Make Your Own Rubber Stamp Flashcards
Here's an activity to inspire your child to learn to recognize numbers and count than by using fun and funky rubber stamps to make her own flashcards!
Play Egg Carton Addition
Using nothing fancier than and egg carton and some beans or pennies, you can play this game with your first grader and see real gains in core math skills.
Design and Create Your Own Family "Money"
With this fun craft activity, your child can design and "make" his own money, for use as currency and math practice at home.
Create an Egg Carton Color Sorter
Identifying colors is a necessary skill that people use everyday. Introduce your child to this bright new world of colors using ordinary household objects and an egg carton to sort them by color.
Ping Pong Patterns
This activity is a craft project and a math workshop all in one! Use colored ping-pong balls to encourage your child to imitate, extend, and create patterns.
Play the Build a Monster Game!
Monsters can be scary, but drawing your own makes them fun! Play this game and create your own silly monster! Your child will get her creative juices flowing, and she'll even get to practice her math. It's fun and simple, and the drawings she'll come up with will surely be a riot.
Play Pattern Hopscotch!
Creating number patterns with pencil and paper can be dull. But creating patterns with hopscotch? Exciting! Get your child's game on, and give her some math practice in the process.
Name that Number!: A Guessing Game
In the grand tradition of "I Spy," "20 Questions," and the other guessing games you may vaguely recall from your childhood, this is a do-it-anywhere, no-equipment-required diversion. Bonus: it helps reinforce number concepts.
Around the School Yard
A strong knowledge of addition facts is essential for every first grade student. Create a fun board game at home in order to review this important skill! You will need two dice, a game board print out, and place markers in order to play.
Build Animal Piggy Banks!
Learn about coins and their value by making an animal piggy bank. Here's how to make a lion, pig, or sheep bank - or you can use your imagination to create others.
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