1st and 2nd Grade Math Activities

Your child will love making this adorable clover clock that will help him learn how to tell time.

Use a deck of playing cards to practice place value and other math concepts with your upper elementary child!

This activity is based on the popular card game, Slapjack. It's rip-roaring fun, and it reinforces the concepts of odd and even.

Prepare for some scary Halloween counting practice! This game encourages players to knock down cylinders and then add to determine their scores.

Help your child learn science and math skills like sorting, sequencing, and ordering while taking a nature walk and collecting and collaging leaves.

This activity will put those Halloween treats to good use by using candy corn to help your child with her subtraction skills.

In this hands-on craft project, kids will make an analog clock of their own, and then use it to learn how to tell time.

Take the spookiness out of spiders with this web-making activity! Your child will practice talking about and creating shapes in this Halloween craft, and learn about spiders along the way.

Why doesn't the ocean freeze? Students answer this question by simulating the chemical composition and temperature of arctic waters in their own home.

Help your child improve his coin counting skills in these two math games that have him race to reach $1.00.

Enjoy this kid-friendly recipe for Irish soda bread, just in time for St. Patrick's Day!

This project determines whether Styrofoam, paper, or plastic cups are best for preventing ice from melting.

Get estimating with this spooky activity that asks your young mathematician to rely on their problem-solving skills to figure out how many items they believe are in spooky Halloween jars!

Play this "subtraction war" card game with your second grader and watch his math facts mastery leap forward!

Kids will learn how to make a thermometer to to explore liquid density in this great science fair project. Which liquids are affected by temperature the most?

Encourage your kindergartener to investigate and chronicle the weather she observes during the coldest months of the year.

Celebrate 100 fantastic days of school by creating a school-themed collage with 100 pieces in this unique arts and crafts activity.

Try this fun math card game and practice place value with your second grader! Decide which number is bigger in order to earn points!

Turn learning fractions into a pizza party in this fun second grade math game.

When you rub a balloon on your head, your hair stands up; but is that true for everyone? Does hair color affect static electricity?

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.

Review fractions with your budding mathematician when you play this fun, educational math board game.

Learn how starch and carbohydrates interact with different solvents in this fun and easy packing peanut science fair project.

Playing a tactile game with multiplication will help your child get a better grasp of basic math concepts and transform your kid into a master multiplier.

This simple heat transfer experiment is a great introduction to the concepts of heat transfer and conduction.

Run, jump, and skip your way to physical fitness as your exercise with dice! It's a perfect party or family game.

Learn how to make a paper snowflake with these simple instructions. Help your child learn how to make a paper snowflake with only paper and scissors.

For most second graders, a good secret code is just about irresistible. Here's one that builds math facts while you're at it!

Make counting coins make "cents" to your second grader while giving her the chance to practice her math skills by playing this fun game with her.

This caterpillar math game gets your child to work on addition and subtraction. Challenge your child's math prowess with this fast-paced caterpillar math game.