Preschool - 1st Grade Place Value Activities

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

These bean bag games are a fun and inexpensive way to keep your first grader learning! Work on social skills, coordination, math, or even spelling!

Check out this interactive number line. It's a great way to strengthen your preschoolers understanding of basic numbers and the numerals that represent them.

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!

Help your child stay physically and mentally active with this group aerobic fitness game that's good for the heart and mind alike.

Candy cane ornaments bring some cheer to your Christmas tree. Make a batch of candy cane ornaments with your child to practice patterning and fine motor skills.

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

Compare and order numbers and introduce mathematical inequalities in this fun math card game.

This hands-on activity practices skip counting, a key first grade math skill. But it's silly fun!

Build this game, and give your kid some hands-on practice ordering numbers. Soon your first grade kid will be Master of the number line!

Here are some ideas for marshmallow math games you can play with your child to help teach him important concepts like estimation, area, and measurement.

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

Work on simple addition and finding even numbers in this first grade math card game.

Shake those dice and try to roll big numbers in this first grade math game. Practice addition in a new, fun way!

Have a lot of loose buttons lying around the house? Here are four ways to turn those loose buttons into an easy and positive learning experience. Button up!

This very physical game gets math off the page and into the real world-- and it works on number sense and estimation, key skills for kindergarten readiness.

This flexible activity for preschoolers features jellybeans, counting, coloring, and the five senses.

This competitive inequalities card game is a great way to help your child understand the connection between numerals and the values they represent.

Practice counting to100 independently with this American flag craft project! 

Does your child need counting help? Here's a simple game that kids can do at home to help them practice counting to two-digit numbers.

Want to help your kid with math? Get out the grab bag! This game is a great way to practice the tricky business of associating numbers with sets of objects.

First graders spend lots of time learning double digit numbers. Here's a "green" way to build skills and have some old time family fun, too.

Here's a fun math-oriented arts and crafts activity for your preschool or kindergarten child: create a gumdrop topiary and practice counting along the way.

Here's a Halloween, math activity: have your preschooler or pre-kindergartener carve shapes into a Jack-O-Lantern face and boost her shape recognition skills.

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

Here's a fun math game you can use to practice counting, addition or subtraction with your child.

Got a shoelace? Got a kindergartener? Help your child learn to use the number line by creating one out of a lace.

Celebrate the 100th day of school by making a unique work of art using 100 colorful pom poms in this fun kindergarten arts and crafts activity.

This activity is a great way to practice sorting, counting, matching, and other early math skills--- on the fly.

Finding the greatest number is great math practice! This strategic card game will help reinforce the concept of number value as well as addition facts.