Children can make sticker books to take home from school for additional counting practice. The Teaching is a Work of Heart website suggests folding six pieces of copy paper in half and stapling them together to make a book. Let children decorate the outer pages of the book to make a cover. Write numbers one through 10 at the top of the inside pages. Children can peel and stick the correct number of snowmen stickers onto each page. Read the book by naming the number on each page and counting the snowmen.
Make an interactive counting game adapted from the Virtual Vine website. Draw an outline of a snowman on 10 large pieces of white butcher paper or bulletin paper. Alternatively, project a snowman image onto a wall, and then trace the outline onto the paper. Draw a hat on each snowman, and write numbers one through 10 on the hats. Laminate and cut out the snowman shapes and tape them to the wall. Cut small strips of self-adhesive hook-and-loop closure, such as Velcro. Press the loop side of the strips onto the bellies of the snowmen where children should put buttons. Use one strip for the snowman with the number one on its hat, two strips for the snowman with number two on its hat, etc. Press the hook side of the strips onto the backs of large buttons or craft pom-poms. Children can count out the correct number of buttons to match the number on each snowman's hat and press them onto the snowman's belly.
Children can count fish as they feed the penguins in a game from the Child Fun website. Copy, color and cut out a picture of a penguin 10 times. Write numbers one through 10 on the penguins' bellies. Laminate the pictures for durability. Children can count fish crackers and place the correct number of fish on each penguin's belly. After the game, children can count backward to remove the fish crackers and eat them.
Practice counting forward and backward with a Christmas countdown craft from the Free Kid Crafts website. Cut a bell shape from yellow construction paper. Cut red and green construction paper into long, 1-inch wide strips. Glue the ends of a strip of paper together to make the first link in the paper chain. Continue adding links to the paper chain, alternating red and green links. Count aloud as you insert each paper strip through the previous link, then glue the ends of the strip together. When the chain reaches 25 links, staple one end to the bottom of the bell. Beginning on the first day of December, remove one link each day. Count the remaining number of links to count down the number of days until Christmas.