Fun Math Activities for Preschoolers
Topics: Child Development
Age Range: Preschool
Children are introduced to the fundamentals of math from an early age. Pattern recognition, pattern creation, shapes, and sizes are all concepts that form the building blocks of math. Try these fun math activities with your preschooler to help them build on these concepts.
- Sing songs that involve numbers
- Ask your child for help with measuring ingredients while cooking
- While playing, ask your child to arrange their stuffed animals by size
- Measure soil for seeds while gardening
- Create play money for your child in simple denominations and use them while playing
- Sort and group objects in a sensory bin
- Offer different sizes of measuring cups in a sensory bin for your child to experiment with
- Sort beads on labeled pipe cleaners
- Play I Spy when running errands, focusing on simple two-dimensional shapes
- Have a simple shape-focused scavenger hunt
- Arrange colored blocks by shape
- Arrange colored blocks in repeatable patterns
- Sing clapping songs such as Patty Cake
- Sort differently-colored cars with the help of sidewalk chalk
- Ask your child to help you sort differently-sized plates and cups while putting away the dishes
- Draw different numbers and shapes and ask your child to color them in
- Have your child draw their own numbers and shapes
- Create a count and sort box game
- Play a Count and Eat game with small food items
- Create a numbers-focused bean bag toss game at home
Opportunities for your preschooler to learn math skills are all around them. These twenty math activities will help your child have fun while learning.