Early Childhood Math Activities

Take the spookiness out of spiders with this web-making activity! Your child will practice talking about and creating shapes in this Halloween craft, and learn about spiders along the way.

Any decent Halloween celebration isn't complete without a cat. Even though this cat has an arched back to look as if it's hissing, it's still cute!

Encourage your child to compare and contrast a wide variety of autumn-themed items by weighing various objects and recording their findings.

Help your child learn science and math skills like sorting, sequencing, and ordering while taking a nature walk and collecting and collaging leaves.

Does your child love toy cars? Here’s a terrific way for them to play with their toy cars and practice number recognition skills at the same time.

This Halloween, encourage your child to create a super sweet mosaic. They'll make a candy corn pumpkin and then decide if they want to eat it, or keep it!

Halloween is approaching, so why not create some ghost flash cards that will help your child learn their numbers the spooky way?

This activity spotlights everyone's favorite reindeer, Rudolph, and preserves your child's handprints in his "antlers".

Make a bear cave for your child to play and explore, learning about bears and winter hibernation.

Celebrate the 100th day of school by creating a geometric, math-inspired mural in the style of Henri Matisse in this creative kindergarten grade art activity.

Whether the snow is fluffy and soft or icy and hard, a snowman is sure to inspire a smile. No wonder this snowman is so happy—it's made using marshmallows!

Using a fruit cereal and yarn, help your preschooler create crunchy, edible patterns.

Take math off the page and into the real world. This simple game gives kindergarten kids hands-on practice with basic addition.

Help your kindergartener review shapes - and build early reading skills - with this creative book project.

Building a rocket ship is a great way for kids to learn about measuring and construction. It'll fuel their creative side too!

Try a 100th Day of School Scavenger Hunt with your preschooler, and send her on the search for objects of different colors!

Help your preschooler chart her good eating habits with this arts and crafts activity that has her making a healthy fruits and vegetables rainbow and graph!

Play this hidden number game with your preschooler that will give her a leg up in learning numbers.

This project commemorates the milestone of completing the first 100 days of school, while giving your child a manipulative to practice counting to 100.

Try this new twist to the traditional memory game to help your learner match number symbols to the correct quantity while sharpening their memory skills!

This fun, addition focused take on the classic card game War is a great way to help your child get a strong hold on addition.

This experiment works due to a simple principle: plants need light. Build a shoebox maze and watch the plant work though the obstacle course, searching for sun.

Get your preschooler ready for kindergarten by helping them learn numbers 1-10 with homemade snowflake counting cards in this arts and crafts activity.

Play with shapes, like triangles and circles, to help your child review the different kinds and create a new picture!

Help your child build ice cream cones as she practices her counting skills

Bring some winter fun into your home while your child practices her number matching skills with this adorable snowman math game.

Here's a fun math-oriented arts and crafts activity for your preschool or kindergarten child: create a gumdrop topiary and practice counting along the way.

You kid can count from one to ten, no problem. They can even do it backward. Work on their addition and subtraction skills with this fun fruit picking activity.

Check out this interactive number line. It's a great way to strengthen your preschoolers understanding of basic numbers and the numerals that represent them.

In this simple math activity, your young learner will compare two types of Valentine's Day candy using a Venn diagram.