How Many Feet Tall are You? Pre-K Activity

For the feet I used the cardboard inserts you find when you buy sock liners, although you could also choose to make your own. For a chart I used cardboard and a sheet of scrapbooking paper.

During the activity, we took turns measuring each other with the feet. One child would lie on the ground on their back and the other child would measure them by lining up the feet next to them and counting. After taking our measurements, we recorded our heights on the chart, which we will be putting up in our classroom. We even measured myself to see how tall I was (7 feet...according to the cut out feet anyway)!

We even used the foot cutouts to measure other objects in our classroom, like posters, tables, and shelves.

"Are you longer or shorter than _____?"

"How many feet do you think this will be?"

It is easy with math and literacy to turn to over-used tabletop (or worse, workbook) activities, but by using real objects and involving their whole bodies, we can teach these concepts more successfully and have fun doing it!

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