Integrate numbers into daily living. Count toys and other objects when passing them out for activities or during clean-up time. Point out numbers in the environment found on calendars, clocks, and signs.
Generate counting activities. Use play dough to form numbers and then verbally identify the number. Help children make a number book by writing a number, one through ten, at the top of each of ten pieces of paper. Have him look through newspapers or magazines and cut out numbers, gluing them on the appropriate page of their book. These pages could then be bound to form a book.
Read counting books. Be sure to point to the numbers and the items when counting aloud as this provides both auditory and visual cues to the children concerning the numbers and number concepts. Use "Count!" by Denise Fleming, "Cookie Count" by Robert Sabuda, or "Counting Crocodiles" by Judy Sierra.
Search for numbers. Make two sets of index cards numbered one through ten. Place one set of index cards in various locations throughout the room. Next give the child a number from the other set of index cards and have her locate the matching card.
Participate in counting games. Take a muffin tin and muffin/cupcake liners. Write a number on the inside bottom of each liner and place the liners into the muffin tin. Give the child various items to count out - small toys, buttons, or stones. For example, he could count out four green fish and place them into the liner that has the number four written on it and then count out seven red fish and place them in the liner with the number seven on it.