Fancy seeing ants crawling on your muffin! Tell your little ones to add ants to their muffin game mat and then find the total. Quick - find the total before the muffin is eaten! We've provided ant counters to use along with the muffin game mat but counters would also work well.
Options:
- remove the number cards and just have students 'act out' addition stories that you tell - e.g Listen to the story and put ants on your muffin - 2 ants crawled onto a muffin and then 3 more crawled on, how many ants altogether?
- play for subtraction - start with 10 ants, roll a dice and remove that many - how many left?
- follow up the hands-on game with the included worksheet to consolidate learning
