The weather is getting warmer and that means one thing: my children can now be entertained for hours with outdoor water play!! Here are 10 math and water play activities perfect for your little one!

When I saw this simple roll and circle game, I knew it would be a perfect way to practice subitizing with my five-year-old son. Even better—it couldn’t be easier to set up! I printed off this sheet of dot paper, grabbed some dice and markers, and we were ready to roll!

A favorite outdoor activity of ours is playing the disappearing number line. My son LOVES getting to spray the chalk away AND he’s building a ton of number sense by thinking about the relationships between numbers on the number line.

Number Line Hop is one of our favorite rainy day activities because it gets my kiddos moving indoors and, no matter how they choose to play, they’re getting exposed to some BIG number sense concepts. My kiddos think we’re just hopping around in the kitchen, but what I know is we’re planting all kinds of number relationships seeds as they physically move up and back on a number line.

Making sets of more, less, and the same is one of those powerhouse activities that SEEMS simple but is actually building HUGE number sense. Why?? Read on…

There are no real snowmen in our foreseeable future, but these number sense snowmen will tide us over for now! This simple game is such a FUN way to talk about number relationships within 10!

Build the important number sense skill of knowing one more and one less through this fun New Year’s activity.

Floating Numbers is another favorite of ours that combines counting practice with outdoor summer water play! ️

Number Splash is a great way to make counting practice fun! Counting out a given number is a slightly different skill than counting a set that already exists.