13. Pie Counting Activity

So on our preschool day - besides the cooking - we actually did some learning. I saw this awesome post WEEKS ago and couldn't wait to try it (pinned 49 weeks ago)


However, this was a little bit more labor intensive than I thought it was going to be. There was a blog post - and a link to the file - YAY! I just love those links to the file!

But this one was a black and white file. --------- but wait - that picture very obviously had color. Isn't there some clip art (you know, so I can be lazy and not do any work). No, as the dear author explained - she hand drew the pie, copied it onto brown paper and then hand colored red with a magic marker in the pie spaces.
Now ----- I have perused this blog extensively and have to defend her --- she is awesome! And the fact that she provided this template is amazing for I could have never free-handed something like that. (Why she couldn't have scanned the finished project is a question that may never be answered) BUT! I am still super grateful.

I however didn't have brown construction paper on hand (I have used it all) so in effort to not waste money - I colored my own (And WHY I didn't realize that I could have colored ONE and color-copied the rest is another burning question that may never be answered - but not wanting to waste paper after I copied 5 black and white versions - I colored the ones that I printed then made a color copy - one of the colored ones will be my template to copy from if I decide to make the rest)

I did do 0-5 in case you are wondering. 5 is the color copy. However, I realized too late that I had not colored darkly enough to scan and will have to do some touch up.

Coloring hints: When use the brown pencil, I worried about the area right at the pie plate about being within the lines, but since it was being cut out, I didn't worry about the line areas that I knew would be cut off. I also didn't worry about making sure that the red areas remained white. Since I was using pencil (and NOT crayon) I knew the marker would obscure most pencil marks and just colored over the brown pencil (besides, it gives it a more baked look).

This was a hit! They loved playing with the cotton balls. We also got some counting in (which is always great). And since I didn't have a whipped topping container lying around, I made a copy of a cool whip lid (thanks google images) and taped it on the top of a plastic round container