💡 15 Counting Carnival Ideas

In small teams, students quickly brainstorm as many different station ideas as possible (goal: 15+) that help visitors use fingers, toys, drawings, or movement to solve addition within 5. Students use picture cards, manipulatives (counters, toy animals, finger puppets), and large chart paper to sketch simple idea pictures. After brainstorming, teams act out 2–3 ideas using objects to ensure each idea clearly shows two parts and a whole.