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!

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.

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

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

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.

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!

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

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

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.

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

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

Learning to count change can be tough! Help your child become a master money-counter with this simple game.

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!

This measurement activity uses feet to compare objects, but not the ones found on rulers and measuring sticks...the feet on your child's own body!

In this insulation experiment, you'll learn which clothes keep you warm in the cold, and which make you shiver.

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

Have your child construct his own Christmas tree from construction paper while cutting, overlapping and measuring to create an adorable modern design.

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

This game is the perfect way to prepare your child for any shopping adventures you may embark upon, all while practicing important math concepts.

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.

When you rub a balloon on your head, your hair stands up; but is that true for everyone? Does hair color affect static electricity?

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?

This simple heat transfer experiment is a great introduction to the concepts of heat transfer and conduction.

Transform your kitchen table into a winter wonderland with a cookie and cocoa party that looks freshly dusted with snow.

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

Countries all around the world have been using the abacus for thousands of years to make math easier. Have your kid make his own abacus to practice arithmetic.

Here's a thought-provoking activity to make new vocabulary words "stick" in the mind of your young learner.

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

Thanksgiving placemats are a great craft for your kid, and a beautiful addition to the dinner table. Make Thanksgiving placemats with your kid for the holiday.