Maths Activities for Kids with Club Hub UK

If you are looking for maths activities for kids, then this is the blog for you. Here at Club Hub we believe the best way to learn maths is through hands-on fun learning which will excite and captivate young children.

Here are a few ideas that you may want to try with your children.

Counting with Nursery Rhymes

So the first one of our maths activities for kids is very simple and requires no equipment just you and your voice. There are so many counting nursery rhymes and they are a great way for younger children to learn how to count forward and backward from 10. Classic nursery rhymes are great for you to sing to your children from a very early age.

Counting rhymes help children develop number sense in a fun way with no pressure. Children learn through repetition, so singing number rhymes throughout the day will help them to become familiar with numbers and the patterns between them. Different number rhymes will help children develop different mathematical skills.

Here are a few examples of counting nursery rhymes you may want to sing with your tot:

• Ten little monkeys
• 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 once I caught a fish a live
• 5 little men in a flying saucer
• 1 man went to mow
• Two fat sausages
• Zoom, zoom, zoom we’re going to the moon
• 5 current buns

Battleships – For Counting to 100

As children become older they need to be able to read and write numbers to 100. Battleships is a great game for developing number sense and practising reading numbers.

You will need a “hundred square” to play and some counters. (There are many free printables online for these).

How to play:

• Both players position themselves so they can’t see each other’s hundred square or number square.
• Each player places counters on the hundred square to represent 3 battleships (3 counters long, 4 counters long and 5 counters long).
• Players take it in turns to call out a number.
• If they hit a battleship, they take the counter. I
• f they miss, the other player marks an x on that number on the hundred square.
• The winner is the first player to ‘sink’ all 3 battleships.

Number Bond Game

Number bonds are hugely important and are the building blocks for much more harder. It is really important that children learn number bonds as they progress through KS1.

This is a very simple KS1 maths game to help children practise their number bonds to 10 and number bonds to 20

To play you will need to play: 1 or more players and a pack of cards with the picture cards removed. Ace is worth 1.

• Shuffle the cards and lay out face up into 4 rows of 5 cards.
• The aim of the game is to remove all the cards from the table in sets of 2 or more cards which add up to 10. E.g. an 8 and a 2 could be removed and a 3, 5 and 2 could also be removed.
• The game can be played individually, with players trying to clear as much of the table as they can.
• If played with other players, take it in turns to remove cards. The winner is the person to have removed the most cards by the end of the game.
• The game can also be played using number bonds to 20, by finding cards which add up to 20.

Making Shapes with Nature

Children learn so much when they are outside and being active. A great way to teach shape is to get children to go outside and find natural objects and sort them out in to different shapes. For example a stone may be a circle, maybe make a mandala out of lots of flowers, moss and bark. You could make 4 sticks in to a square or a rectangle. 3 sticks you could arrange into the shape of a triangle. You can make shapes more complex the older the child is. For example could they make a hexagon? Could they make a Dodecahedron?

If your child loves being outside in nature then we do have lots of classes and clubs such as forest schools, nature activity clubs, and outdoor learning centres. Take a look on the Club Hub directory to find something that may be of interest to you.

Shape Hunt – Maths Activities for Kids

Put out some different coloured hoops and see if your child can find some 2D or 3D shapes lying about. Balls for spheres, boxes for cuboids etc.

Make a 3D Junk Model – Maths Activities for Kids

One of our more creative maths activities for kids includes making a junk model from 3D objects. You can get as creative as you want, or make it a little simpler if your child is younger or you haven’t got as much time. If your child enjoys arts and crafts then do check out the club hub directory for arts and crafts classes near you. 

Sandy Maths – Maths Activities for Kids

If you’re on a day trip to the beach you may want to make it educational. Why not try and draw numbers together in the sand. Count or add up objects you find. Or for the older children draw some circles in the sand and then find shells or stones and explain the concept of multiplication by getting your child to put the same amount of objects in to each group (circle) and work out a set of tables. It’s a really great visual way for children to understand the tables without it seeming monotonous and boring.

Capacity – Maths Activities for Kids

On a hot summers day you can teach your children about capacity in a really fun way. Simply gather lots of different bottles, different shapes and sizes and fill them up with the same amount of water. They can predict which has more water in and less. Children can see that a bigger bottle may look less full than a smaller bottle which may be full to the top with the same amount of water in.

Times Tables Scavenger Hunt

Go on a scavenger hunt with times tables! You can put different numbers from a specific times tables hidden around in chalk on a graveled area with arrows pointing to the next table. The game is that the child has to find all of the tables. You could add a little chocolate or sweet treat maybe at the end of the hunt for extra fun and encouragement!

Find and Count Objects

One of our very simple maths activities for kids – simply go on a treasure hunt for things in the garden, woodland or even around the house. You can then make a tally with your child of how many of each item you have found.

Play Shops – Maths Activities for Kids

A really good maths activity is to play shops with your child or to set up a shop for them and give them some real or play money. You can label things 5p, 1p, 10p. At first your child may just try and recognise which money is which value. As they get older you can introduce higher value money, giving change and really test them in a fun way.

If you are looking for maths activities for kids with a little more structured Club Hub UK has the largest selection of Educational kids clubs near you. Please use our search engine to find kids educational classes near you. 

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