Kindergarten and 1st Grade Math Activities

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

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.

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

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.

Any decent Halloween celebration isn't complete without a cat. Even though this cat has an arched back to look as if it's hissing, it's still cute!

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

Encourage your child to compare and contrast a wide variety of autumn-themed items by weighing various objects and recording their findings.

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

Make a bear cave for your child to play and explore, learning about bears and winter hibernation.

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.

Whether the snow is fluffy and soft or icy and hard, a snowman is sure to inspire a smile. No wonder this snowman is so happy—it's made using marshmallows!

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

Help your kindergartener review shapes - and build early reading skills - with this creative book project.

Help your preschooler chart her good eating habits with this arts and crafts activity that has her making a healthy fruits and vegetables rainbow and graph!

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.

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

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.

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

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

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!

Here's a hands-on activity that first grade use to help kids get a feel for equations. It uses popsicle sticks to practice addition and subtraction!

This heart paper chain is the perfect way to celebrate Valentine's Day. Include some decorations in a simple AB pattern and work on pattern recognition.

This fun, addition focused take on the classic card game War is a great way to help your child get a strong hold on addition.

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

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.

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.

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

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

The objective of this science fair project is to examine the effects of temperature on salt and water solutions, as they form crystals over time.

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