Early Childhood Counting Activities

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

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

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

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!

Help your child practice her counting as she makes this fun and festive holiday decoration!

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

Play this game that lets you create your own silly monster drawing and helps your child practice her counting skills!

Practice counting with this winter kindergarten art project! As your child sculpts a clay igloo, he will work on math and dexterity and learn about snow.

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.

Practice counting to100 independently with this American flag craft project! 

Put numbers and letters together -- key kindergarten math and reading skills -- while creating a marvelous game piece for outdoor play!

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

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

Use old coffee cans and socks to make a beanbag toss game for kids in preschool and kindergarten. This activity is great for math and coordination.

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

Using nothing fancier than old milk cartons and popsicle sticks, create a village full of fun learning for your kindergarten math student.

This flannel board will give your child hands-on practice with math, but in a fun format, full of ladybugs.

This Play-Doh counting game will improve your little one's math skills and the hanging Christmas trees will make great decoration.

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.

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

This fun math game will help develop your child's counting skills and number recognition skills.

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

Boost your preschooler's math and verbal skills by having her participate in simple, fun activities that teach her how to sort, count, and categorize objects.

Your preschooler or kindergartener will count their way to Valentine's Day while designing an imaginative and artistic set of counting cards!

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

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.

Your child can count out six pumpkins or six crayons, but what is a six all by itself? ThatÃs a much harder concept to grasp.

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

The garden is the perfect place to practice math and science with preschoolers. Get digging (and counting, sorting, observing at the same time!)

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