Early Childhood Math Activities : Page 3

This cookie dough handles like molding clay, but also makes delicious cookies. Use this activity to strengthen your child's alphabet skills.

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

Want to add a little craftiness to preschool math? Break out the glue gun and create a button board!

Preschoolers are fascinated by how colors can be mixed to form new ones. This activity combines color mixing with the concept of melting for extra science fun.

This hands-on activity that involves arranging pieces of yarn will teach your pre-K child the concept of ordering items by length in an interesting way.

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.

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.

Challenge your preschooler to a game of shape match-up--an entertaining way to boost her observational ability.

This engaging, fun, pattern resist painting is inspired by your little one's love of shapes.

In this activity your little one will throw a beanbag at a numbered target to help improve her number recognition skills.

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.

This do-it-anywhere guessing game helps reinforce number concepts. And it's a blast to play.

Teach your preschooler color recognition using this handy egg carton sorter. She will group objects by color and learn to recognize their names with this tool.

Use this fun spin-off of Bingo to help your child practice number recognition and listening skills!

Challenge your kindergartener to finding out if a coin toss is really fair by conducting this coin toss experiment.

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!

Your child will enjoy getting math practice as they use bugs in addition and subtraction problems.

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

Candy cane ornaments bring some cheer to your Christmas tree. Make a batch of candy cane ornaments with your child to practice patterning and fine motor skills.

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

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

Shamrock Stamps are a great way to celebrate St. Patrick's Day. Simple and symmetrical, this symbol of Irish culture is the perfect shape for prints.

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

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.

Check out this twist on a peanut butter and banana sandwich. The banana replaces the bread to make the perfect fun and nutritious after-school snack.

Make an edible bracelet from Froot Loops and a shoelace! This Block Institute art activity will engage your special needs or mainstream child at snacktime.

Help your child stay physically and mentally active with this group aerobic fitness game that's good for the heart and mind alike.

This imaginative art activity will help your child to better understand symmetry and explore color and shape.

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

A plastic tray is the perfect tool to teach your little one how to count. Try out this activity, and your child will have her numbers down in no time.