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A selection of coloured plastic animals,bricks or shapes are good as they can be counted or sorted into groups & these groups counted.

Thanks so much for all the ideas, will look them up, I like the idea of the dominoes from ELC, can get them on Amazon too.

Think I may give the worm idea a miss though lol, although some of the other counting ideas sound good.

Thanks again
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I think I have decided, I am getting a Melissa & Doug See-Inside Numbers Peg Puzzle from Amazon, got very good reviews, may also get the dominoes too. Thanks to everyone

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Theres also Toysrus...

http://www.toysrus.co.uk/index.jsf

Picture Dominoes are ideal as it's play and learn.

Edit,,,,look for wooden number puzzles,,numbers on boards that children of 14 months can handle.

or a number mobile from ELC which is a chat phone also.

Any of the tubs of brightly coloured plastic items from Early Learning will be helpful,as long as they are big enough and safe for the age group, although as others have said everyday objects can be counted as part of the day-to-day living.
They used to make large cotton reels, but I don't know if they do now.

With number it is often a gradual process of understanding and simple games help to reinforce the concept.
Put out for example 4 objects in a line touching each other and put another set of similar 4 objects in a separate line spread out across a surface with gaps between them Count each set.
At first young children might say that there are more in the 2nd line, because it reaches across more space, but slowly they realise the constancy of a number.

I wouldn't bother with number symbols at her age.

My children used to pair clean socks, from the washing, colour matching at first, then counting later.
With supervision they played for ages with clothes pegs too.

Gwyn

If you are looking for the image of the numbers ( rather than just counting the numbers out) you can't do better than a wall frieze of the numbers I don't think. ELC used to do them when I worked there, ditto a wooden first jigsaw with numbers 1-9, Large dominoes ( with a picture of say 6 ladybirds on one end and the number 6 at the other)

if you google 'number toys' in google images there are lots of good things :-D

If you have one in your area the Early Learning Center has a good range of toys to teach counting (quite reasonable)

Like Ann says Amazon is also a good option

Love Maggies dee dor dive .... for my G daughter it was counting Hor- life a name that still sticks for woodlice :-D :-D

I used worms with my eldest :-0
When she was small, we kept ducks,and as I dug the garden (grew all our own veg :-D - and ate some home-grown ducks :-D) she used to take the worms to feed the ducks :-|

So, to ensure the garden still had some worms, I got her t line the worms up, then count to 3 - she could take that one.
Obviously the line got longer, and she could take 4, 5 etc.

My 2 year old grandson, though he doesn't talk very well, can count up past 10. I think my daughter just used to count things out, from an early age..

He calls a satsuma a dee dor dive (3,4,5) as daughter used to count out the segments as she put them on his plate.

Hello Marilyn,

A little young for flash cards etc.....but if you go to amazon and type in the search bar (numbers learning) there are a few more appealing items for the young eye, also reasonably priced as well......I have ordered quite a bit from Amazon this year and they are spot on with delivery.

Good hunting
Ann

Hi, please has anyone any ideas what I can get a my 14 months old grandaughter to teach numbers etc. I am getting her a baby laptop, but that teaches letters shapes and sounds. Just wondered if there was anything good (and small) out there to teach numbers, or something else educational for that age group.

I would be grateful for any ideas.

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