Tens and Units with Diggers and Toddlers

Numbers can be stimulating if they are tactile,

and hook onto their interests

Colourful, solid, smooth, round, long, spherical

flat, square, numbers, tiles, smooth, mixed up, jumbled

" What is this? 

I like this.

What is a hook?

What is this for?

What does it do?" 

 Toddler play along side Montessori style tens and units lesson

with homemade tens bead bars and digger number cards from here

See the other activities in our Construction Unit on the left bar

and our September giveaway

Construction Area Signs

Decorate your construction area with these signs

to download from this pack here

The boys pegged them up around their play area and used blu-tack 

on walls and cupboards.

Let's get building!

See the side bar on the left for our Construction unit links

and our September giveaway!

What's On Our Shelves For Our Construction Theme

We are using this Unit and also these trays:

A transferring activity- using these coloured plastic ice cubes ( not frozen)

transferring them onto a truck with a teabag strainer/tong

Transferring black beads (rubble) to the truck with lemon slice tongs

All ready to deliver, off we go.

 Sorting nuts and bolts by size and shape. Matching them up and making pairs.

Sticklebricks from Charity Shop

Ordering diggers set 1-20 downloadable from Sparklebox here

Pin pushing pictures of diggers/tools self drawn.

We are also using toy pigs to tell the 3 Little Pigs Story
inspired from Structured Play here. She has some nice construction ideas.

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Have you seen our gorgeous giveaway here?

Linking to:

Making a construction site & how to make moonsand.

We created a real Construction Site Scene with their small construction vehicles

and a plastic playmat from Ebay for £2.50 on the kitchen table.

You could design your own on a huge piece of paper.

We made our own builder's sand which can be moulded into bricks and things.

This is how you make moon sand:

1 cup of sand to 1/2 a cup cornrstarch 

( however much you want to make this is the ratio)

Mix water with cornstarch first and add food colouring.

Then add to sand.

Add glitter if you want.

Keep in an airtight box and add a few drops of water if it dries out.

Simple!

Part of our construction unit

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ps it sticks to your socks/feet/clothes when playing

so wash off before you run around on the carpet!

Construction Unit Printables

We are now learning about Construction Vehicles

so I made my boys some printables to put on the shelves

Click on image for Scribd or here for Googledocs download

In this unit you will find:

Matching pairs

3 part cards

Counting 1- 10 with numerals

Cutting practice strips

Counting worksheet

 Addition worksheet

Sorry the printables wouldn't transfer across to Blogger

so these are photos of the sheets laminated before I cut them out for my Seeds.

Check out the link to see a clear view.

Print 1 sheet or the whole pack.

I have made things to suit both my boys who are 20 months and 4 years.

The unit is for your personal use not for resale or my gnomes will come and find you

and tell the troll who lives under my stairs....and we all know what happens then!

I hope you like it.

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Graphics by BabyStarDesign@MyGrafico

Part of our Construction Unit Ideas and part 2

Have you seen our gorgeous giveaway?