We love using manipulatives for hands-on educational activities, but I’m not always happy with what is available commercially. I wanted small clay number manipulatives that both had numbers but that could also be used for counting and illustrating math in a concrete way. One night, we came up with the idea to make clay number manipulatives from …
Hands-on math activities
Help first and second graders solidify math facts with this fun hands-on number sentence game! Kids will love doing math this way! Math games are an excellent way to bring fun and learning together. Some of our favorite math games were our Uno math game and dice multiplication. This fun number sentence game is also tons …
This post is part of the 31 days of STEM activities for kids series. One of my favorite things to do when I was young was make play stores for my siblings. However, our stores were never quite as math-intensive as this particular store that Monkey and I set up together. Scroll to the …



