Preschool Math Activities : Page 2

Is your kid struggling with number recognition? Here's a great way to go fishing for numbers that will feel more like play than counting practice.

Cornucopia still life painting is a great activity for your young artist to look at light and shadow, textures and composition in creating art at Thanksgiving!

Help your preschooler or preschooler with shape recognition, math, and matching by creating your own personal shapes cards, good for home or car.

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

Teach your preschooler color recognition using this handy egg carton sorter. She will group objects by color and learn to recognize their names with this tool.

This Play-Doh counting game will improve your little one's math skills and the hanging Christmas trees will make great decoration.

Disguise a lesson focused on shape recognition as a Santa collage, and your pre-kindergartener won't even realize she's learning!

When your child is itching for a game, consider ditching Hide and Seek in favor of Shape and Seek. Here's how it works:

This hands-on activity that involves arranging pieces of yarn will teach your pre-K child the concept of ordering items by length in an interesting way.

Have fun with the kids by "shaping up" your standard chocolate chip cookie recipe, and teach kids about sorting and shapes while you're at it.

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 engaging, fun, pattern resist painting is inspired by your little one's love of shapes.

Build your child's vocabulary by exploring and discussing spatial relationships during everyday activities such as building, rearranging, and ordering.

Your preschooler or kindergartener will count their way to Valentine's Day while designing an imaginative and artistic set of counting cards!

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

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

If your preschooler needs counting practice, try this pared-down game. Kids count clips in each cup and find the playing card to match.

Sponges are easy to handle and fun to play with, and your child will love putting these simple, three-piece puzzles together.

Strengthen your child's number recognition skills with this fun game using an old, empty egg carton!

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

Forget the measuring stick! This fun math activity uses a body part, your child's hand, as a ruler.

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

This copying game is like a hopped up version of Simon Says, but it lets kids use their bodies to practice patterning, a key skill in early math.

In this activity, you child will learn about how heat changes food. On the next sunny day, head outdoors to make a treat in an outside oven! Here's how:

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

A plastic tray is the perfect tool to teach your little one how to count. Try out this activity, and your child will have her numbers down in no time.

This fun math game will help develop your child's counting skills and number recognition skills.

Dig up some dinos while promoting curiosity and sensory skills in this hands-on activity that will have your child searching for prehistoric treasure!

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

This fun shape game is like Twister...with a twist!