🎓 Skills Your Child Will Develop

• 🔢 Early Numeracy — Hands-on counting, sorting, measuring, and pattern work develops the number sense and mathematical reasoning that formal arithmetic will later build on — and preschool numeracy is one of the strongest predictors of later math achievement.
• ✏️ Pre-Writing Development — Drawing, tracing, and early mark-making develop the fine motor control and visual-motor integration that handwriting requires — making every drawing activity a contribution to writing readiness.
• 📖 Story Structure Understanding — Understanding that stories have a beginning, problem, solution, and ending develops narrative comprehension — the mental schema children use to make sense of increasingly complex texts throughout their school years.
• 📚 Pre-Reading Skills — Activities that involve letters, sounds, rhymes, and print directly build the phonological awareness and letter knowledge that are the two strongest predictors of successful reading development.

Math and science are important ways that preschoolers can learn about the world around them. As they come to understand basic math and science concepts, they will develop new interests and skills that will help them as they move on to kindergarten and beyond. Math and science activities will also encourage a preschooler to think creatively and look at things a little bit different than they did before. These activities will encourage developmentally appropriate skills in preschoolers and get them excited about new subjects.

Featured Preschool Math and Science Product

Insect Lore Ladybug Land
What better way to prepare for Spring than to raise your own ladybugs for your garden? Insect Lore will send you 15-20 ladybug larvae whenever you are ready for them. Your preschoolers will love watching as the larvae turn into adult ladybugs. They will enjoy watching the new ladybugs explore their new surroundings.  Preschoolers will learn what role ladybugs play in the environment. This activity could be used with a nursery rhyme theme unit. "Ladybird Ladybird fly away home..."

Featured Preschool Math Activities

Preschool Math Activity - How Tall Am I?
Preschoolers love to learn more about themselves and how they grow. This preschool science activity will help preschoolers to learn how tall they are. Preschoolers will practice their measuring skills and will learn what things they are bigger than and what things they are smaller than.

Preschool Math Activity - Egg Carton Counting
This hands on preschool math activity is simple to make using recycled egg cartons. Preschoolers will practice their small motor skills, number recognition skills, and counting skills as they play this counting game.

Animal Mama Preschool Matching Game

Egg Carton Color Matching

Mitten Matching Math

Featured Preschool Science Activities

Preschool Sensory Activity - Insta Snow
Shake things up a bit by providing preschoolers with a sensory experience that goes beyond the traditional materials like play dough and sand. Celebrate winter by letting preschoolers play with Insta-Snow. This powder will mesmerize preschoolers as they watch it turn to snow right before your eyes just by adding a little bit of water.

Preschool Science Activity - Melting Snow
Science is exciting for preschooler when they can see it in action. Preschoolers can learn about the properties of water by experimenting with some winter snow. This simple experiment will allow preschoolers to see water transform before their eyes into ice, water, and vapor.

3 Step Ziplock Ice-Cream for Preschoolers
Ziplock Ice-Cream is a wonderful way to get preschoolers interested in cooking. Many preschoolers do not know what ingredients make up their favorite foods or how they are made. This simple food activity takes preschoolers through the process of making ice cream from beginning to end.

Preschool Science Activity - Why Do Leaves Change Colors?
To preschoolers, the changing colors of fall leaves may seem like something close to magic. This simple science lesson will help preschoolers to understand the process that leaves go through in the fall when they begin to change colors and what plants need to live and grow.

Preschool Science Activity - Fingerprint Exploring
Preschoolers love to be special. This preschool science activity will help preschoolers to understand that no two people are exactly the same. Preschoolers will learn that even their fingerprints are uniquely their own.

Preschool Science Activity - My Five Senses Chart

Preschool Dental Lesson - Importance of Brushing Teeth

Recycling Sorting

Preschool Flower Pots

Preschool Sensory Activities

Preschool Sensory Activity - Create a Feel Box

Preschoolers love to experience their world through touch. Using a feel box can help preschoolers to practice identifying objects only using one of their five senses. This fun preschool guessing game is a wonderful addition to a circle time routine or it can be used as a calming activity for active preschoolers.

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Preschool Science Experiments - Age Coins with your Preschooler
Have you or your preschooler ever wondered why coins change color over time? With this fun and easy preschool science experiment, you and your preschooler can actually speed up that process. Using this preschool science experiment, you can create 'pirate booty' for your pirate-loving preschooler.

Preschool Experiments - Combining Colors with your Preschooler
There's a great way do teach your preschooler the colors; let them combine colors to make new colors. With this fun preschool experiment, your preschooler can get a hands-on science activity to learn all about combining colors.

Helpful Tips for Parents - Use mathematical language all day: "more than," "less than," "half," "equal," "twice as much." Incidental math vocabulary builds the conceptual foundation formal math builds on. - Expose children to multiple languages early if possible. The preschool window is the most efficient period for language acquisition the brain will ever have. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What learning differences might first become apparent in the preschool years? The preschool years are when speech and language delays, developmental delays, autism spectrum characteristics, sensory processing differences, and early signs of ADHD typically become apparent. Early identification and early intervention are the most powerful factors in outcomes for children with learning differences — the preschool brain's plasticity makes early intervention far more effective than the same intervention at age 8. If you have concerns about your child's development, discuss them with your pediatrician rather than waiting to see if the child grows out of it. Related reading: See also our kindergarten readiness guide and our vocabulary building guide for more ideas on this topic.