Math Activities

Fun, hands-on math activities for your preschool-age kids from the Early Learning Ideas website and the store.

Number Activities

Add these free printable 1-12 number cards, counters, & dice to an empty mint tin or soap container to create fun math activities for your classroom. Perfect for preschool or pre-k, you can use the printables with your kids for a variety of math learning & counting activities. Ideas for learning games and activities are included. Use for your math centers and stations, as a take-home activity, as a screen-free activity at restaurants, or as a student gift. #preschoolmath #counting

Counting Around the House

Looking for ideas for preschool activities at home? Counting activities can be fun, easy, and cheap. Use these free printables to send your kids on a mission to count things in your home. They will have a blast as they practice counting. Kids will have so much fun the won't even realize that they are learning .... and that makes teacher math easy for you! Click to get your free printable today.

Comparing Weight Activities

Use this fun activity featuring measurement for kids in your math or STEM learning center. Kids weigh containers of everyday objects in a bucket balance scale. Your children will have fun while learning the concepts of heavy and light and also learn to sort the objects by weight. Perfect for your preschool, pre-k and kindergarten classroom. This hands-on learning center can be used for any theme or lesson plans....just use thematic materials in the containers...ideas are included. #preschool

Number Activity Mats

Count & Create Maker Mats

Here is a easy preschool counting and creating activity to make math fun. Use simple, on hand materials, along with the free printable for this fun preschool STEAM math and design activity. Add play dough for 3-D designs. Perfect for your hands on math centers in preschool, pre-k classroom. Ideas to make a number books or to use as a fine motor activity are included. Preschool math, preschool STEM, preschool STEAM. Get out the pom-poms and pipe cleaners for hands-on early childhood learning.

Graphing by Color

Use these free printables in your math centers in your preschool, pre-k and kindergarten classroom. Kids will love this bear color graph set to work on early math skills. Several math games and activity ideas are included. Kids will have fun will learning colors identification, color sorting, counting, and number comparison. Perfect for your bear or hibernation themed unit or lessons plans, but can be adapted for any theme or used with different types of counters. #preschool #preschoolmath

Shape Cards

Playdough Number Mats

These 1-20 number playdough mats are a great multi-sensory way to teach early math skills to kids in preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten. While they are perfect for play dough, you can use them with pom-poms, small erasers or any type of loose parts. Teach math and work on fine motor skills at the same time....plus it's fun for kids. The mats come in a variety of styles...with or without ten frames. Coordinate them with your current theme or season. #preschool #preschoolmath #playdough

One-to-one Correspondence

Monster Math $Kids love these fun hands-on monster math activities. Teach color matching, counting, comparing quantities and so much more with these Halloween printables. Perfect for October or any time of year....for a monster theme or with monster feelings. Use as independent or small group activities and games in your #preschool and #prek math centers or math stations. Teach numbers, counting, and numeral recognition, and number skills with this cute set. #monstertheme #halloweenmath #preschoolmath$

Firetruck Number Puzzles

Measurement Activities

Apple Math Activities $Check out all the ways you can use these apple free printables for apple math activities with your kids in preschool, pre-k and kindergarten. Perfect for your apples theme, Johnny Appleseed study, BTS theme or harvest theme units and lesson plans. Kids will love the hands-on learning ideas to learn numbers, counting, comparing numbers, etc. Perfect for your early childhood math centers, here are even math game ideas. #appletheme #preschoolmath #preschool$

Snowflake Counting Circles $Looking for winter math activities for your kids? Try these snowflake number circles. Use the free math printables in muffin tins or use them to make counting containers. Many ideas are included for counting, number sense, and even basic addition. Perfect for your winter math centers or math work stations in preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten. A great addition to your snow theme, snowman theme, winter theme unit and lesson plans. #preschool #winteractivitiesforkids #preschoolmath$

Ten Frame Math Game for Preschoolers $Math games for preschoolers are a great way to help with teaching numbers to early addition. Here is a simple ten frame game (with free printables) that kids love to play. The early childhood math games are perfect for your math center in preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten. Customize the game for any season spring, summer, fall or winter. The game pictured is frog themed, but it can be customized for any theme unit or lessons plans in your classroom (like an animal theme). #preschoolmath$

Math Activities in the Store

maker mat counting and creating activities for preschool and pre-k