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Birthday cakes

THIS WEEK... Project outline

Project outline

Babies

Launching a project on how we all started out Help the children to develop their counting and number recognition skills.

Planned learning intention

Mathematical development

Resources

Empty margarine tubs poster paint PVA glue felt tipped pens straws a compass or metal skewer

Step by step

* Collect a number of empty margarine tubs of different shapes.

* Wash the tubs out with warm soapy water.

* Paint the tubs with a mixture of white poster paint and PVA glue.

* When the base coat is dry, decorate the tubs like birthday cakes.

* On the side of each 'cake' write a number between 1 and 10.

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