Activities don’t have to be boring, make them fun so your child will love math!
- Head out into nature and explore flowers. Count and compare flower petals!
- Go on a hunt for a number and match it to its corresponding dots.
- Build towers of blocks on a number mat, with the correct number of blocks high!
- Spark your child’s interest with their interests! A farming approach of loading grain bins with the corresponding number of pieces of ‘grain’
- Have a newspaper throwing game and count up the newspaper balls, or how many you make, or miss!
- Make something in the kitchen together, or do an experiment and let your child measure out and do the counting.
- Sort through objects by color, and count how many you have of each!
- Fill a dump truck with objects [like dominos!] and count how many you can fit in there! [Inspiration Laboratories]
- Estimate first for some fun and then count items! [Teach Preschool]
- Count with Legos! Make, Do & Friend created a guide to count them on!
- Rolling a die and count corresponding number of Popsicle sticks. [Totally Tots]
- Go on a stroll with their strollers. Give them a number that they have to find that many objects of. Make it a race! [Toddler Approved]
- Connect the dots! A simple past-time activity that reinforces the order of numbers.
- Upcycle a box into a puzzle of numbers!
- Create a maze of numbers to drive through. Can they count their way to the end?
- Stacking up boxes and counting how many high you can go!
- Make a craft together with multiple pieces. Have your child do the counting!
- Count a color of car while on the road, or semis, or vans, whatever suits their interest!
- Create a learning game with your ABC mat and number blocks. Choose a number block and pound the corresponding times with a hammer on the corresponding number mat!
- Let your child run an experiment and measure how much something holds! How many cups fit?
- Make puzzles with a picture. Label sections of the puzzle in numerical order. Cut apart and have your child put it back together again! [Growing in PreK]
- Convert an ABC Puzzle [or any puzzle for that matter] into a number puzzle by flipping it over! [Wild Edisons]
- Measure objects [or yourself!] and count how big they are. [The Imagination Tree]
- Count objects around the house. How many doors do you have? [No Time For Flash Cards]
- Counting with Popsicle sticks and play dough. [Tot School]
- Play any board game, or make your own! Little Family Fun creates a fish race game!
- Count with legos! Label out a paper with numbers and count out the legos next to it. [Crayon Freckles]
- Snack time! Use dice and fruit snacks and play until you eat them all up! [Kids Activities Blog]
- Happy Home Fairy makes a countdown to the first day of school! [Or whatever big event is coming up!]