I’m working with Miles every day or at least trying to work with him every day. Some days we play school all day and others we just don’t do anything. One day, I decided we should make a countdown chain for our vacation, and the kids weren’t too thrilled. So I started making it myself and when Miles saw how easy it was he decided he wanted to finish and make two more chains to count down to other things.

You can use an opportunity like this to teach, counting, sorting, addition, subtraction, hand eye coordination, and glue skills. We used tape.

How To Make a Count Down Chain

Supplies needed:

Paper cutter
Construction paper
Tape

Directions:

Cut the construction paper into about 1 inch strips

Loop them through each other until you run out of strips