Edible Number Recognition Game

The morning was starting to get away from us, and the girls were asking for a snack.  Yet still I wanted to work with them on number recognition.  Soon in our piano lessons they will start to number the fingers, so I want to make sure that both girls can recognize the numerals 1-5.  Rather than try to fit in one more thing before giving them a snack, I created this little number game to make snack time educational. 

*Step 1: cut a piece of blue construction paper in half lengthwise.
*Step 2: free-hand cut waves into the one long side of the paper.
*Step 3: write numbers 1,2,3,4,5 (or whatever numbers you want to work
             on) evenly spaced on the paper.
*Step 4: using a green crayon draw wavy vertical lines to create seaweed
             between each of the numbers.
*Step 5: fill a small bowl with 15 GoldFish

Object: For the child to recognize each numeral and place the correct number of GoldFish in the correct part of the sea.

Preparation time: 5 minutes (more or less depending on the number of helpers that you have)