Preschool - 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.

Does your child love toy cars? Here’s a terrific way for them to play with their toy cars and practice number recognition skills at the same time.

This Halloween, encourage your child to create a super sweet mosaic. They'll make a candy corn pumpkin and then decide if they want to eat it, or keep it!

Halloween is approaching, so why not create some ghost flash cards that will help your child learn their numbers the spooky way?

This activity spotlights everyone's favorite reindeer, Rudolph, and preserves your child's handprints in his "antlers".

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!

Using a fruit cereal and yarn, help your preschooler create crunchy, edible patterns.

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.

Building a rocket ship is a great way for kids to learn about measuring and construction. It'll fuel their creative side too!

Try a 100th Day of School Scavenger Hunt with your preschooler, and send her on the search for objects of different colors!

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?

Play this hidden number game with your preschooler that will give her a leg up in learning numbers.

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.