• Number composition: Select a large yellow butterfly, we’ll choose the one numbered 6. Instruct the child to place 6 beads/small buttons/cereal on the butterfly wings. Once they have completed the exercise talk through the composition: “Yes, 2 plus 4 equals 6. What is another way we can make 6?” Older children can write out the corresponding number sentences on a post-it. For a sensory experience you can also make these markings on the butterfly using playdough. 
• Matching: Match the yellow butterflies to D&J Find and Fit number puzzles or D&J printables. You can also play this by matching with numbers that together make 10 (so a 3 has to go on a 7). 

• Number composition: Spread a random amount of beads/cereal on the bottom part of the kite. Instruct the child to count them and point to the number on the number line. Encourage the child to break the quantity into two pieces/parts and divide it between the colors on the top of the kite. 
• Language suggestions: “Can you separate these beads into two parts? How many do you have in this part? (Focus on a part of the top of the kite) How many in this part? (move to another part/section of the kite) How many whole beads do you have? Give the child the same object, but in two different colors (eg. red and blue beads) for the child to concretely see the two parts.
• Roll two dice: 4 and a 2. Child places 4 snack pieces on one part of the kite and 2 on the other. They figure out the ‘whole’ and put that number of snack pieces on the bottom of the kite. 
• Symmetry: put a pattern of beads on one side of the kite and encourage the child to illustrate its mirror image on the other side.
• Odd and even: use the centerline half of the kite to talk about odd and even numbers (even numbers you can split exactly in half)
• eg. take four Cheerios and show you can divide them in half equally on the kite, which makes it an even number; with 5 Cheerios this cannot be divided equally and therefore means it’s an odd number
• Countdown on the tail: “Let's count down from 10” - be sure to point as you count

• Count and stack: Count the dots on the dominos and stack the correct number of D&J bingo chips on top. 
• Sort your D&J 123 Find & Fit puzzle pieces on the top of the domino faces. 
• Sort your D&J dominos on top of each corresponding domino image on the placemat. The same can be done with sums of ten. For example, on the domino from the placemat that is a 3, you would place a 7 valued domino on top. 
• Match your D&J numbers printable to the dominos. 
• Match clothespins or post-it page markers to the domino total or the individual half values depending on the counting level of the child. 
• Making 5 or 10 using clothespins or page markers. Encourage the child to make 5 or 10 using the individual squares on the domino.

• Child counts while touching each number…both up and down. 
• Ask your child to count up to 12 (or any number) starting at a number other than 1. “Start at 4 and count up to 9.” (children can reference the number line if needed. 
• One (two) more or less: Ask the child to point to a number on the line. Alternatively, you can point to a group of bugs and have them identify that on the number line. Ask them to show you 2 more or two less on the number line. 
• Odd and Even: identify the odd and even numbers on the number line. When talking about a specific number show how it can be divided on the kite in two pieces (evenly or otherwise)

• Sort D&J Find and Fit puzzle pieces along the number words on the top trim 
• Sort clothespins or post-it page markers along the top of the placemat with numbers or match them to their corresponding sum of 10 (eg. 6 and 4). 
• Sort dominos along the number words 

Coding: place 5 different colored bingo chips on top of the butterflies. For example, 3=red, 4=blue… Encourage the child to place the bingo chips on the correct number on the rest of the placemat. Everywhere the number 3 is represented/shown the child needs to put a red bingo chip.