Family Math Activities

A child's hands holds a bird feeder made with a pipecleaner, cereal and blueberries.

In this hands-on math activity, you and your child will create a bird feeder using fruit and cerealthat will make the birds in your neighborhood sing with joy!

colorful flowers made of tissue paper and pipe cleaners in a blue vase filled with beans

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Make a Kid-Friendly Bouquet of Pretty Paper Flowers

Try this simple flower craft to practice measuring length with your little one.

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Make a Groovy Lava Lamp Craft

In this fun STEM experiment, your child will explore measurement and capacity while creating colorful lava lamps with just a few easy-to-find materials.

a pizza craft made of a paper plate made to look like a pizza using markers and construction paper shapes

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Kids Counting Pizza Craft Activity

Learning to count is an essential skill children need to develop to succeed in math. Create a paper plate pizza with your child to practice counting to 20.

crafts made out of paper plates made to look like octopuses decorated with colorful construction paper strips as tentacles

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Colorful Counting Octopus Craft

In this fun art activity, you and your child will make a colorful paper plate octopus to practice counting.

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Play With This Pattern Parrot Craft

In this fun craft activity, your child will create original patterns to make a colorful parrot.

colorful snake crafts made of buttons on a table surrounded by craft supplies

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Craft a Slithering Math Snake With Buttons

Practice sorting and pattern-making with this fun button snake craft.

a child draws a self portrait of themselves using crayons.

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Support Body Positivity with a Self-Portrait Inspired by Frida Kahlo

Help kids build self-esteem with this art activity where they can learn to appreciate the uniqueness and beauty of their faces by drawing them, just like Frida Kahlo did.

Little girl whistling while playing around with her kite

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Family Math Activity: Let's Go Fly a Kite!

Making a kite is a fun way to practice math and play outside. Create this simple kite in 10 minutes or less using a few easy-to-find household materials for hours of outdoor fun.

A small child paints an abstract pattern on a rock.

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How to Make a Community Friendship Rock Garden

Plant the seeds of civic and community engagement in your kids by making a community rock garden with hand-painted rocks and by reading together.

Closeup of a small child's hands as they shape craft pipe cleaners into different shapes like triangles and circles.

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Do the Twist: 5 Fun and Easy Kids Math Activities With Craft Pipe Cleaners

These math activities that only require craft pipe cleaners and imagination will have kids doing plenty of twisting (and hopefully not a lot of shouting).

a Tarahumara doll and a small toy car hang in a balance scale made out of a hanger and berry containers

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Family Math Activity: Make a Balance Scale

Make a balance scale with your kid so they can compare the weight of different objects like small toys and play at guessing which objects weigh more than others.

A child holds a small plant in their hands

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12 Easy Earth Day Activities to Do With Your Kids

Plant the seed for your kids to incorporate eco-friendly practices — while supporting social-emotional and math learning — all year with these kids books, crafts and videos featuring PBS KIDS characters.

An adult holds tape while a child cuts it to seal their homemade maracas on a table full of art supplies.

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Make Music with Homemade Maracas

Learn how to make simple maracas with empty toilet paper rolls while practicing early math with your kid. Plus, get ideas of other instruments to make together.

family math postage stamp activity drawing the stamp design

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Family Math Activity: Design Your Own Postage Stamps

Make your own stamps with your child while helping them practice early math skills like shape recognition, location and position words and patterns. Now that gets a stamp of approval!

family math activity spring cleaning chore wheel

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How to Make Spring-Cleaning into a Math Game for Preschoolers

Have preschoolers help with spring-cleaning at home by making a chore chart that can help them practice early math skills like sorting and counting, plus make cleaning fun.

Crown made using leaves, moss, and cardboard

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Make a Nature Crown Craft to Welcome Spring

Enjoy spring and help kids use their senses to observe the natural world with this nature crown craft that incorporates sorting, patterns, counting and measurement!

family math activity tissue box guitar craft. a guitar made out of an empty tissue box and paper towel roll

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Family Math Activity: Rock Out with a Tissue Box Guitar

Make this easy guitar craft to nurture your kid's interest in music, practice early math skills like patterns and spatial sense, and support social-emotional development.

kids robot crafts made from boxes and aluminum foil with different faces and expressions

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Craft Shiny Robots and Spaceships

Go on a sci-fi adventure with your kid with this robot craft that emphasizes spatial relationships!

little girl is doing pattern rocks family math activity at home

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Relax with Pattern Rocks

Calm down with your child while you practice making colorful, decorative patterns on rocks.

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Family Math Activity: How Far Can You Toss a Squishy Sponge Bomb?

In this outdoor activity, you will help your child compare and measure with a fun game for the whole family.

family math activity pattern flags made of construction paper

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Family Math Activity: Craft Your Own Colorful Flags

In this craft, your child will have some fun with flags while identifying repeating patterns.

Shot of a mother and her adorable baby boy doing the laundry at home

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10 Easy Ways to Add Math Twists to Everyday Family Activities

Do you know what laundry races, mealtimes and cleanup all have in common besides being tasks we all have to do? They’re amazing for practicing math at home with your little ones and can be super fun! How? To keep things easy, just a few clever twists here and there will do the trick.

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Easy Tips and Tricks to Add a Little Math to Six Nostalgic Kids Games

It’s time to get nostalgic! Retro games like Simon says, hopscotch, musical chairs and more are back, just with a few math makeovers to sneak some math learning into playtime.

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