Skills Practice Tube

Don’t know about you, but I have about 12 empty salt containers sitting in my craft closet. I have a few ideas for them, but thought of this one in the middle of the night last night.  My son needs practice with his math facts and I created this in hopes giving him a fun and different way to practice.

Materials

empty salt container

colored paper

packing tape or clear contact paper

scissors

glue

clear tape

templates (click the image below to download)

Creating Your Practice Tube

Cover your salt container with colored paper. You don’t have to do this step, but I think it looks nicer this way. Cover the container with packing tape or contact paper. This is good not only for durability, but also helps the paper slide around the container more easily.

Cut the templates apart being sure not to cut the top off.  I add some clear tape at both ends. This allows me to remove the strips and replace them with others without tearing the paper.

Wrap one strip around the container and tape the ends together.

Repeat with the other strip.

Finally, I cut out two green arrows and attached them with clear tape. This will help students know where to line up the numbers.

The tube is now complete and ready to use! You can use this particular set of number to strips to practice addition, subtraction, and multiplication facts. The second set of strips in the free template is the same only has numbers 10-20 for students who are ready for higher numbers.

I have also created strips to practice the following skills:

number sense with dots and numbers

lower case and upper case letters

short vowel sounds

To purchase these strips, click the following link:

Salt Container Skills Practice Tube from BMTM

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This week at After School, I noticed lots of bright colors and different kinds of paints. The colors grabbed my attention and just begged to be collected here. 🙂  I actually  think the bright colors just made me hopeful for spring….

Rainbow Flour Paint Recipe from Learn Play Imagine

Chalk Paint Recipe from Smart School House

The Rainbow Milk Color Experiment from Creekside Learning

Sidewalk Paint from Privileged to Proclaim

Easy Homemade Paint Recipe from the Imagination Tree

Condensed Milk Painting from Boy Mama Teacher Mama

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