Counting Activity Sheets

Use these simple counting activity sheets to practice counting up to twelve with your child.  These full-color worksheets feature quality graphics from the artists at freepik.com and best of all, you can print them out for free to use at home or in the classroom.

The activity would be great for use in a preschool or kindergarten classroom.  Each paper focuses on counting objects from one all the way up to twelve. The images are all things that my kids love (especially the dinosaurs) and I'm sure yours will too.

I'll cover some basic instructions and how to use each activity sheet, but the directions are fairly simple, so if you're ready, scroll down, click on the images, print them out, and start counting!

Printable Counting Activity Sheets

There are directions on each worksheet so feel free to get started, but if you're looking for more tips on how to use the activity or need more help with the directions, be sure to keep reading below.

Activity Instructions

At the top of each activity is a box (legend).  Inside the box are six different items--each of them has a number underneath it.  The number tells you how many of each item you'll be counting. 

For example, in the second worksheet, the first item in the box is a unicorn with the number five below it.  You will then look through the six boxes below the legend and find the one with unicorns in it.  Now, circle 5 unicorns.  Once you have circled five of them, you should count all of the unicorns in the box and write the number on the line below it.  Do this for all of the items from the legend.

There are a couple of different ways that you could use these counting worksheets.  In the picture here, I've shown you two different options for using the line beneath each box.

In option 1, you could focus on just counting all of the items in the box.  As you can see, the two dinosaurs have been circled and all five have been counted and recorded on the line.

If you would like to start working on simple addition, you could do something more like option 2.  Instead of counting all of the items in each box, write out an addition problem. 

After circling the correct number of items from the legend (in this case 2) write that number down on the line.  Draw the addition sign, then count the number of uncircled items (in this case 3) and write it after the addition sign.  Next, write an equal sign, followed by the correct answer (total number of items in the box--in this case 5).

If your child is ready for addition problems like this, you can find more simple addition worksheets to practice on.  Simply check out some of the pages below.  You can also find more lessons on numbers, counting activities, and more: