I found this really great article on teaching Maths from the beginning:
Children are naturally visual and can build relationships between numbers and represented items. According to the National Centre for Infants, Toddlers, and Families, using rs to help representation or pictures to clarify a relationship is making the use of mathematics real to a child.
Early childhood education should focus on representing numbers with items, picture or even family members. For example, learning the basics of counting can use pictures of apples or their favorite fruit to help children recognize that number represents the number depicted.
Teaching through representation or pictures will allow children to make connections between the real world and the Math skills that are vital to academic success. Without making a connection between life and Math, children can become confused about information represented.
Below is a great example of a worksheet that represents pictures with numbers:
Below is also a good example of cards that you could make that represent the idea of numbers with pictures:
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