20 Fun Number Line Activities

Help children improve number sense with these super cute, engaging, and o so FUN Number line activities for preschool pre k, kindergarten, and first grade students. You will use Lego to make an interactive number line, plant a number line garden, get gross motor skills involved in making an outdoor number line, and so many more fun number lines for you to make as you practice math!

Number Line Activities

Helping kids learn how to count in order, going back and forth as children add and subtract, can be a confusing concept or a the lightbulb they need to understand addition and subtraction. Number Lines are a great tool in developing number sense which will help prepare your child for more intricate math like positive and negative numbers.  These engaging and interactive number line activities are a great hands on activity for toddlers, preschoolers, kindergartners, and grade 1 students to have fun counting forward and backward.

Number line activities for kindergarten

Your Lego lovers will enjoy this Lego number line activity and also cracking a number line secret code using Lego people!

For the children that need to be active to learn, this number line run, gross motor flower number line or Nature number scavenger hunt will be a hit.

Plant a number line, an easy to setup activity and also good for fine motor skills. So is this clothes line numbers and DIY number line that use pegs!

Number Line Games

A game of number line smash with paper bags looks like a super fun activity too.

Use loose parts to make a number line or let a toy grasshopper jump the numbers!
Games are a great way to practice some skills, like this dice game or pumpkin number line game. Or get the whole family involved with a hilarious number line game for the whole family.

This number line slider bag idea is close to genius! A frugal, but effective way to use a slider bag with counting AND it is reusable too!

Number line activity

Add some craft sticks to a toilet paper roll number line for practicing counting for little ones.
This butterflies and flowers activity looks like a fun game and have the kids participate in a human number line as a hands(or rather body) on way to practice numbers!

This story about the naughty numbers are fantastic to explain where numbers go in a line and which way it faces.

Lastly, here are a few free printables you can use when working on number line skills: Interactive number line printable, bookmark slider, number lines with frames and more number line templates.

Zoo Animals Printable Number Sense Activity

Have fun with all these number line activities!

Addition Practice

This is such a fun, hands on math game for kindergartners that helps achieve fluency while having FUN!