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Parking Lot Beginning Math Game

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Jonah and I have been slowly, but surely getting ready for my next post on Totally Tots. (It goes up on Thursday, but every day is full of pure preschool awesomeness around there!) One of the things we've been playing often is the Parking Lot Game! It's fairly simple, but Jonah loves it!

Parking Lot Game

Materials needed:

  1. Dice (We used our new Education Cubes)
  2. Ten Cars or other small space markers
  3. Parking Lot Game Beginning Math Mat (click to download)


Directions:

  1. Roll the dice
  2. Count the dots on the dice or identify the number
  3. Place a car in the correct "Parking Space"
  4. The first person to fill up their parking lot wins!

It's a fairly simple game, but just hard enough for Jonah during this time of learning to identify numbers. Jonah's interest level with numbers is really low for some reason. He would much rather talk about the alphabet and their sounds. I've been trying to come up with some fun ways to get Jonah interested in learning numbers. Like most boys, using his cars was a sure fire way to get Jonah's interest!

I've made a printable available for you and your little one to play the Parking Lot Game! Feel free to download it and use it over and over! I recommend printing the game mat on cardstock and laminating it for durability.

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Missy @ Dot-to-Dot Connections

Wednesday 6th of November 2013

Thank you for sharing this! We are using your Parking Lot Game for sight words right now :)

April

Friday 8th of March 2013

Looks like fun, but I'm trying to figure out how you get up to 10 with only one dice, isn't it 1-6

Rachel

Tuesday 5th of February 2013

HI! I just saw this post floating around Pintrest adn LOVE the idea. i have a question about the game and I may be over thinking it..hahah So I see the board has 10 spaces but the dice only has 6 sides? how do you get cars parked in the higher #'s??

My guy LOVES cars adn we have PLENTY! We will be using this game..:) THANK YOU!

Rachel

Tuesday 5th of February 2013

UMM so NM...I didn't download first..hahah THANK YOU for the GREAT GAMES!!!

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Friday 22nd of June 2012

[...] Lot Game – from mommy blogger Happy Brown House. Create a card like the one shown an a piece of 8 1/2 by 11 paper, and laminate it for durability. [...]

Erica

Thursday 11th of February 2016

I love this idea!

amanda

Thursday 3rd of November 2011

awesome idea!! thanks for sharing