Objectives:

• Measuring volume
• Recording observations
• Estimating

Supplies:

• small cube blocks
• play dough (for instructions on making your own click here)
• pencil
• paper

Instructions:

• Have your child make a simple shape with the dough.
• Ask him to guess about how many cubes it would take to make the same shape.
• Have him make the same basic shape with blocks and compare his guess with the actual number of blocks
• Help him make a chart to record his estimates with the actual number of blocks he uses as he makes more complex shapes with the dough and the blocks.