4 Foam Hands Maths Activities

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Go grab a pack of foam hands, glue dots and numbers to make

Four Foam Hands Maths Activities

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These can either be used as displays or as stand alone activities. When I use them as activities I place the hands shuffled in a basket for the children to re-order, not as they are pictured below. 🙂


#1 Counting in Ones to Ten

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Let the children rearrange the hands so they are in the correct order. These could also be used with objects and the children could place the correct number in the palms of each hand!

#2 Counting in Doubles

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Knowing these five double facts is a good foundation for Maths skills. It teaches them to calculate mentally and prepares them for doubling larger numbers later on.

#3 Counting in Tens to 100

Foam Hands Maths

This is a big one to master in Kinder!

Provide your child with a jumbled up set of  hands with numbers attached and invite them to place them in order from 10 to 100.

#4 Counting in fives

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Last but not least, an obvious one yet still an important one!


Resources you will need to make your own:



 I’d love to know how you use foam hands in your teaching!

Please email me with a photo and description at allie@primarycreations.com and we’ll feature you on the site!

Alison @ Primary Creations

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Alison Garza

Alison Garza is an autism specialist teacher, Additional Learning Needs Lead and founder of Elevating Neurodiversity. She has worked in education since 2001 and has extensive experience supporting autistic and neurodiverse learners across mainstream and specialist settings, with continuous experience in specialist provision since 2012.

Alison holds a Master's degree in SEN Autism (Children) and is passionate about helping educators translate evidence-informed practice into meaningful classroom strategies. Her work focuses on communication, language development, early literacy and creating inclusive learning environments that reduce cognitive load while celebrating neurodiversity.

Through Elevating Neurodiversity, Alison shares practical teaching guides, downloadable classroom resources and professional learning designed to help teachers, speech and language therapists and other professionals support autistic and neurodiverse learners with confidence.

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