A while ago we had made a guitar out of the same rubber bands and a loaf pan. He remembered that and tested out the rubber bands to see if they made music on our geo board. Above he is strumming the bands. This led him to remove all the bands and make a new “guitar”. These boards are awesome for creating art, exploring shapes, and developing visual skills. Did you know, they are also super for working on fine motor skills! You can’t make a shape until you can get the rubber bands around the nails! SIMPLE GEO BOARD SUPPLIES This is ingenious! It’s also a terrific way to play with geoboards when kids don’t quite have the fine-motor control for smaller pegs.

Creating Shapes: The simplest use of a geoboard is to create different shapes. By stretching a rubber band around different pegs, you can create squares, rectangles, triangles, and other polygons. Make our homemade Geo Board for fine motor skills practice and STEM learning! What is STEM?, read all about it!

Look at those little fingers go to work. He is actually enjoying it, creating shapes, working hand muscles, developing spatial skills, and practicing fine motor skills. Quite an activity that didn’t take much to make and so little money to make!

Geoboard is a tool for exploring a variety of mathematical topics introduced in the elementary and middle grades. Learners stretch bands around the pegs to form line segments and polygons and make discoveries about perimeter, area, angles, congruence, fractions, and more. This virtual version of the manipulative is an open-ended educational tool, ideal for elementary classrooms and other learning environments.Area and perimeter can be challenging to understand, so explain them using geoboards. Learn how at the link. To learn about Bridges in Mathematics, an elementary curriculum that employs visual models such as the geoboard, please visit: www.mathlearningcenter.org/bridges/overview therefore, mathematical models are of even more importance to help children grasp concepts and have mental images to draw upon as the complexity of challenge develops. (To find out more about the importance of mathematical models, see the articles From Objects and Images to Mathematical Ideas and Models in Mind). A simple geo board is not only an awesome STEM activity but it is also a wonderful tool for encouraging fine motor skills! This DIY geo board is so simple to make and will only cost you a few dollars. Create geometric shapes and patterns in minutes. We love a simple geo board for young kids math activities. SIMPLE GEO BOARD YOU CAN MAKE! GEO BOARDS FOR STEM PLAY