Early Childhood Arts & Crafts Math Activities

Help your kindergartener review shapes - and build early reading skills - with this creative book project.

You kid can count from one to ten, no problem. They can even do it backward. Work on their addition and subtraction skills with this fun fruit picking activity.

Combine an introduction to shape and counting with a springtime art project by showing your kindergartener how to create a vibrant rainbow mosaic.

Your child will enjoy getting math practice as they use bugs in addition and subtraction problems.

This activity spotlights everyone's favorite reindeer, Rudolph, and preserves your child's handprints in his "antlers".

Building a rocket ship is a great way for kids to learn about measuring and construction. It'll fuel their creative side too!

This imaginative art activity will help your child to better understand symmetry and explore color and shape.

Play with shapes, like triangles and circles, to help your child review the different kinds and create a new picture!

Any decent Halloween celebration isn't complete without a cat. Even though this cat has an arched back to look as if it's hissing, it's still cute!

This spider hat activity challenges your child to learn about spiders and improve fine motor skills. Make a spider hat with your child on Halloween or any time.

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!

Shamrock Stamps are a great way to celebrate St. Patrick's Day. Simple and symmetrical, this symbol of Irish culture is the perfect shape for prints.

Make a bear cave for your child to play and explore, learning about bears and winter hibernation.

This Halloween, encourage your child to create a super sweet mosaic. They'll make a candy corn pumpkin and then decide if they want to eat it, or keep it!

Try this fun and interactive collage activity with your preschooler to teach her the "building blocks" of math and architecture.

Halloween is approaching, so why not create some ghost flash cards that will help your child learn their numbers the spooky way?

Help your little builder move up in the world with this recycled cardboard castle that's just the right size for a young king and his loyal stuffed subjects.

Candy cane ornaments bring some cheer to your Christmas tree. Make a batch of candy cane ornaments with your child to practice patterning and fine motor skills.

Using nothing fancier than old milk cartons and popsicle sticks, create a village full of fun learning for your kindergarten math student.

Teach your preschooler color recognition using this handy egg carton sorter. She will group objects by color and learn to recognize their names with this tool.

Cornucopia still life painting is a great activity for your young artist to look at light and shadow, textures and composition in creating art at Thanksgiving!

Help your kids fall in love with nature by making a simple clay bird bath. Set it up in your yard and watch the animals venture in for a sip of water.

Celebrate the 100th day of school by creating a geometric, math-inspired mural in the style of Henri Matisse in this creative kindergarten grade art activity.

Create a counting book, in order from 1-30, to help your child figure out a variety of ways of recognizing and representing numbers.

Whether the snow is fluffy and soft or icy and hard, a snowman is sure to inspire a smile. No wonder this snowman is so happy—it's made using marshmallows!

Make caterpillars out of papier-mache and let the kids explore their inner creepy crawler.

Disguise a lesson focused on shape recognition as a Santa collage, and your pre-kindergartener won't even realize she's learning!

Does the idea of taking your child to an art museum sound daunting? Create your own museum and give your child some practice with shapes!

This engaging, fun, pattern resist painting is inspired by your little one's love of shapes.

Create clear sound shakers so your preschooler can observe and compare the different sounds that objects make!