These ladybird spots activity sheets are easy to print off and use straight away, and look best printed off in colour to get the vibrant red colour of the ladybird coming through.

The resource works well as it gives your children a visual aid to benefit their counting, this will aid your visual learners. Having an image in their heads will help your children to improve their ideas of addition and subtraction in a physical space, as they count the spots placed on the ladybird. Maths is one of the four specific areas of the EYFS, each area is split into early learning goals. The two early learning goals for maths are: If you're looking for a fun way to integrate some maths learning into your child's everyday routine, we have included some great ideas below for you to try out at home: Having a mental image in their heads will help them to improve their ideas of addition and subtraction in a physical space, by counting the spots placed on the ladybird.This ladybird count to 20 activity is really versatile, too! They're great maths visual aids for your child to use while learning maths at home and look pretty hung up in a learning corner. We have a similar ladybird counting activity hereif you'd like some variety or different illustrations.

If you want to focus more on subtraction, why not do the same but get them to take away one of the ladybirds to make the number you suggest. Have a look at our Minibeast Themed One Less Counting Activity for more subtraction worksheets.This lovely ladybird count to 20 activity is a great way to help your child develop their confidence in counting. The illustrations are hand-drawn and vibrant, perfect to be used in and around the classroom to brighten things up. Share with Teddy - Perhaps your child can share their toys with their favourite teddy? Count the toys out 'one for me' and 'one for you'. Afterwards count how many toys your child and her teddy has and how much they have altogether! Children will practise counting the number of spots on colourful ladybirds. which will give them plenty of opportunities to count up to 10 objects that can’t be moved. There will be lots of opportunities to talk about maths and discuss their thinking.

You can do subtraction or addition sums using the spots on the Ladybird Pictures. As a starter activity, you could mix up the ladybird images and get your kids to make different numbers by putting two or more of the ladybirds together and counting up their spots. Peek-a-Bug Insect Alphabet Printable– four abc games to help kids learn their ABCs, match upper and lowercase letters, and more! A ladybird is an insect found throughout nature across most of the planet. Ladybirds live on all six habitable continents and there are 5,000 different types! In North America, they are known as 'ladybugs'.

This lovely ladybird counting activity is perfect for teaching numeracy in your maths lessons, helping your pupils get to grips with number and place value.