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President’s Day was once a celebration of George Washington’s birthday. Now other presidents like Abraham Lincoln are celebrated on President’s Day. Here is a set of President’s Day Numbers. Washington appears on the odd numbers and Lincoln appears on the even numbers. They would be great to have your children explore around President’s Day or maybe leading up to a presidential election.

While at first glance you may think these President’s Day numbers are just for preschool kids, older kids can use them too. Here is a list of several ways that I have come up with to use these President’s Day numbers.

President’s Day Counting Activity Ideas

Putting the Numbers in Order

Kids can be given a stack of the numbers from one to ten and put them in order. They can they count up for the number one. I think it is a good idea to have them touch each number while they say it.

Number and Object Match

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Kids can be given real or play coins to place on the numbers. (We used real pennies at my house.) They will need to up to place coins that match each number on it. Example: Number one gets one penny.

Adding Two Numbers

Kids can select two numbers or have two numbers given to them. They will need to make an addition sentence with those numbers. Kids can place the correct number of coins on each number. They can then combine the coins to find the sum. You could make felt a plus sign and equal sign for kids to put between the two numbers.

Counting Down

Kids can arrange the cards in descending order. The number line can start with ten and end with one. They can start with ten coins on the ten. Then slide the coins to the nine and take one away. This process can be continued until they get to one.