This document outlines several math and science activities for early childhood students. Activities include matching games with leaves and numbers, classifying objects by color, comparing apples and oranges, making shapes with pipe cleaners, discussing spatial concepts on the playground, building fraction pizzas, creating patterns with blocks, ordering numbers, mixing play dough using measurement, tasting fruit and graphing favorites. The presenter found that these no-cost activities using materials from the classroom were engaging for students and served as good transitions between lessons.

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2. Matching
• Leaf Matching Game
• Individuals or Groups
• Materials: color and shape
matching leaves.
• Encourage the children to make
matched based on color and
shape.
• The Children were able to make
matches based on color and
shape as well as grouping leaves
by just color or shape.

3. Numbers
• Numbers/Dots Game
• Individual or Groups
• Materials: Number cards 0-5, 15
dots
• Encourage the children to pick a
card, identify the number and add
the correct amount of dots to the
card.
• Some children could identify
numbers 1-3 very well, while others
worked well with all 0-5

4. Classifying
• Color Game
• Individual or Groups
• Materials: 5 different colors of
construction paper, 4 objects
matching each color.
• Encourage the children to
classify the objects by color,
placing each object on the
matching construction paper.
• The children had a lot of fun
with this activity, they all were
able to classify by colors.

5. Classifying

6. Comparing
• Apples to Oranges
• Class
• Materials: 1 apple and 1 orange,
enough slices of each to pass out
to your class.
• Encourage the class to compare
the apples to the orange. We
discussed size, shape, color,
texture and taste.
• They loved this project because
they got to eat it.

7. Comparing

8. Shapes
• Pipe Cleaner Game
• Individual or Group
• Pipe Cleaners and Shape cards
• Encourage the children to name
the shape on the card you hold
up, then copy the shape with
their pipe cleaner.
• The children were good at
Circles and triangles, but got
frustrated with the pipe cleaner.

9. Space
• Space
• Group
• Discuss space with students,
up on top, to the side, inside,
and bottom.
• I took the class on to the
play ground and I had them
use the train set to show me
if they understood the
meaning of on top, bottom
ect.

10. Parts/Whole
• Fraction Pizzas
• Individual or Group
• Fractions Pizza Card, 1
whole, 2 halves and 4 ¼
slices of Pizza.
• Encourage the children
to build a whole Pizza
using different slices.

11. Parts/Whole

12. Ordering
• Pattern Game
• Individual or Groups
• Pattern blocks of different size,
shape and color and shoe strings.
• Encourage the children to make
patterns using the blocks by
stringing them onto the shoe
strings.
• I was very surprised at the
patterns the children were able
to make.

13. Ordering
• Number Game
• Individual
• Number cards 0-5
• Encourage the child to
place the numbers in
order.
• All the children were
able to put some of the
cards in order, I had a
few who could have gone
passed five.

14. Ordering

15. Measurements
• Mixing Play dough
• Class
• Materials: measuring
cups, bowls, spoons,
flour, salt. Water and
food coloring.
• Mix together 1 cup of
flour, 1 cup of salt, and
¾ a cup of colored water
and mix well.

16. Measurements

17. Graphing
• Favorite fruit Apples or
Oranges
• Class
• Need a slice of Apple
and orange for each
student to taste, and
graphing materials.
• Each student marked
their favorite and we
graphed it.

18. Graphing

19. Findings
• I spent no money on any of these
projects.
• These were all projects that I made
from materials that my classroom
already had.
• They were fun for the children and made
good transition games.