Maths activities

Activity 1- number hunt
Hide numbers from 1-10, 1-20, 1-30 (you will know what your own child is able for) around the house, in a bowl of gloop, jelly, flour. Can you order the numbers from smallest to largest.

Activity 2- repeating patterns
Use any toy (construction materials/animals/loose parts) and create a repeating pattern. Remember a repeating pattern can be colours, shapes, size, sounds anything
Example:
red, yellow, blue, red, yellow ...
Large, medium, small, large...
1,7,4,1,7,4,1,7....
Clap, stomp, click, clap, stomp...

Activity 3-Write a number sequences to 20 leaving some blanks in between. Write the missing numbers on pegs and get your child to fill the gaps. You can extend this with number sentences.
4 + 6 =. 10- =5. 8+ =12

Activity 4- Prepare some sticky notes with various number sentences. Example; 4+4=8
Role 2 dice and find the matching number sentences (So when you roll 2 4s you would collect) See who can smack the sticky note first and collect it. The person with the most sticky notes at the end wins.

Activity 5- create dot to dot random numbers, decorated with the same amount of dots as that number, for example 5 would need 5 dots. Your child can then join each dot up to write the number. Give your child bingo dabbers to highlight how many dots created each number.

Activity 6- draw a number line to 20. Shout a number out and see if your child can say the number that is one more or one less than the given number.

Activity 7- cut out some hearts/eggs/butterfly shapes and then cut each in half using different zigzags, squiggles and so on. Then write a number on one side and draw the corresponding number on the other. Can they complete the puzzle? Extend with number sentences.

Activity 8- 3D shape hunt, call out a 3D shape
Sphere, cylinder, cone, cube, cuboid, pyramid and see if your child can find an object in the house with that shape before you can.
Extend by describing the shape. I’m looking for a 3D shape with no verticies (corners), 3 faces and 2 edges

Activity 9- garden/outside hopscotch
Draw numbers to 20 with chalk and get your child to could forwards and backwards as they jump.

Activity 10-measure the length and height of different objects. How many blocks tall do you think this dinosaur is? Do you think it will have more or fewer than this troll doll?
Longer/taller/shorter

Activity 11- use your dinners to experiment with doubles and halves of amounts and show what that looks like. Use paper plates to create pizzas of symmetry.

Activity 12- talk to your children about what day of the week it is, what is today’s date what was the date yesterday, what month is it what is the weather like for the season.

Activity 13-play snakes and ladders

Activity 14- create a snack list with prices and coins out of paper or time foil and give them a value. Every time your child wants a snack they have to use their coins to work out how much money they will need.

Activity 15- cut out some different 2d shapes, what can you make out of the shapes? Rockets, cars, monsters, castles. Describe the shapes you are using and what they represent.

Activity 16- play maths bingo as a family, create cards with numbers to 20/ shapes/ answers to number sentences and be a bingo caller

Activity 17- sorting, place a variety of objects in a bowl and see how many different ways you can sort them for example by colour, by size, by object

Activity 19- use number playing cards to make number sentences, play snap, match objects too, sequence in order and backwards.

Activity 20- write a routine with your child so they are hearing different times
At breakfast time 8:30 we will...
Then at 9:00 we will...
At lunchtime 11:30 we will..
Get them to decorate with pictures and colour it in.