1st and 2nd Grade Math Activities

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Blend science and math to explore a very important first grade social studies question: does our planet contain more land or more water?

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.

Here's an Easter themed math game to reinforce your child's logical reasoning and place value skills.

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

Here's a fun math and science activity: help your child explore four different kinds of measurement, using their hand and a few simple household tools.

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

In this insulation experiment, you'll learn which clothes keep you warm in the cold, and which make you shiver.

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

Create equations in this strategic math card game. Your second or third grader can practice addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division in a new way!

Forget store-bought dyes this Easter: color your Easter eggs with natural dyes made with ingredients from your own kitchen in this 1st grade activity.

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

Countries all around the world have been using the abacus for thousands of years to make math easier. Have your kid make his own abacus to practice arithmetic.

Have some fun with your first or second grader, looking for creative ways that 100 cents can make $1.00!

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Thanksgiving placemats are a great craft for your kid, and a beautiful addition to the dinner table. Make Thanksgiving placemats with your kid for the holiday.