Are you looking for a fun way to reinforce counting and addition skills to 10 or 20? Our Trash or Treasure: Counting Feet worksheets are the resource for you! This activity is ideal to completed after reading the picture book, One is a Snail, Ten is a Crab by April Pulley Sayre and Jeff Sayre.

This engaging and hands-on set of worksheets will challenge your students to distinguish between true and false statements related to counting and addition concepts, including partitioning numbers and making combinations to 10 and 20. Students will determine if each card’s number includes a matching picture representation (treasure) or not (trash) and paste them in the correct section of the worksheet.

Prior to completing the activity, ensure that students are familiar with the included images and their number of feet:

1. Snail = 1 foot
2. Person = 2 feet
3. Dog = 4 feet
4. Insect = 6 feet
5. Spider = 8 feet
6. Crab = 10 feet

Some of the cards include multiple images that must be combined to reach the target number. For example, if the target number is 5, the picture representation could include a dog and a snail.

Trash or Treasure: Counting Feet would be a wonderful way to consolidate skills during a whole class lesson or it could be used as part of small group rotations. To extend your students further, ask them to identify addition problems that are featured on the cards and write the matching number sentences. Alternatively, they could draw their own number and picture cards to add to the Trash or Treasure worksheet. Regardless of how it is used, it is sure to engage your students.

It’s time to sort the trash from the treasure.

This resource is part of our One is a Snail, Ten is a Crab: Maths Book PACKAGE.