Preschool Counting: How Many Drops to Fill the Dot?
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My preschooler needs activities to keep him BUSY! Â He loves to play and run around, but also loves activities that help him use his motor skills. Â Today I have a fun preschool counting activity for you.
We have a bazillion eye droppers around our house from a science class I taught at our homeschool co-op. (you can buy 100 of them for under $5) I wanted to do something fun and educational with him using the eye droppers so the eye dropper dot counting activity came about.
We have done eye dropper painting in the past, but this was different. This eye dropper dot counting activity combined colors, water, and counting!
How to Do the Eye Dropper Preschool Counting Activity
I drew some different sized circles randomly around a piece of paper and laminated the paper. Â If you don’t have a laminator (one of my favorite homeschool tools!) you can use a sheet protector, a zip-loc bag, or even tape wax paper over your paper.
You can draw your own, or download this basic template:
Download- How Many Drops to Fill the Dot
Watch it in action:
Next, I prepared a few cups of colored water with water and food coloring. We just used the primary colors, then they can be mixed into any other color the kids want!  I set the supplies in front of my son.
We started by counting how many drops of water to took to fill the dots. Since they were all different sizes, it was fun to compare them. Â Then he wanted to just play around with it. Â It turned into a fun color mixing activity for him, too!
By the end he was making potions! I love his creative thought process. That’s the great part about these hands-on learning activities. They can learn what you intend them to, but then their creative minds always take them further!
This activity is so fun and simple as well as inexpensive to put together. It is a good counting and math activity for preschoolers and toddlers, but my older kids were enjoying joining in  on it, too!
Also check out my Water Drop Maze post!
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Looks like fun! We did a colored water activity a while back, and I ended up pulling out the coffee filters to drop onto. They make amazing snowflakes in the window.