Preschool - 2nd Grade Math Activities

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

Give your child some practice with even numbers, while creating a cute Christmas keepsake. Create this skip counting book.

Use a deck of playing cards to practice place value and other math concepts with your upper elementary child!

Grow a garden with an environmentally-friendly twist by using plant scraps that usually get thrown away.

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

Your child will love making this adorable clover clock that will help him learn how to tell time.

This imaginative art activity will help your child to better understand symmetry and explore color and shape.

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

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

Help your child improve his coin counting skills in these two math games that have him race to reach $1.00.

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

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

Shamrock Stamps are a great way to celebrate St. Patrick's Day. Simple and symmetrical, this symbol of Irish culture is the perfect shape for prints.

Turn learning fractions into a pizza party in this fun second grade math game.

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

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

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!

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

Dinosaurs were huge creatures that left behind huge footprints that lasted for millions of years. In this science fair project, kids learn how dinosaur tracks were left behind!

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.

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?

Boost shape recognition with this matching game where your child will pair up sticks to create simple shapes.

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.

Send your child on a hunt throughout the house for numbers to help develop her number recognition and ordering skills.

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

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

This simple heat transfer experiment is a great introduction to the concepts of heat transfer and conduction.

For most second graders, a good secret code is just about irresistible. Here's one that builds math facts while you're at it!

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.

Play with shapes, like triangles and circles, to help your child review the different kinds and create a new picture!