Zoo Calendar Numbers for Preschoolers

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Add these FREE Zoo Calendar Numbers to your calendar display during this month or as part of your zoo animal theme. You can also use them to teach and practice multiple early math skills with your preschoolers.

This printable includes the numbers 0 to 35, with different zoo scenes, that are colorful but simple. You can get a copy of this printable at the bottom of this post.

Other Ways to Use These Zoo Calendar Numbers

These Zoo Calendar Numbers can be used as part of your linear and traditional classroom calendar this month or as part of your Zoo Animals theme. They are also very useful for preschoolers to practice several skills such as:

Number Sequence – Have your preschoolers practice their number sequence, by inviting them to organize the numbers from 1 to 31 in ascending form. Once they know how to do this, challenge them to do it in descending form.

Number Formation / Fine Motor – Have them practice tracing the numbers using dry-erase markers.

Memory and Concentration – Print two sets and use them as a matching game.

Writing / Fine Motor – Have them use the numbers as visual cues in the sensory writing tray.

One-to-One Correspondence, Counting, and Matching – Have them look at a number, and count small manipulatives like buttons, counting chips, pom poms, mini zoo animals, and mini erasers, to match it with. You can also have them match the number on the card with magnetic numbers.

Writing / Fine Motor – Have them copy the numbers using crayons, markers, or pencils.

Addition and Subtraction – Use them to do simple addition and subtraction exercises.

Use them as a send-home activity, and add them to your Math, Writing, and Quiet Centers.

How to Prep the Zoo Calendar Numbers

These easy-to-prep calendar numbers only need a printer, white cardstock, scissors, a laminator, and laminating sheets to get them ready.

However, if you want to use them for the activities I suggested above as well, you will need additional materials such as buttons, counting chips, pom poms, mini zoo animals, mini erasers, pencils, crayons, markers, sand, magnetic numbers, dry-erase markers.

Zoo Animal Storybooks

Below are some of my favorite books about zoo animals. You can find them at your local library, used book store, and on Amazon. For your convenience, I added my affiliate links to the pictures, for fast and easy access. Get as many as you can, read them to your preschoolers, and fill your library and centers with them.

Zoo Time by D. S. Park. This book uses stunning illustrations to bring the zoo’s animals to life.

The View at the Zoo by Kathleen Long Bostrom. With a clever twist and a new, sturdy board book format, this book will have children begging for a trip to the zoo to see the animals in person.

1, 2, 3 to the Zoo by Eric Carle. This book combines simple counting with unusual illustrations of animals. counting.

I Want to Be a Zookeeper by Dan Liebman. This book is a realistic insight into the working day of a zookeeper, using color photographs, to help children understand what’s involved in this job, learn to respect the importance of doing a job well, and appreciate the contributions these workers make in the zoo animal lives.

It’s a Crazy Day at the Zoo by Stacey Lee Doyle. This is an exciting and entertaining tale designed to captivate the imaginations of children.

Lou’s Zoo and Winston Too by JoAnn M. Dickinson. This book beautifully illustrates the value of embracing our differences and accepting one another just as we are, using lovable zoo animals, each with their unique personalities.

A Visit to the Zoo by Blake A. Hoena. The text and photographs in this book take children on a visit to the zoo including descriptions of the things, people, and animals found there.

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I hope you enjoy these free Zoo Calendar Numbers, and if they help your preschoolers develop the math skills mentioned above a little further. To get the FREE Zoo Calendar Numbers, you just have to click on the link below.

Be happy, safe, and creative. I wish you well.

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