Addition Dice Game

This evening Lillian and I played a very simple dice game together.  I got out two regular dice for us to use.  We took turns rolling the dice and then adding the dots on the two dice up.  Sometimes she knew the answer by looking, other times she counted on her fingers, and sometimes she counted the dots on the dice to come up with the answer.  All of these solutions are perfectly fine.  A couple times we rolled two even numbers, so after coming up with the answer, I pointed out that we could count by two's and still come up with the same answer. She enjoyed the game and we played it for about 10 minutes.  At this age (5 years old now), most activities will be short due to their short attention span and that is ok too!  I loved that their wasn't any prep required and that the only supplies needed were two dice.    An idea for an extension or older child: after playing the game a few times so they could get the hang of it, they could make a tally sheet/graph as the game is played so they could see what sum came up the most!