Fishy counting is a simple skip counting game from ict games that presents children with a number on a fish and two fish swimming by each fish with a number on them also. The children must choose between the two fish quickly, deciding which comes next when skip counting by 2's. The graphics are simple and the game is very self-explanatory once your child starts to play.
If your child is learning about skip counting by 5's in the fall, this Halloween themed game is a good choice for giving them a little extra practice at mastering the skill. Ghosts appear in a haunted house with numbers in increments of fives on them. One of the ghosts will be missing its number and it is the child's job to decide what the missing number is by skip counting. Though this game, provided by the Oswego City School District in New York, is simple, children in preschool and kindergarten may require some assistance to enter their answer until they grasp the concept of how to play.
Learning Planet has a counting game that parents can easily customize for their child's skill level counting by any number of their choosing from 1 to 9. Once a number is chosen for the skip counting, the child will see a line with two numbers at the bottom of the game creating the beginning of a number pattern. It is then the child's job to choose the next number in the pattern from a grid of numbers until all of the numbers are gone. In the end the child will have skip counted by the number chosen and completed the number pattern at which time he will move on to another round, repeating the same steps again.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt School Publishers provides free lessons, activities and games on the Harcourt School Learning Site, including a fun dot-to-dot style skip counting game that focuses on counting by 5's and 10's. First, the children will connect the dots by counting by 5's to reveal an interactive picture. When she is done playing with the picture she revealed, she moves to the next level and is asked to connect the dots by 10's, revealing another fun interactive picture. Both times the child is skip counting until she reaches the number 100.