Inside: Want to improve the balance and the coordination between both sides of the brain? Put aside plastic toys and create a collage with natural materials. Are you tired of plastic, flashy, noisy things that pass for toys these days? Then it’s time to encourage your children to start playing with natural materials like…
Category: Math
Make math fun for your young children with our creative hands-on activities and playful learning ideas. Foster a love of math in your home. #creativemath
Irish Luck - St. Patrick's Day Counting Game
St. Patrick’s Day gives us an excuse for a month-long celebration. We decorate our house in green, design Leprechaun traps, paint rainbows, make green pancakes and host a small St. Patrick’s Day party. And no, we are not Irish. We just use any excuse to make March, typically known in Chicago as Nope-no-Spring-in-sight month, more…
Toilet Paper Roll Bowling, Stacking and Math Practice
Turn your toilet paper rolls into bowling pins with a bit of wrapping paper and glitter. Add numbers 1-10 to your pins and it becomes a fun math practice. Toddlers can practice rolling the ball toward the target and calling out the number of pins they knocked down. Preschoolers can start the game by…
Active Math: Roll, Count, Run and Stick
It’s the middle of winter, the time of the year when we are looking for ways to burn energy without leaving the house. This active math game allows us to be active while learning some math at the same time. I have a long list of active math (and reading) games that help us survive…
Counting Books and Activities
Inside: develop early math skills with fun counting books and hands-on activities. Counting books are so much fun for little kids and when you add related math activities you got yourself the making of a fantastic math curriculum. Not only it’s a fun way to learn, but also this approach allows to develop mathematical understanding…
Decomposition with LEGO - Number 10
Do you want to practice decomposing number 10 with the LEGO characters? Decomposition is a skill that requires practice. In an earlier lesson we decomposed number 5 (click here), today we are moving up to 10. Math for little kids is about laying a strong foundation. They might know what number 10 is, but…
Decomposition with LEGOs
Once your child learns how to count to 10, it’s time for decomposition. Decomposition is a fancy word that means breaking down the numbers into their subparts. Eventually, when kids can count to 100, they will be decomposing numbers into tens and ones. But for now, they only need to understand that numbers can be…
Mathful Parent: fostering child's love of math in creative ways
The old question of “can I teach my kids mathematics?” that haunts many homeschooling moms never bothered me as much as “am I going to hate teaching mathematics?” All through the school years and beyond, I loathed math. Since I was a business major in college I had to take a fair amount of math classes – statistics,…
Ice cream game: Introduction to probability for little kids
Do you want your kids to learn probability while eating ice cream? Then you will love this game! The purpose of the game is to figure out the probability of ice-cream being a flavor picked. This sounds much harder than it is. It’s actually very simple to play and even very young kids can happily play…
