1st and 2nd Grade Math Activities

Use a deck of playing cards to practice place value and other math concepts with your upper elementary child!

This activity is based on the popular card game, Slapjack. It's rip-roaring fun, and it reinforces the concepts of odd and even.

Learn how to make a paper snowflake with these simple instructions. Help your child learn how to make a paper snowflake with only paper and scissors.

Prepare for some scary Halloween counting practice! This game encourages players to knock down cylinders and then add to determine their scores.

Take the spookiness out of spiders with this web-making activity! Your child will practice talking about and creating shapes in this Halloween craft, and learn about spiders along the way.

Celebrate 100 fantastic days of school by creating a school-themed collage with 100 pieces in this unique arts and crafts activity.

Why doesn't the ocean freeze? Students answer this question by simulating the chemical composition and temperature of arctic waters in their own home.

Help your child learn science and math skills like sorting, sequencing, and ordering while taking a nature walk and collecting and collaging leaves.

This project determines whether Styrofoam, paper, or plastic cups are best for preventing ice from melting.

This activity will put those Halloween treats to good use by using candy corn to help your child with her subtraction skills.

Get estimating with this spooky activity that asks your young mathematician to rely on their problem-solving skills to figure out how many items they believe are in spooky Halloween jars!

Turn learning fractions into a pizza party in this fun second grade math game.

Kids will learn how to make a thermometer to to explore liquid density in this great science fair project. Which liquids are affected by temperature the most?

Trying to find sums of groups of multiples is a great way to practice your addition. Be sure to double check your work. If you clear all of the cards, you win!

Help your child get comfortable with the concept of estimation, which will come in handy during everything from standardized tests to future shopping trips!

For most second graders, a good secret code is just about irresistible. Here's one that builds math facts while you're at it!

Help your preschooler chart her good eating habits with this arts and crafts activity that has her making a healthy fruits and vegetables rainbow and graph!

Here's a fun math and science activity: help your child explore four different kinds of measurement, using their hand and a few simple household tools.

Blend science and math to explore a very important first grade social studies question: does our planet contain more land or more water?

Help your child improve his coin counting skills in these two math games that have him race to reach $1.00.

Learn about coins and their value by making an animal piggy bank. Here's how to make a lion, pig, or sheep bank!

Playing a tactile game with multiplication will help your child get a better grasp of basic math concepts and transform your kid into a master multiplier.

In this hands-on craft project, kids will make an analog clock of their own, and then use it to learn how to tell time.

Learn how starch and carbohydrates interact with different solvents in this fun and easy packing peanut science fair project.

Create equations in this strategic math card game. Your second or third grader can practice addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division in a new way!

Here's a hands-on activity that first grade use to help kids get a feel for equations. It uses popsicle sticks to practice addition and subtraction!

This heart paper chain is the perfect way to celebrate Valentine's Day. Include some decorations in a simple AB pattern and work on pattern recognition.

Encourage your kindergartener to investigate and chronicle the weather she observes during the coldest months of the year.

This caterpillar math game gets your child to work on addition and subtraction. Challenge your child's math prowess with this fast-paced caterpillar math game.

This experiment works due to a simple principle: plants need light. Build a shoebox maze and watch the plant work though the obstacle course, searching for sun.