Make learning Thai numbers fun and meaningful with this hands-on My Phone craft!
This activity gives children the opportunity to practice recognising and saying Thai numbers 0–9 while creating their very own pretend phone. The familiar phone design makes the numbers feel purposeful rather than simply being something to memorize.
Learning Thai Numbers
The phone keypad features Thai numerals, giving children repeated opportunities to recognise the symbols and connect them with the numbers they already know.
Children can:
• Recognise Thai numerals ๐–๙
• Practise saying the numbers in Thai
• Match Thai numerals with their number names
• Develop number recognition
• Strengthen fine-motor skills through colouring and cutting
The bilingual headings and instructions also make this resource particularly useful for Thai-English bilingual learners and international classrooms.
Learning About Safety
The craft can also be used to introduce an important real-life skill: knowing how to contact a parent or trusted adult.
Teachers can use the finished phone to talk about:
“What is your parent’s phone number?”
Children can practice learning or recognising a parent’s phone number, particularly the digits that make up the number.
This provides a gentle introduction to personal safety and emergency awareness while keeping the activity age-appropriate and engaging.
Teacher note: For young children, it is best to practice their phone number with a parent or trusted adult rather than having children write or share personal phone numbers publicly in the classroom.
A Fun Hands-On Craft
Children can colour and cut out their phone, make a hole at the top, and thread string or yarn through it so they can wear their phone around their neck.
This makes the finished product something they can actually interact with and use during pretend play.
Great for:
• Thai number lessons
• Pretend-play activities
• Personal safety lessons
• Family vocabulary
• Number recognition
• Bilingual classrooms
• Fine-motor practice
• Kindergarten and early-years classrooms
It is a lovely way to turn number learning into something practical, playful, and memorable—while helping children begin to understand an important safety skill.
Credits & Copyright
© 2026 Sonyja Murphy. All rights reserved.
This educational resource was created by Sonyja Murphy.
Illustrations in this resource were created with the assistance of AI (ChatGPT by OpenAI) and have been edited and arranged as part of this original educational work.