Early Childhood Counting Activities

Here's a tasty way to give your child some counting practice.

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

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!

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

Your child will practice her counting and number recognition as she matches printed numbers to the same number of repetitions of a simple design.

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

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

Counting with one-to-one correspondence is an important kindergarten math skill. This simple activity turns it into a play-anywhere game.

Play this game to help froggie hop home...and teach the number line to your kindergartener while you're at it!

The Kindergarten Personal Record Book makes measurement fun & active! Kids record their vital statistics from head to toe using unusual tools like paper clips.

You kid can count from one to ten, no problem. They can even do it backward. Work on their addition and subtraction skills with this fun fruit picking activity.

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

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

The garden is the perfect place to practice math and science with preschoolers. Get digging (and counting, sorting, observing at the same time!)

Help your child see numbers three ways with this simple grab-and-go game, great for quick practice in the car.

Help your child build ice cream cones as she practices her counting skills

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Practice counting, sequencing, and pattern recognition with your young learner in this fun math card game!

Create a counting book, in order from 1-30, to help your child figure out a variety of ways of recognizing and representing numbers.

Use old coffee cans and socks to make a beanbag toss game for kids in preschool and kindergarten. This activity is great for math and coordination.

Boost your preschooler's math and verbal skills by having her participate in simple, fun activities that teach her how to sort, count, and categorize objects.

Practice counting to100 independently with this American flag craft project! 

Help your child identify numbers with this fun preschool math art activity! Explore different textures and colors as he learns numbers.

Using nothing fancier than old milk cartons and popsicle sticks, create a village full of fun learning for your kindergarten math student.

In this fun snack-time activity, kids boost counting, sorting, and color recognition skills as they make a delicious and nutritious snack.

Familiarize your preschooler with the concept of numbers one through five and counting with this hands-on activity.