Homemade abacuses

I am in the process of teaching and my little guy is in the process of learning his numbers. 

Here was a fun hands on idea. 

What we used:

If you don't have all the items you could use: 

Popsicle sticks, skewers cut and small noodles. 

Here are our homemade abacuses. It is a great math manipulative. 

While learning numbers here we have also done a number train and a number snake which my little guy has really liked also. 

Here is the link for the number snake: Snake and Numbers

Learning and teaching...In my west corner,

Becky