Early Childhood Math Activities : Page 3

Pump up the learning level of your kindergartener's summer break by playing patriotic bingo when July 4th rolls around.

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.

Make a mixed up animal collage and help your preschooler build her visual arts and math skills along the way.

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

Here's a preschool color collage activity to help your child work on their sorting skills, and create a beautiful addition to the refrigerator gallery.

Help your child learn the language of mathematics through cupcakes with this fun counting activity.

This spider hat activity challenges your child to learn about spiders and improve fine motor skills. Make a spider hat with your child on Halloween or any time.

Master reading numbers aloud with your first grader in this math card game.

In this fun snack-time activity, kids boost counting, sorting, and color recognition skills as they make a delicious and nutritious snack.

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

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

Your child will learn more about coins and their denominations as he's asked to identify similar coins.

When your child is itching for a game, consider ditching Hide and Seek in favor of Shape and Seek. Here's how it works:

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!

Give your child some practice with even numbers, while creating a cute Christmas keepsake. Create this skip counting book.

Send your child on a hunt throughout the house for numbers to help develop her number recognition and ordering skills.

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.

This activity is a great way to practice sorting, counting, matching, and other early math skills--- on the fly.

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!

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

There's nothing like a treasure hunt to get kids excited about math and sorting.

Make a Christmas countdown calendar to get your child excited about the coming holiday. This Christmas countdown calendar helps you make holiday memories.

Try this fun and interactive collage activity with your preschooler to teach her the "building blocks" of math and architecture.

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

Familiarize your preschooler with the concept of numbers one through five and counting with this hands-on activity.

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

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

Want to help your kid with math? Get out the grab bag! This game is a great way to practice the tricky business of associating numbers with sets of objects.

Reuse old cardboard boxes and popsicle sticks to create a miniature sled that is perfect for pretend play with dolls or action figures.

These bean bag games are a fun and inexpensive way to keep your first grader learning! Work on social skills, coordination, math, or even spelling!