Fun Preschool Math Activities

Number Games For Preschoolers

Preschool math activities are a gift to all parents because you can use the time to build on your child's love of numbers and create a life-long love of math.

The biggest block to learning maths is to make it abstract.

Your child needs to see how maths works in real life. Once it becomes a subject for workbooks and pens you could find your child just can't see the point.

But when your child is very young, you've got the chance to really get going with lots of homeschool fun math activities to show how numbers are as much a part of real life as walking.

I loved doing math activities when I was homeschooling William and Catherine - because it was so much fun for all of us!

With a bit of invention, you can turn all your child's favorite activities into maths!

Fun Math Activities for Preschoolers

Here are a few homeschooling ideas to get you started. You'll need to choose the math activity that fits best with your child's interests, or adapt the homeschool activities here to their favourite subject.

Games

Games are the parent's secret weapon when it comes to finding homeschooling math activities for preschoolers. There simply isn't anything to beat the sneaky way you can use them to build a rock solid foundation of basic number skills - all at the same time as having fun with your child.

Here are some of our homeschooling favorites:

• Kim's Game. This has to a must-do maths activity for homeschooling preschoolers. Get a tray and put ten of your child's favourite objects on it. Get your child to count them. Cover with a cloth. Take one away. See how many are left.

You can adapt this preschool math activity to your child's ability. Try adding animals under the cloth and see what happens!


Preschool Maths Activity


• I Spy. The classic homeschool activity. Perfect for preschoolers in the car or the house. How many pictures / flowers / birds can you see?
• Big mechanical machines are often a gift activity to the secret preschool maths homeschooling parent like me who has a son like William. Can you see how many wheels / wind wipers / doors that tractor has?
• Fun music activity for homeschooling preschoolers. Get your child to hop, skip, or jump to the music and count as they go.

More Preschool Math Activity ideas

• Food. The way to any preschool child's heart. Use colored sweets to count numbers or slip in a bit of homeschool division by getting your child to share their raisins.
• A favorite preschool math activity in our homeschool: "If Catherine was 5, how old would I be?" If you have a child with lots of siblings this game would be even more fun!


Fraction Activities


• Use any real life opportunity you have to add in a homeschool math activity. How many dogs can you see in a walk in the park? Birthday cake candles make highly popular homeschooling objects - no preschoolers can resist counting them!

First Grade Math Activities

Kindergarten Math Activities

Measurement

• Homeschool Dinosaur Activity for Preschoolers. See how big a dinosaur really is. Get a meter rule, pick your child's favorite dinosaur, find out how long he is and stake him out in the garden. At 27m the Barasaurus we measured ended up in the nettles behind the Silver Birch tree. We worked out T-Rex's head would have appeared through our second-floor homeschool window. Fantastic!
• You could come and dig up a dinosaur in our fun homeschooling Preschool Science Activities.


Preschool Science Activities


• Homeschool Cookery for Preschoolers. Get your child to weigh out the ingredients for a cake mix. William's first was a homeschool Welcome Home Dad cake.
• Fun homeschooling food dye activity. Add colored food dyes to water and get your child to tip the liquid into different size containers. Spills inevitable but all part of the homeschooling fun...


Elementary Math Activities

These fun preschool math activities are just a taster of all the enjoyment you can have learning math with your child. You can find more fun math activities here:

• Preschool maths activity. Make a homeschool butterfly and learn maths at the same time!
• You can play shop and see board, card and dice games in our page on homeschooling kindergarten math activities.


Homeschool Math

The secret to fun preschool math activities is to bring numbers alive by making them part of what you do everyday - that way you can't fail to light up your child's natural ability.

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