CAR SHOOT

Things you will need:

Toy cars

Alternatives:

• Trains

• Balls

• Beads

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Poster tube

Alternatives:

• Kitchen roll tube

• Flat cardboard

• Rolled up cardboard

Large paper

Alternatives:

• Masking tape

• Ruler

Rest one end of the tube on a table and the other on the floor.

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Lay the paper out from the end of the tube and mark as many measurements as you like (they don't need to be real measurements - numbers 1 to 5 would do).

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Drop the cars down the tube and see how far they travel.

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Ask them to call out the number it reaches. (If they are not ready for yet, seeing these in print, representing increasingly greater values is a great foundation for their number recognition)

Ways to extend:

• Reach greater numbers on the paper.

• Experiment with different weights and shapes dropped down the tube.

• See what happens when you adjust the angle of the tube.