Whatever the weather this Christmas, you’ll find an activity here to suit your child. Wrap up warm and go out for a winter scavenger hunt, or stay inside and play party games with our range of festive activity ideas.

51ºÚÁÏÍø is not responsible for the content of external websites.

Your child will love this Christmas version of the popular memory tray game. Find a selection of Christmas objects – for example, a bauble, a mince pie, a small parcel, a satsuma – and arrange them on a tray. Keep the tray covered with a tea-towel or a piece of wrapping paper until you are ready to play the game. Vary the number of objects according to the age of your child. Uncover the tray and give your child a minute to memorise the contents of the tray, then cover it up again. Take the tray away and remove one object. Bring the tray back and ask the child to write down the object that is missing. You could turn this into a competition – perhaps the winner can eat the mince pie!

Baking together is great fun and a good way to get children practicing their measuring and counting skills. These snow-covered gingerbread trees are easy to make and your child will love decorating them.

Can you find the 10 Christmas words hidden in the wordsearch? A fiendish test of your child’s word-spotting skills, the words can be written any way – forwards and backwards, top to bottom and bottom to top, left to right and right to left, and even diagonally.

We all know that sluggish feeling in the Christmas holidays when you have been in the house for days and have eaten one too many mince pies! This winter scavenger hunt is a great way to get everyone outside burning some energy. Give your child or children a bag and a list of things to collect. If you are in the woods, this could be a pine cone, a conker, a twig, a feather, a leaf, a stone. If you are at the beach, they could search for a shell, a piece of seaweed, a stone. Alternatively, you could just have a challenge to see who can find the most of a certain item – pine cones, shells, stones. Another idea is that you could give your child or children a bag each and challenge them to see what treasures they can find.

Follow these steps to make a super snack for the birds in your garden, inspired by theÌýÌýbooks.

Everybody loves pugs, and they’re easy to draw! These activity sheets from the creators ofÌýÌýwill help you draw your own completely unique pug, as well as making a comic, designing a sea monkey, and much more!

More from Oxford Owl

• More Christmas activities for kids
• Children’s books for Christmas

National Numeracy Day is a celebration of everyday maths that’s taking place on Wednesday 19th May 2021. Your child’s school may be taking part in a host of activities, competitions and online events to raise awareness of the importance of numeracy, and there are lots of ways that you can join in too.

National Numeracy Day is designed to empower children – and grown-ups! – to build their confidence and competence with numbers. So if you’re a bit wobbly when it comes to helping your child with maths homework, or home-school maths was a struggle, it’s the perfect time to take your first steps towards stronger numeracy.

How can you take part in National Numeracy Day?

You can get involved by signing up for the National Numeracy Challenge. It’s a free and easy-to-use website for improving your everyday maths, aiming to help you get on better at work, make your money go further, and support your child with learning maths.

National Numeracy have also created a hub full of resources to help you support your child, which includes fun number activities from their celebrity ambassadors. Whether you’re dancing with Strictly’s Katya Jones, or making cupcakes with Bake Off winner Peter Sawkins, the activities will get you and your child thinking differently about numbers.

We’ve also gathered together some of our favourite maths activities and top tips from across Oxford Owl to help you support your child with maths at home and to boost your confidence with numbers.

Find out what your child learns in maths at school

• The curriculum for maths in each school year
• Maths glossary
• Numicon guide for parents

Read our top tips to support your child with maths at home on the Oxford Owl blog

• Overcoming maths anxiety and being positive about numbers
• Times tables tips
• How to help your child with mental arithmetic
• Everyday activities to practise subtraction

Download maths activity sheets (PDF download)

• (Age 3–4)
• (Age 4–5)
• (Age 5–6)
• (Age 5–7)
• (Age 5–7)
• (Age 6–7)
• (Key Stage 1)
• (Age 7–9)

You can also .

Try these interactive maths activities

• (Age 3–4)
• (Age 3–4)
• (Age 4–5)
• (Age 4–5)
• (Age 4–5)
• (Age 5–6)
• (Age 6–7)
• (Age 7–9)

51ºÚÁÏÍø is delighted to be a lead delivery partner for National Numeracy Day.

Maths activity books and flashcards

Explore our full range of maths activity books or take a look at some of our bestsellers below.