Shapes, design and numbers

Build your own houses out of recycled materials.

Math awareness

Focus is on geometrical shapes and on design and numbers.

Materials

Various recycled materials, e.g. cans, cardboard boxes, milk cartons, toilet rolls, colours, decoration, paper, glue

Activity

Choose a number for your house and let the decorations fit with this number e.g. the number of windows or elements used.

Learn/Play

Build a small town with the various houses. Line the houses up according to their housenumbers. Talk about the various shapes.