Kindergarten - 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.

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

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.

Combine an introduction to shape and counting with a springtime art project by showing your kindergartener how to create a vibrant rainbow mosaic.

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.

Your child will enjoy getting math practice as they use bugs in addition and subtraction problems.

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.

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

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.

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

Play this game that lets you create your own silly monster drawing and helps your child practice her counting 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!