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Ask the child to make a cake for a special birthday. Specify how many candles should go on the cake.
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Ask the child to slice the cake apart, counting the cake pieces and large icing top aloud. Ask the child to reassemble the entire cake, again counting the pieces aloud.
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Turn the strawberry, gumdrop, and jelly-bean pieces face-down, shuffle them together on a play surface and arrange them neatly in a grid pattern. Two players take turns flipping over one piece at a time, adding the gumdrops and strawberries to the cake. If a player flips over a jelly-bean piece, the player loses a turn! The player who places the last topping onto the cake wins.
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Using the topping pieces, create a pattern and have the child replicate it.
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Play birthday party! Join the child in singing the birthday song and cutting pieces of cake for all the guests.