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Math learning made simple at home with your Preschooler

Math learning made simple at home with your Preschooler

Math learning you say…yuck!  That’s right math learning at home.  There are so many fun activities you and your child can do together learning about math   while being at home.
Geometry.  These fun activities involve critical thinking skills and brain activity. Your child will learn about patterns and shapes.  Recognizing shapes are critical to making a pattern.  Shapes are a circle, rectangle, triangle, square, etc.  You can make a shape collage using colored construction paper.  A memory game by placing 3 different shapes on a mat, cover them taking one shape away.  Remove the covering and ask your child what looks different and which shape is missing.  Another cute idea is making a shape book.  Using about 4-6 pieces of paper stapled, draw or cut pictures out of a magazine identifying a shape!


Color Sorting, Recognition and Counting.  With using a bag of Skittles, Jelly Belly’s or colored cereals, you can do all kinds of neat math activities.  The Skittles Rainbow Craft uses color sorting and counting.  Sort the Skittles by color and set aside in bowls.  Next get a piece of paper and start drawing 3-4 arched lines making the shape of a rainbow.  Next place 1 of the same color of Skittles along the arch line and repeat with a different color on the next arched line.  Have them count out loud how many it took to fill each arch.  Then finally I put a few marshmallows at the end of the rainbow to complete.  I did this craft with one of my grandchildren when he was younger and of course he was more interested in seeing how fast he could eat them before we could actually finish! 





Credits:  Pinterest and https://www.prekinders.com/pre-k-shapes/ https://planningplaytime.com/skittles-rainbow-craft-color-sorting-activity

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