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.

1. Sing songs that involve numbers
2. Ask your child for help with measuring ingredients while cooking
3. While playing, ask your child to arrange their stuffed animals by size
4. Measure soil for seeds while gardening
5. Create play money for your child in simple denominations and use them while playing
6. Sort and group objects in a sensory bin
7. Offer different sizes of measuring cups in a sensory bin for your child to experiment with
8. Sort beads on labeled pipe cleaners
9. Play I Spy when running errands, focusing on simple two-dimensional shapes
10. Have a simple shape-focused scavenger hunt
11. Arrange colored blocks by shape
12. Arrange colored blocks in repeatable patterns
13. Sing clapping songs such as Patty Cake
14. Sort differently-colored cars with the help of sidewalk chalk
15. Ask your child to help you sort differently-sized plates and cups while putting away the dishes
16. Draw different numbers and shapes and ask your child to color them in
17. Have your child draw their own numbers and shapes
18. Create a count and sort box game
19. Play a Count and Eat game with small food items
20. 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.