Can you incorporate Ray's (fruit) suggestion above into a story such as 'Handa's Surprise'?
You could get all the fruit together in a flat edged basket(whether plastic, real or a mixture of both) as well as the different fruit that can be counted, sorted and compared (shape/size/texture/taste), you have the animals to look at as well - stripes on the zebra, pattern on the giraffe, hairy monkey, etc.
Reading a 'living' story such as this will get good interaction and you'll not feel the time is a 'trial'.
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