Squirrel What Comes Next? Game

Each squirrel card has a number. Match the acorn card with the number that comes next.

The game has 6 pages of cards, six to a page: 18 squirrel cards and 18 acorn cards. The squirrel cards have numbers from 0 to 38, and each acorn card has the number that comes right after one of the squirrels, such as squirrel 7 and acorn 8 or squirrel 0 and acorn 1.

Squirrel & Acorn What Comes Next? Numbers Game

Ways to use it

• Use a number line: Keep a number line or hundred chart nearby so children can find the squirrel’s number and look one space to the right.
• Start small: Begin with the cards under 20, then add the cards in the 20s and 30s.
• One more: Talk about how the number that comes next is always one more, and have children prove it with counters.
• Memory game: Turn the cards face down and take turns finding a squirrel and the acorn that comes next.
• Pocket chart: Put the squirrel cards in a pocket chart and have children place each acorn card beside its squirrel.
• What comes before: Flip the game around and have children name the number that comes before each acorn.