Early Childhood Counting Activities : Page 2

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.

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

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

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

Here's a tasty way to give your child some counting practice.

Here's a fun math game you can use to practice counting, addition or subtraction with your child.

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

Make this paper chain calendar and give your child a visual reminder of the passing of time.

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

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.

Let your child lend a helping hand while decorating the Christmas tree this year! This festive activity doubles as a lesson focusing on the number five.

Learn how to count in Spanish. Your child will practice her numbers and build her reading skills while learning a bit about Latino culture along the way.

This very physical game gets math off the page and into the real world-- and it works on number sense and estimation, key skills for kindergarten readiness.

Help your child make an imaginative, inexpensive spaceship from recycled materials. When the spaceship is ready, count backwards from ten and then BLAST-OFF!

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

Your preschooler will not realize she's practicing her counting skills while playing with this interactive cereal abacus!

If your preschooler needs counting practice, try this pared-down game. Kids count clips in each cup and find the playing card to match.

Serve up this pretend play activity to your preschooler to give her counting skills a healthy boost.

Do this fun activity that uses stickers to help your kindergartener with counting, basic addition, and one-to-one correspondence.

Ordinal numbers, or numbers that indicate order, are the focus of this fun math game for young learners.

Play this game to help froggie hop home...and teach the number line to your kindergartener while you're at it!

This flexible activity for preschoolers features jellybeans, counting, coloring, and the five senses.

Help your child learn her numbers and how to count with this fun number game!

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

The Kindergarten Personal Record Book makes measurement fun & active! Kids record their vital statistics from head to toe using unusual tools like paper clips.

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

Help your kindergartener practice counting from one to ten with this fun outdoor activity. Make a "My Backyard Counting Book" to review counting to ten.

Practice counting, sequencing, and pattern recognition with your young learner in this fun math card game!

Do a little kitchen chemistry as you make your own bubble solution and bubble-wand shapes!

In this activity, your child will learn to name the numbers from 1 through 5 and she'll practice her grouping skills.