Find and Count with Summer

Here the page is a scene of summer things, and the child has jobs to do: circle the kite, count the beach, cross out the tent and draw a box around the strawberry. Each sends the eye hunting for one kind of picture among many, deciding what matches and acting on it. Choosing to circle the kite first, the child practises picking a target out of a busy scene of the sun, an ice cream and a beach ball and counting carefully — visual attention and number sense growing side by side.

Picking out and counting one kind of picture from a crowd builds the careful eye and the one-to-one counting that early learning rests on. The jobs here — circle the kite, count the beach, cross out the tent and draw a box around the strawberry — make the child search the summer things scene repeatedly, each time for a new target, deciding what matches and keeping a tally. It is gentle, concrete work, but it is exactly the visual attention and number practice Kindergarten is meant to grow.

Children who like a busy summer things scene enjoy working down the jobs, and finishing each one — the marking, the crossing out, the counting — gives a clear win. When this feels easy, try Find and Count with thanksgiving, or Find and Count with toys. You can also browse every Find and Count worksheet or the whole summer things collection for kindergarten — each sheet prints cleanly or plays online for free, and the more a child searches and counts, the sharper their eye for finding what matters becomes.