• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Fantastic Fun & Learning

Fun learning activities and things to do with kids

  • About
    • Contact
    • Privacy Policy and Disclosure
  • Themes
  • Holidays
  • Printables
  • Concepts
    • Alphabet
      • Letter A
      • Letter B
      • Letter C
      • Letter D
      • Letter F
      • Letter G
      • Letter I
      • Letter J
      • Letter K
      • Letter M
      • Letter N
      • Letter O
      • Letter P
      • Letter Q
      • Letter R
      • Letter S
      • Letter T
      • Letter U
      • Letter W
      • Letter Z
    • Art
    • Crafts
    • Fine Motor
    • Gross Motor
    • Phonemic Awareness
    • Phonics
    • Math
    • Outdoor Play
    • Science
    • Sensory
  • By Age
    • Baby
    • Toddler
    • Preschool
    • Kindergarten
  • By Month
  • Books
    • Books and Activities
      • Book Lists
      • Book Related Activities
  • Shop
You are here: Home / Themes / Flowers / Play Dough Counting Garden

Play Dough Counting Garden

By Shaunna Evans 2 Comments · This content may contain affiliate links.

Share on X (Twitter)Share on FacebookShare on PinterestShare on Email

Spring is a great time to explore flowers and gardening. Whether your indoors or outside little ones will have fun creating their own garden. This spring play dough invitation is quick to set up. And it’s a great way to practice counting and learn about the parts of a flower.

Preschool Math-Play Dough Counting Activity

Affiliate links included.

To set up the activity, you’ll need some number stamps. This version from PlayDoh is the set pictured. We also really like this dough stamper set from Lakeshore Learning. We chose to focus on the numbers 5 through 9 for this learning activity, so I only set those stamps out.

Next to the stampers I placed green and pink play dough. And in the middle of the work space I spread out three balls of yellow dough.

Counting Garden Invitation Materials

As with anything that involves play dough Tinker was immediately intrigued. She started by stamping numbers into the yellow play dough.

Stamping numbers

Then she created her own flower petals. Each flower gets the number of petals that matches the number stamped. This is a fun way to practice number recognition and creating sets.

Counting with Play Dough Flowers

 

Preschool Counting Activity for Spring

As kids get more comfortable creating the individual flower petals, they can also use some creativity to devlop different kinds of flower petals. You might even look at a book or some picture online to observe different flower shapes on real flowers.By doing so you are incorporating some preschool science skills as well.

Counting with play dough flower petals

Another way to incorporate science is to discuss the vocabulary for the parts of a flower. This is easy to do as kids separately create the flowers, stems, and leaves for each flower. Parts of a Flower is a great book to read along with this activity.

After setting out this initial invitation you can also leave out the materials and maybe some additional play dough colors for continued playtime. Tinker went on to create numerous Counting Gardens with all sorts of varieties of colors and flower shapes.

Follow this activity up with activities using our free printable flower number cards.

More Fun with Flowers

Click on the image to find our other flower theme activities.

Flower Theme

Books About Flowers

Take some time to read about flowers together to enhance the learning inspired by this activity.

Fiction and Nonfiction Books About Flowers for Kids

Hands-on Play with ABCs and 123s

ABCs and 123s Book Cover

If you’re looking for more hands-on ways to practice the alphabet and beginning math skills with kids, check out our co-authored book ABCs and 123s. Inside you’ll find over 40 kid-tested learning activities that teach beginning literacy and math in a playful way.

Learn more about ABCs and 123s

buy-now

 

More Fun with Play Dough


A to Z Guide to Play Dough Activities

 

Share on X (Twitter)Share on FacebookShare on PinterestShare on Email

Filed Under: Fine Motor, Flowers, Kindergarten, Letter F, Math, Preschool, Spring Tagged With: counting, flowers, play dough

Previous Post: « Garden Scavenger Hunt Free Printable
Next Post: Easy Butterfly Craft Ring »

Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. Heather

    April 8, 2016 at 10:58 am

    I love this activity for preschoolers for both counting and creativity.

    Reply
    • Shaunna Evans

      April 13, 2016 at 6:41 am

      Thank you!

      Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Recipe Rating




Primary Sidebar

Search

Join in the fun!

Facebooktwitterpinterestinstagram

Subscribe via Email

Hi, I’m Shaunna!

Welcome to Fantastic Fun and Learning. Here you'll find plenty of great ideas for fun learning activities and things to do with kids.

Popular Right Now

Preschool Name Activities

Free Printable Scavenger Hunts for Kids

Make Germs Scatter Hand Washing Science Demonstration

Our Recent Posts

  • Spring Syllable Sort
  • Spring Color by Syllable
  • St. Patrick’s Day Color by Syllable

Copyright © 2025 | Privacy Policy · Web Hosting Servously.com