Early Childhood Measurement Activities

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

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

Your child can create his own texture tree, experimenting with design during the process. The result will be a beautiful addition to your holiday decorations

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 practice her counting as she makes this fun and festive holiday decoration!

This measurement activity uses feet to compare objects, but not the ones found on rulers and measuring sticks...the feet on your child's own body!

Make a bear cave for your child to play and explore, learning about bears and winter hibernation.

This activity is a fun way to "go fishing" with your preschooler, while learning about the concepts of freezing and melting.

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.

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!

These handmade Christmas treat cups are perfect for house parties, school celebrations, and holiday bake sales.

This activity turns your kid into the family weatherman. Plus, it teaches him to collect data and begin to understand graphing.

In this simple and social activity, children use size comparison skills to find objects in nature that are bigger, smaller, longer, and shorter.

This do-it-anywhere guessing game helps reinforce number concepts. And it's a blast to play.

Try this fun garden graphing project with your kindergartener this summer to give him a leg up in math and science while spending some valuable time outdoors!

This cookie dough handles like molding clay, but also makes delicious cookies. Use this activity to strengthen your child's alphabet skills.

Help your kids fall in love with nature by making a simple clay bird bath. Set it up in your yard and watch the animals venture in for a sip of water.

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

These pretzel reindeer cookies are a great holiday recipe for kids to make. Rudolph and the whole gang agree!

Why do plants wilt? Kids will learn to think critically about what environmental factors affect plants, and what plants need to survive.

Preschoolers are fascinated by how colors can be mixed to form new ones. This activity combines color mixing with the concept of melting for extra science fun.

Let your preschooler create something cute while making something delicious to eat: create bread sculptures, or shapes of bread dough!

Thousands of witches that come out to celebrate Halloween. Now, your child can make her very own self-standing witch.

Encourage imagination and creativity with this magical craft that lets your child make and design his very own dragon egg.

A fun activity for a hot day, this will give young kids a chance to experiment with beginning science and math â and splash around in the process!

Challenge your preschooler to a game of shape match-up--an entertaining way to boost her observational ability.

Help your preschooler grasp the concept of ordering and sequence while teaching him valuable vocabulary with simple activities around the house.

Invite your kindergartener to explore the bright new world of measurement by starting out with nonstandard (and tasty!) units, such as gummy bears or worms.

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.

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