Numbers Counting Fine Motor | Play Dough Tracing Number Words | PreK SPED OT

Learn numbers, counting, and number words while building fine motor skills — all in one hands-on activity! With these Numbers "Make It, Trace It" cards, students identify and create numbers with play dough, trace numbers and number words, and count 1–10. It's a fun, multi-sensory way to practice number recognition, counting, and fine motor skills at the same time. A favorite for task boxes, morning tubs, math and literacy centers.

Just print, laminate, and go — no assembly required. Add play dough and a dry erase marker, and students are ready to make each number and trace along.

📦 This Download Includes

• 20 cards in two sets:
  • Set 1: identify numbers 1–10 and trace numbers 1–10
  • Set 2: count 1–10 and trace number words

Easy prep: just print, laminate, and go — no assembly, reusable all year.

📚 How to Use

• Students make each number with play dough
• Trace the numbers and number words
• Count 1–10 and match the quantity
• Practice number recognition, counting, and fine motor together
• Use in task boxes, morning tubs, math and literacy centers, and workstations — or at home
• Print, laminate, and reuse year after year

🎯 Skills Targeted

• Number identification and formation (1–10)
• Counting and one-to-one correspondence
• Number words (reading and tracing)
• Fine motor strength and control (play dough)
• Tracing and pre-writing
• Following directions
• Independent work skills

💛 Perfect For

• Preschool, Pre-K, and Kindergarten
• Special education (SPED) and autism classrooms
• Occupational therapy (fine motor)
• Speech-language therapy (number vocabulary)
• Math AND literacy centers, task boxes, and morning tubs
• Early childhood and homeschool

🌟 Why Teachers Love These

• Numbers AND counting AND number words AND fine motor — several goals in one
• 20 cards across two sets — number ID, formation, counting, and words
• Multi-sensory — make it with play dough, then trace it
• No assembly — just print, laminate, and go
• Reusable year after year once laminated

🔢 More hands-on numbers activities:

• Hands-On Numbers Activities