Candy Heart Measuring Math Activity

Candy heart measuring and math play! Explore standard and non standard measuring as well as number recognition and one to one counting! These candy hearts make for perfect Valentine’s early learning play! We have also used candy hearts for a fun math game, sink and float science, in our oobleck and with our salt dough! The possibilities are endless with one simple bag of conversation heart candies!

Candy Heart Measuring Math Activity

This candy heart measuring activity is quick and easy to set up. All you need our different sized paper hearts, ruler or tape measure, and conversation heart candies! You can add a pen and dice for variety or additional play. We also measured out some lines and took turns rolling the die and counting out candies until we used up what was in our tray!

To begin our candy heart measuring, I modeled the first heart by showing him the measuring tape and pulling it out across the widest part of the heart. Then I showed him how we can also measure by using the candy hearts. He already knew our candy heart measuring was called standard and non-standard measurement from Sid The Science Kid. As long as you use the same thing {like a candy heart} you can measure with it! That’s called non standard measurement. A ruler or tape measure would be standard measurement.