Spring ideas

Spring alphabet cards (for memory/matching games). You can also ask the child to pick a magnetic letter and find the matching spring card or match lower case/upper case letter cards.

 Spring lacing. Print a spring picture, color it and poke holes for lacing.

 Roll and cover the sum (for older children) or roll and cover the number (for younger kids).

 Count and line the correct amount of spring foam stickers.

More spring number and letter cards.

 Recognize and cover the correct lower case letter.

 Tracing.

 Find the match.

 Spring memory cards.

Roll the die and place the right amount of foam stickers in the basket.

Buttons Math practice

Template from: childcareland.com
 If your child can sum, ask him/her to use two dice and work out the sum then place the corresponding amount of buttons on the snowman. If the child is too young for that, work on number recognition and counting with a numbered die instead.

Winter stamps are always fun!

Roll a snowman

The template is from childcareland.com

The child rolls two dice and sums them up, then covers the corresponding number on the snowman.

Pom pom muffins

Foam mittens

I cut out some foam mittens. My children hung them on the stairs.
Foam mittens can also be decorated. Ask the child to roll a die and decorate the mittens with the corresponding amount of, say, beads, plastic snowflakes, or anything else you might have at home.

Christmas counting activity

I found these funny rubber snowmen/gifts/snowflakes/... at Target and I used them for a counting activity for the kids.
I made a paper Christmas tree and snowman and asked the kids to decorate them by rolling a die and placing the corresponding amount of rubber decorations on them.

Snowman activity

A fun counting activity that's perfect for Winter! It seems to be popular on the Web and my children liked it too. We used numbers but beads are also good.

Number board and how to use it

This easy to make number board can be used in so many different ways!
I made Halloween cards, each with a different amount of Halloween stickers on them and asked my children to match the card with the corresponding number on the board.
I also wrote the same numbers on another set of cards and asked my children to match them on the number board.
You can also have the child close their eyes and touch a number on the board. Let's say he/she picks 8. Then you ask the child to do something 8 times, like clap their hands or run on the spot or hop.

Playdoh fun (Math activity)

Roll the die and use the corresponding number of beads on your playdoh ball to decorate a playdoh cookie or snowman or anything his/her imagination can lead to.
We used our home made playdoh.

Halloween craft and Math

Paper Mummy

Decorate your pumpkin

Count the ghosts

Home made count and color book

DIY ABC Dice and more

Homemade dice are so much fun and versatile!

Great for toddlers:roll the colors or shapes die and find the matching color/shape.
Great tool for reinforcing letter recognition: roll the upper case ABC die and ask the child to find the corresponding lower case letter.
Great as writing practice: roll any of the home made dice you have and ask the child to write down what comes up and see who comes out more often. Who will win first prize?
Also great for coins recognition and sorting.
Also good for numbers: roll the numbers die and ask the child to pick the corresponding amount of figurines, pawns, or any other item and write down the number.

Math with buttons

Ladybug

Very easy to make! My kids loved it!
Draw a ladybug on a piece of red cardboard, then draw the spots and the central "triangle" on black paper (cardboard or not) and cut them out (or ask your child to draw them and/or cut them out him/herself). We used white fluid glue that we applied with a brush but I think glue stick would work just as well. Draw the smile and add the eyes and... you're done!
You can then use this as a counting activity as well: ask your child to count the black spots, or make it into an addition and/or subtraction activity.
Many more ideas and suggestions here:

Letter L is for Ladybug - Confessions of a Homeschooler

10+1=11, 10+2=12

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Running with numbers

This game can be played both outdoors and indoors.

Write numbers 0 to 20 or 0 to 10 or just decimals (depending on your children and your teaching goal) on paper. Your child can either write the numbers, if he/she can already do that, or just trace them if you write them with dots, or simply help you decorate them, paint them, color them, and so on.
Ask your child to help you spread them around the garden, making sure they are not lying flat on the floor, but can actually easily be seen from a distance. Ask the child to say the numbers out loud as they choose where to put them.

Then, you can start calling one number at a time. The child needs to run fast towards that number and pick it up and put it in a bag. You can choose to call the numbers in numerical order and/or mix them up.

Great fun, good exercise and great for remembering numerical order and counting.

Indoor version: you can write the numbers on smaller pieces of paper, scatter them on the table and call the numbers. The child needs to help figurines, or little toys or even stuffies find the right number.