{"id":34644,"date":"2019-02-22T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-22T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.3dinosaurs.com\/wordpress\/?p=34644"},"modified":"2026-08-23T19:10:01","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T00:10:01","slug":"fishbowl-counting-mats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.3dinosaurs.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/fishbowl-counting-mats\/","title":{"rendered":"Hands-On Counting with Fishbowl Counting Mat Printables"},"content":{"rendered":"

Counting mats are one of my favorite activities. You can use them for counting numbers and work into more math activities.<\/p>\n

Today I have a free fishbowl counting mat that is great for PreK and kindergarten. I love that these mats have two hands-on activities for learning to count.<\/p>\n

The Free Fishbowl Counting Mat Printable printable is apart of My Pets Week<\/a><\/p>\n

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The Fishbowl Counting Mat Printable is a great addition to the counting mat printables<\/a> on the site.<\/p>\n

What is a Counting Mat?<\/h2>\n

Counting mats are hands-on activities for practicing counting. They work on the skill of one-to-one correspondence. And helps with number recognition.<\/p>\n

Fishbowl Counting Mat Printables<\/h2>\n

The counting mats are perfect for kids working on their numbers 1 to 10. They are straightforward and easy to set up and make a great math center for preschool and kindergarten. Each one has a ten frame which is a great way for kids to work on the start of math.<\/p>\n

Each of the counting mats has the number written out, a number for playdough, ten frames and flowers for the background. You can see how I set up each of the mats. I used playdough<\/a>, fish counters<\/a>, and unifix cubes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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I often laminate<\/a> the pages if we are going to use them often. But if I’m out of laminating sheets or only using one time, I’ll use a sheet protector<\/a> on the pages. I might also used the sheet protectors to store them in a binder<\/a>. I just put all the pages in the sheet protectors back to back. This makes an easy to pull out activity they can do.<\/p>\n

You can see how we placed the unifix cubes<\/a> in the ten frames and the fish counters<\/a> on the mat. We used the playdough to build the number. <\/p>\n

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And these count the fish printable set<\/a> would be great with these fish counting mats.<\/p>\n

More Fish Printables to use with the Counting Mats<\/h2>\n

If you are looking for fishbowl number activities and printables check these out.<\/p>\n

I have a set of fishbowl number color trace<\/a> pages. These pages have two options for tracing or writing. The set has numbers 0 to 20 for kids to work on. There is also a pets version<\/a> that is also fun to use.<\/p>\n

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You can also check out the Fishbowl number find. These are great to match up to the mats. You can do the mat and follow up with the number find. We had fun putting the fish on the numbers.<\/p>\n

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Fish Bowl Number Find <\/h2>\n

Number digits and number words for kids to work on. You can trace the number or word and then dot them!<\/p>\n

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What you will find in these printables:<\/strong><\/p>\n