Ways to play with roll manipulative

Ways to play with the Manipulative made of Toilet Rolls

How to make these roll manipulative? click here

1) Teaching 1, 2 , 3 with it.

You can get the child to count and stick the number of rolls together.

Having fun building a number pyramid.

Faith is proud of the number tower that she has built.

2) Teaching multiplication. 

The rolls can make abstract concepts concrete and visual for the child and hence it aids understanding. 

4) Teaching A, B, C
Get your child to form the alphabets. Forming the alphabets will definitely interest kinesthetic and visual learners.

Faith have just finished forming letter A.

3D Letter A. 

Form and re form letters in just a few secs.

Emmanuel is forming the first letter of his name. 

Letter S. With these manipulative stuck in a straight line, you can form different letters in just seconds.
There is no need to stick them one by one. 

5) Creative Play

What I really like about this manipulative is that it one set of materials that can be play in many different ways. This is where your children can let their imagination go wild. 

Christmas Tree

Pyramid

I used this opportunity to teach them about the different triangles. 

Attempting to build a palace.

Emmanuel's Robot. 

Faith, deciding on something as simple as a binoculars. 

And of course, Emmanuel's favourite train. 

2 D Robot. 

Robot. 

These roll manipulative are really simple to make. To learn how to make them, click here.

I really believe in teaching my children to recycle and save the environment. Especially in Singapore where we have limited resources. We have to learn how to maximum the resources that we have. Reducing, reusing, and recycling is a very important part of our lives.

Recyclables can be turned into something really useful and fun for the children. Do look out for more ideas for using recyclables. Will be put up soon.