New Life for an Ancient Tool – Making and Using Abaci With Elementary Age Kids
Luna2016-01-01T21:49:51-07:00What can you do with a group of kids, corrogated cardboard, a lot of beads, pipe cleaners, and some masking or decorative duct tape? Make abaci, of course! With a little bit of preliminary work, this is a craft program that even pre-schoolers can master. The tools I used in my program were: - 6" x 6" corrogated cardboard (2-3 pieces glued together with the "tunnels" running perpendicular to one another) If using 3 layers, I make sure the center layer has the vertical channels. That [...]