Birthday Unit Balloons

Birthday Balloons Activities for Kindergarten ESL | Vocabulary, Colors & Games, available here:   https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Birthday-Unit-for-Kindergarten-Holistic-English-Series-14-6655450

Balloons are a perfect way to teach vocabulary, colors, and simple sentences in a playful and meaningful context. Young learners love working with balloons, making them an ideal tool for hands-on ESL activities.

In this post, you’ll find easy birthday balloon activities to help your students practice vocabulary, improve speaking skills, and stay motivated while learning English.

Introducing the Birthday Balloon Vocabulary

Starting with the flashcards. Place them on the board and have the students write the numeral next to each one. Review the numbers as you count the balloons. Say sentences: There are six balloons!

There is the set of the numeral ESL Birthday balloons for the students to match to numbers words flashcards. 

I always add small cards for groups of 4 or 5 children. Print as many as you need. Students can match as the number words balloons and the numeral balloons. Also, review the colors with the balloons. 

Birthday Unit for Kindergarten Balloon Games for ESL

Let’s play the tower game

I’ve been seeing it in several Instagram accounts and you can tell that stduents love it.Students will build the tower with plastic cups as they say the number on each card.

Cut the word out of the small card and students have to match them.

Use fun foam pieces or any other object that you have for the students to cover the card as you say the number. Number nine!

I collected yogurt bottle caps and wrote a number on each one with a sharpie marker. Students will match the caps to each card. Using plastic bottle caps is largely used now for fun, hands-on games.

A video as a summary of all you can do with the small cards.

Counting Balloons Activity

Use it as a matching mat, by matching the number word cards to the balloons bunch.

Take a look: 

One-to-One Correspondence Interactive File Folder Game

Review number words and one-to-one correspondence with this engaging file folder game. To prepare the activity, simply glue the templates onto a manila file folder. This game can be assembled in two different ways. You can glue the number words onto the folder and have students match the balloon quantity cards to the correct number word, or glue the balloon quantity cards onto the folder and have students match the number word cards instead.

As students play, they count the balloons, identify the matching number word, and place the correct card on the file folder. Encourage them to say the number aloud each time they make a match. This simple hands-on activity  reinforces number recognition and number words.

Since the game can be prepared in either format, it provides extra variety and can be used multiple times throughout the year as a fun math center or independent review activity for young learners.

Just had to try this activity with an egg holder. I saw it on social media. I used the cards from the file folder game. I glued the balloon cards onto a craft stick. I cut a slit on the egg holder to introduce the puppet. I cut the number words from the other cards and glued them randomly. I wrote the numeral with a sharpie. This depends on your students if you want to write the number or not. Start matching!

This is how I assembled the activity:

And using the letters provided in the resource, students can write the numbers words as part of their counting literacy.

Another video to see:

You can’t miss the set of birthday worksheets to practice number sense as they count the set of balloons to the corresponding number. 

Include this activity to develop numerical literacy in your students.Make a poster using the material gluing the numbers in a sequence. Have the students say each number as they glue the sequence.

 

The worksheets video insight:

ESL Birthday Worksheets for Kindergarten: Vocabulary, Colors & Numbers, blog post here:   https://eflpreschoolteachers.blogspot.com/2021/03/birthday-unit-worksheets-for.html

I used the Ballon Victory font from Creative Fabrica. There is a link on the side bar as I am an affiliate.

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