifecycle play figures on amazon.co.uk






Buy laminators and pouches on Amazon.co.uk
Buy children's digital camera on Amazon.co.uk
Colouring playdough to add interest





 

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