Maths holiday activities
Explore our collection of fun maths activities over the school holidays.
- Baking cookies – challenge your child to a bake-off and reveal their creative side by getting them to bake cookies of different shapes and sizes.
- Beach and bath time – develop your child's understanding of volume and capacity by using different sized and shaped buckets.
- Bubble wands – work with your child to develop their understanding of shapes with these fun bubble wands!
- Car cricket – car cricket is a fast-paced road trip game with scoring variations based on different colour cars and vehicle sizes.
- Car trip playlist – on your next road trip, let your child choose the music. But they have to create a playlist that lasts the exact duration of the trip.
- Cooking for guests – having friends over for spaghetti is always fun, but it takes some planning. Help your child estimate for extra portions.
- Create a robot – teach your child basic geometry by using shapes cut from paper to design their very own robot poster.
- Giving directions without a map – giving directions is a skill in itself. Help your child develop their understanding of angles and direction with this two-player game.
- I-spy with 3D objects – I-spy is a fun game to play when you're travelling by car, but you'd be surprised how much your child will learn if you play using 3D objects.
- Navigate with a map – give your child a map of a venue that you are visiting – like the zoo, a theme park or even a shopping centre, and put them in charge of navigation.
- Packing your suitcase – a road trip, camp or sleepover is an exciting way to build your child's understanding of capacity, using the process of packing.
- Paper planes – this fun activity with paper planes can teach your child the basics of measuring length.
- Rubik's cube – solving a Rubik's cube is not easy on the first try, but there's actually an algebraic formula to help your child complete the puzzle.
- Sketching a portrait – your child can use shapes to hone their drawing craft of living subjects - from plants to family members.
- Swimming strokes – get your child to jump in the water and swim with their friends to improve their skills at estimating length.
