Kindergarten - 2nd Grade Math Activities

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.

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!

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

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

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.

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.

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!

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

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

Celebrate Chinese New Year by teaching your child how to use chopsticks! She'll build her math and fine motor skills as she does this activity.

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

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

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!

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.

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

Make the abstract nature of time and money easier for your kid to understand with some fun ideas that focus on these concepts.

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.

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!

Why do plants wilt? Kids will learn to think critically about what environmental factors affect plants, and what plants need to survive.

Give your second grader a chance to get his feet wet with measurement before he moves onto the more complicated stuff by trying this activity with him at home.

Get back into school with this exciting architecture exploration! In this craft activity your child will research, draw, and build his own school.

Show your kindergartener how to count to 100 by tens, and he'll get an adorable cheerio necklace in the process!

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

There's nothing like a treasure hunt to get kids excited about math and sorting.

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.