Kids don’t like sitting at the books much today, and solving a mathematic case in a notebook seems very boring to them. We have a great solution: turn the boring activities into a fun game, get the kids interested in a fun counting game with their favorite characters in the cartoon “How to Train Your Dragon 3.” With Toothless and Light Fury, children will quickly master addition, and then multiplication. In this game, mental activities are paired with physical ones, which will allows to grab the child’s attention for longer. And development of motor skills will be a pleasant bonus will make memorization easier and faster. Learn with fun with Superb Crafts!
The supplies are colored paper, tape, cork, a puncher, some pencils and pen, acrylic paints, a paintbrush, an egg carton, scissors.
Toothless
Take an egg carton and cut it in halves, then remove everything excessive; paint a part with black acrylic paint.
Take black paper and scissors and cutout all the parts of Toothless of it. Add yellow circles, then black and then white ones on the head to make the eyes and a touch of red to the tail. Place another part in black on top and draw a nose on the dragon head. Glue all the paper parts to the dragon body.
Day Fury
Trace a cork circle on blue paper and cut it out.
Cut out a head of white paper and add blue eyes to it using colored paper again. Draw a nose and a mouth with an ink pen or whatever else you have at hand. Attach wings cut out of white paper on top, add body details to give the dragon a more dimensional look. Pin the dragon to the blue circle so that it could spin around.
Now make some clouds: fold the paper sheet several times and draw some clouds on it, then cut them out receiving lots of them. Take duct tape and attach the clouds one by one to it, cut off the excessive trim. Hot glue the clouds to the blue circle with your dragon and write some mathematic tasks on each. You can wipe them anytime you want as there’s some duct tape.
Punch some circles and write the answers to the tasks on them. Put them into the Toothless body and let your kids start playing!.
When the kid gives the right answer, he or she can throw a ball at that place. So fun!.
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