Learn to Add Numbers

This addition machine is hungry for numbers! It shows children that there are multiple ways to get to the same number. It can grow with your children because you can put in any numbers you want. Let me know if you make this addition machine! MATERIALS:⠀ - Gift Box style Cardboard Box ( the lid should fold over the top and front) - Box cutter - Two Paper Cups - Pencil - Two Colored Paper Squares - Marker - Tape - Dry Erase Marker - Pom Poms, paper scrunched into balls or any small soft objects INSTRUCTIONS:⠀ (1) Take your box and cut the top portion of the lid in half. Remove the half of the lid that's attached to the front, and put it aside. We'll need it for later. (2) Turn the box, so the section we just cut is now the front. This makes the back of the box the new top. On this new top, trace two circles with the bottom of your paper cups, and use the box cutter to cut the circles out. (3) Cut our the bottoms of the paper cups, and place them into the holes. (4) Take the portion of the box we cut off and put in into the cut hole, making a lip to catch the balls and make it easier to take them out. (5) On the coloured paper, write an addition sign on one, and then an equal sign on the other. Tape the "plus" sign on the outside near the cups and the "equal" sign near the inside bottom. (6) Cut two squares of wide tape, and place them on both sides of the plus sign. (7) Write in the numbers with a dry-erase marker (8) Now use the machine to find the answer! Drop paper balls in each cups and count them up!