Key Stage 1 Numeracy Homework
Reception Number Recognition
"Balloon Game"

What will this game will achieve?
This activity will help your child to recognise and name colours.  It will also give them practice with counting and matching.

You will need:

                                                       
How do you play?

• Place all the coloured balloon shapes on the picture and the 'sold' tags in a pile on the table.
• Take it in turns to throw the die
• Take a balloon picture to match the colour thrown and replace it with a 'sold' tag
• If a colour is thrown and both balloons of that colour have already been sold, then the player has to wait for his next turn
• At the end of the game, when all the 'sold' tags have been used, the players count out the number of balloon pictures they have won.