This Number Blocks to 10 resource is designed to support Early Years and Key Stage 1 learners in developing early maths skills, including number recognition, counting, and links to shape and pattern.
The colour flashcards can be cut out, laminated, and used for a wide range of practical activities: Children can build numbers using coloured blocks, paste sticky coloured paper squares to match the number shapes, or use the flashcards for matching and counting games.
Page 2 provides the same flashcards in black and white, allowing children to use them as a worksheet—tracing, colouring with crayons, or constructing numbers using manipulatives.
Pages 3, 4, and 5 introduce squared grids with modelled numbers (1–4, 5–7, and 8–10), helping children explore number formation through visual structure.
The final page offers a blank squared grid for children to create their own numbers, draw, or build using squares.
The grid also supports wider learning opportunities: children can add a given number of blocks and record the numeral, write number words, create patterns and shapes, explore simple addition (e.g. 3 blocks + 2 blocks), or even design pictures using squares.
This resource encourages hands-on learning, creativity, and strong foundations in early mathematical understanding.