Early Childhood Math Activities : Page 3

Sponges are easy to handle and fun to play with, and your child will love putting these simple, three-piece puzzles together.

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

This copying game is like a hopped up version of Simon Says, but it lets kids use their bodies to practice patterning, a key skill in early math.

In this activity, you child will learn about how heat changes food. On the next sunny day, head outdoors to make a treat in an outside oven! Here's how:

Here are some ideas for marshmallow math games you can play with your child to help teach him important concepts like estimation, area, and measurement.

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.

Bring the classic game of "Red Rover" up to date with color and shape recognition skills for your child.

Learning to identify and categorize different geometric shapes is a big goal for early learners. And your neighborhood is the perfect place to start!

Have fun with the kids by "shaping up" your standard chocolate chip cookie recipe, and teach kids about sorting and shapes while you're at it.

Play this fun math numbers game with your kindergartener! Practice following instructions as you roll the dice and count.

Create a counting book, in order from 1-30, to help your child figure out a variety of ways of recognizing and representing numbers.

This activity turns your kid into the family weatherman. Plus, it teaches him to collect data and begin to understand graphing.

Celebrate Chinese New Year by teaching your child how to use chopsticks! She'll build her math and fine motor skills as she does this activity.

This activity will help your child build his early math skills by practicing shape recognition.

Forget the measuring stick! This fun math activity uses a body part, your child's hand, as a ruler.

Help your child see numbers three ways with this simple grab-and-go game, great for quick practice in the car.

Grab some dice and play this take on tic-tac-toe. Itâs easy to set up and your child will have a blast.

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!

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

Build your child's vocabulary by exploring and discussing spatial relationships during everyday activities such as building, rearranging, and ordering.

Make caterpillars out of papier-mache and let the kids explore their inner creepy crawler.

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

Strengthen your child's number recognition skills with this fun game using an old, empty egg carton!

This activity is a fun way to "go fishing" with your preschooler, while learning about the concepts of freezing and melting.

Your child will practice her counting and number recognition as she matches printed numbers to the same number of repetitions of a simple design.

Disguise a lesson focused on shape recognition as a Santa collage, and your pre-kindergartener won't even realize she's learning!

Does the idea of taking your child to an art museum sound daunting? Create your own museum and give your child some practice with shapes!

Counting with one-to-one correspondence is an important kindergarten math skill. This simple activity turns it into a play-anywhere game.

You don't need to spend big bucks to buy a pre-boxed version of a matching game at the store. You can make your own easily. Here's how:

Have a lot of loose buttons lying around the house? Here are four ways to turn those loose buttons into an easy and positive learning experience. Button up!