Early Childhood Place Value Activities

This Halloween, encourage your child to create a super sweet mosaic. They'll make a candy corn pumpkin and then decide if they want to eat it, or keep it!

Check out this interactive number line. It's a great way to strengthen your preschoolers understanding of basic numbers and the numerals that represent them.

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

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.

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.

Practice counting to100 independently with this American flag craft project! 

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

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.

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.

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

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!

Got a shoelace? Got a kindergartener? Help your child learn to use the number line by creating one out of a lace.

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.

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

Here's a Halloween, math activity: have your preschooler or pre-kindergartener carve shapes into a Jack-O-Lantern face and boost her shape recognition skills.

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

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!

Does your child need counting help? Here's a simple game that kids can do at home to help them practice counting to two-digit numbers.

Celebrate the 100th day of school by making a unique work of art using 100 colorful pom poms in this fun kindergarten arts and crafts activity.

Guessing is more than pure fun, it's also a key part of kindergarten math. Here's a fun way to bring estimation to the breakfast table.