A chain link count down is a classic tool to help kids anticipate exciting events. It can be tailored to many age groups from pre-school and up. Today I worked on this activity with my eight year old. Because it is the beginning of the month we did a mini study of the calendar. We talked about the holidays in the month- Halloween, Yom Kippor- How many days are in this month, other months and then I asked leading questions to focus on a specific date- October 15th-
The Jewish equivalent of Christmas for the monkeys-
The day that Meme and Zadie (grandma and grandpa) come to visit us from Florida
What we used:
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| I opted for a tape measure because he likes using them |
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| We figured out we needed 12 links on our chain |
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| We chose colors- in this case primary colors- We calculated how many strips of paper we should divide each piece into Measured them (just for fun and practice) |
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| Cut them slowly and carefully |
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| Decided on a pattern- and started glueing them and holding them for a count of 30 seconds Counting forward, counting backwards, counting by twos to…60, counting by fives, etc. |
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| And now we have a visual count down chain |
very cute idea ren! i've never thought of doing a chain link for a count down but think i'm going to use it someday now for sure.
ReplyDeleteI love making the links, Although, we haven't done that in quite some time.
ReplyDeletewhat a great idea :-) thanks for sharing, hugs Laura
ReplyDeleteI loved making paper chains as a child, such a fun activity! ~April
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