Measurement

Length

Use your feet to measure and record how long and how wide your bedroom/ lounge/ kitchen/ shed (or any room in your house). Try adding different types of shoes and see if there is any difference in your measurement. Why?
Use chalk to draw around your brother, sister or family member. Measure how long and wide they are using a ruler, or a measuring tape or even a piece of string.
On a piece of paper, draw the outline of your foot (with or without shoes). Measure how long and wide your foot is.
Use a physical item to measure places around your house. Various physical informal measuring objects e.g. paper clips, erasers, pens, hand spans
Create a caterpillar out of playdough. Measure and record how many paper clips long and wide it is. Describe your caterpillar. Is it fat, skinny, long or short?
Trace the outline of your hand on paper. Measure your hand. Record your measurement and compare it with a friend or family member.
Measure items around the house with a standard ruler (informally). Make sure you keep your place using your finger and use your measurement tracking skills. Order the items from longest to shortest.

Place as many shoes as you can on a piece of newspaper. Can you add more by rearranging them? Make sure they stay flat on the paper and are not stacked!
Measure how many people can fit into a square area standing up. How many people can fit in crouching down? Stay within the lines of the area. (a 1 m x 1 m area marked out with electrical tape chalk or similar)
Draw an outline of your hand on paper. See how many plastic beans (or any other small item, eg. dried pasta, lego) you can fit inside the outline your hand.
Cut out several of the same shape of your choice. Paste them as tightly as you can onto your paper. How many can you fit?

Use a ‘seesaw’ ( eg. e.g. a drink can and ruler taped together) to balance items so that each arm of the seesaw stays off the ground. Draw a picture once it has balanced.
Feel the mass of several objects. Put them in order from lightest to heaviest.
Attach a bull clip to each end of an elastic strip. Put one clip on a wall fixing. Attach the other clip to an object and see how far it pulls down. Compare objects to see which is heaviest and lightest by how low the item pulls the elastic.

Measure how many of the same item you can fit into various containers. Which container can hold the most items?
Take 10 connecting cubes ( or lego) and create an object. Compare your object with a friend and discuss which one is longer, shorter, wider, thinner.
Peg pictures of different items onto a line of string. Decide which one has the most volume and the least volume.
Choose an object from your home and create a 3D model of it using connecting cubes. Record how many cubes your object uses.
Use connecting cubes to create your own creative structure. Make sure you keep track of how many cubes you use. Draw a picture to show the volume of your object.

Compare how much different containers hold by pouring cups of water into them and counting how many will fit in. Empty the containers in order from the one that holds the least water to the one that holds the most.
Fill a teapot or jug using cups of water and count how many you need to fill it to the top. Empty the teapot and then fill it again but, this time, only fill the cups halfway.
Build and decorate a popcorn box. Fill it up with popcorn and record how many pieces of popcorn you need to fill your box.
Compare the capacity of different containers. How many mugs of liquid do they hold? Identify which container holds the most liquid and which one holds the least liquid.
You have a jug to fill with lemonade and need to see how many glasses will fill with one jug. Measure how many cups will fill the jug. How many jugs will you need so that everyone in the class can have a full cup?

Peg pictures of activities on a line of string in order from those that would take the longest amount of time to do, through to the shortest.
Order the months of the year and put the correct season icon next to them. Put the days of the week in order, then put the activity pictures next to the day they happen.
Make a timetable of tasks that you do each day of the week. Make sure you put them in the correct order.

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