My children are learning about their times tables at the moment, so I have been trying to come up with some more creative ways to teach them.
Today I decided to get out the tuff tray and whiteboard pens and draw up a times table grid. For some reason, the tuff tray seems to add an extra bit of fun to any activity. I could have just drawn this out on a piece of paper, but my daughter...
My children are loving maths activities at the moment, so we have been making some simple maths tuff trays. For this one, all I did was write the numbers 1-10 in both numerical and word form. Then I asked my children to draw a line to match up the words and numbers. This taught my children so many skills, like number and word recognition, plus they had lots of fun doing it.
My daughter is really loving maths at the moment and asked me if I could write her some sums for when she came home from school.
I decided to make this a bit more fun by using fish instead of numbers. By using an object instead of a number it also meant she needed to practice her counting skills.
My drawing skills aren’t fantastic so fish seemed to be an easy to thing to...
My son loves making ramps out of all kinds of things to push his monster trucks down, so I thought I would turn it into a painting activity! What you need: 🚘 a ramp - we used a slide but you can use any kind of ramp you can find 🚘 tuff tray or something similar to catch the monster trucks at the bottom of the ramp 🚘 paper 🚘monster trucks 🚘sellotape 🚘paint How to do the activity
The Tiger who came to Tea is such a lovely book, which we love reading at bedtime. As my children love it so much, I used it to make a tuff tray activity.
I had to be quite resourceful to create this tray and dipped into lots of different toy boxes to get all the characters, but it was well worth it for the fun we had.
