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And the winner of the Kindle is ….

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Amazon Kindle Winner on CraftGossip

But first, some stats 🙂

Terrific response to our call to get us to 10000 fans before the 10th of March. We started this giveaway on the 22nd of Feb and after extending the end date by one day to 11th of March (due to server downtime), we reached the goal. We went from 8400 fans to 10102! That is around 95 new fans a day!

Thank you to everyone who entered. The condition of the giveaway was that you had to link to your Facebook profile (after liking our Facebook page) in the comment section of the giveaway post. We got 1006 entries. So, 1 in 10 fans actually applied to be in the giveaway.

After checking everything, and then checking some more, the winner is.. comment no. 875. Congratulations to Regina @ Chalk In My Pocket!

Regina, you have 5 days to contact us at [email protected] with your mailing address after which we will draw a new winner.

Thank you everyone and watch out as we have some great giveaways planned for the National Craft Month, including a new sewing machine fromJanome! That giveaway will start in the last week of this month.

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  1. Congrats Regina on winning the kindle and a Big Congrats to Craft Gossip for reaching over 10000 likes. This site is the best!!!!! LOVE IT!

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Learning Numbers for Preschoolers

Learning numbers actually involves a few different skills, from recognizing the shape of the number and knowing the word that goes with it to understanding one to one correspondence for counting and what order the numbers go in. 

A lot of this is learned best through play and activities that get kids counting and tracing and otherwise interacting with numbers. These activities can help. 

I specifically mentioned tracing above because of these number formation rhymes cards from Teaching Mama, which can be used in lots of ways to practice making the shapes of the numbers, including tracing, lining up items on the number shapes (and counting them!), using playdough to shape the numbers and so on. Each number has a little rhyme to help you remember how to make it, which is cute. 

And speaking of playdough, you can find lots of playdough number mats with different themes for kids to use as they learn about numbers. Preschool Play and Learn, for example, has these cute apple themed ones that also teach one to one correspondence as you learn the numbers and count to 10. 

Or use these tree-themed ones from Live Over Cs to form the numbers, count out items on a ten frame and place the correct number of items in the tree to match the number (do this with playdough, little buttons or whatever manipulatives you have on hand). Your little builders will also love these Duplo number mats from Life Over Cs, which allow you to shape the number out of blocks and count out the number of blocks that corresponds to each number.

I also love these mats from The Savvy Sparrow that include the number and the word you can trace with playdough or marker, showing how to count the number on your fingers, a tens frame and a number line.

Finger plays and counting songs are lots of fun for little ones, too, and Childhood 101 has a great collection of songs and rhymes having to do with numbers (as well as printable song cards you can use with them. 

This cardboard roll number chain form Hands On As We Grow would be a fun addition to singing number songs or to use in other play and counting games. And we all love something easy to make with stuff we already have. 

Older kids who already know the order of numbers can also use these connect the dot number printables from Fun Learning for Kids. Or use the shapes for playdough mats or to practice tracing even for kids who don’t know all the numbers in order yet.