6 Activities to Foster Early Math Skills

Early math skills are foundational for your child’s future learning. Introducing these concepts in a fun and engaging way can create a love for learning and exploration that lasts a lifetime.
The Lovevery Block Kit is a fantastic tool that can help you introduce and support early math concepts for your two-year-old. Here’s how you can use this versatile kit to foster your little one’s mathematical development.

How to Support Early Math Concepts for Your Two-Year-Old

Counting and Quantity

Child engaging with colorful wooden shapes and matching them on a large sheet of paper.

Start simple by counting blocks together. Lay out a few blocks and count them out loud with your child.
Show them how to touch each block as you count it to reinforce the idea that each number corresponds to a specific quantity.

Activity: Counting Blocks

Interactive Play:

Ask your child to hand you a certain number of blocks.

Play a game where you count blocks into a container, emphasizing the numbers as you go along.

Recognizing Numbers

Use the number cards to help your child recognize numbers. Place the cards in front of them and ask them to match the correct number of blocks to each card. For example, place the card with the number 3 on it and help your child count out three blocks to match.

Activity: Number Matching Math Skills

Interactive Play:

Create a number line using the blocks and number cards, helping your child to arrange them in order.

Play a game of “What’s Missing?” by removing a block from a sequence and asking your child to identify which number is missing.

Understanding Shapes
What You Need: Lovevery Block Kit’s Shape Blocks

The Lovevery Block Kit includes blocks of different shapes. Encourage your child to sort these shapes into groups and name them. This activity helps in recognizing and differentiating between shapes, which is a fundamental math skill.

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Set of colorful wooden blocks and shapes with sorting box and activity guide, arranged neatly on a black background.

Activity: Shape Sorting

Interactive Play:

Create simple patterns using different shapes and ask your child to replicate them.

Hide a shape behind your back and describe it to your child, asking them to guess which shape it is.

Building Spatial Awareness

Child building a tower with colorful wooden blocks on a patterned carpet in a living room.

Building towers with blocks is not only fun but also helps your child develop spatial awareness.
As they stack blocks, they understand concepts like balance, height and stability.

Activity: Tower Building

Interactive Play:

Challenge your child to build a tower as high as they can without it falling.

Use the blocks to create simple structures and ask your child to count the blocks used.

Introduction to Patterns

Create simple patterns using the colorful blocks and encourage your child to continue the pattern.
For example, lay out a sequence like red block, blue block, red block, and ask your child to find the next block in the pattern.

Assorted colorful wooden blocks and shapes with building structures and a wooden storage box.

Activity: Pattern Creation

Interactive Play:

Use different colors or shapes to create more complex patterns as your child becomes more skilled.

Turn it into a guessing game where you start a pattern and your child has to guess what comes next.

Sorting and Categorizing

Child playing with colorful wooden blocks and sorting bowls on a carpet.

The different colored blocks in the Lovevery Block Kit are perfect for sorting activities. Ask your child to sort the blocks by color and count how many blocks are in each group.