Braelyn will have her new math curriculum arriving any day. The Horizons math can include a 'kit' should you choose to purchase it. The kit includes many things you will need for the little budding mathematician. The items are crayons, colored beads for counting and sorting, scissors and dominoes just to name a few. Since we have these items in abundance thanks to Mommy being a teacher and a house full of crafty girls we decided to save the $60 and make our own kit.
Crayons, scissors and the like are common fare and we have them everywhere! The beads we don't keep as much so we decided to go with the popular colored noodles. Here is how we made them.
We found large straight macaroni noodles, a few small bowls and various dyes to try. The food coloring dyes will make the noodles safe in case a little one gets the idea to eat them.
Mix your desired dye in the bowl with just a little water, just enough to get the color you want and enough to just cover the amount of noodles you are dying
Microwave the bowl for about 20 secounds to help the color set in. This deepens the color.
Place the now dyed noodles on a plate lined with plastic wrap or paper for easy clean up.
Set the noodles to dry. On a hot day like today-using the sun is a great way to speed up the process.
NOW use you noodles for crafts, necklaces or as counters for math.
Enjoy your smart savings-it is more expensive than counting rocks I guess, but the results are much cheaper than the package counters sold for homeschoolers.
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