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Teach Basic Shapes with this cool house!

Nine Fun Ways to Use Wikki Stix in the Classroom

1. Pizza Party: Use Wikki Stix to label your wall for a classroom pizza party. They are easily removed and will not damage the wall! 2. House of Shapes: Use Wikki Stix to teach about shapes. Notice that this design contains multiple shapes inside the image! 3. Hang pictures: Are you out of tape? Don’t …

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Addition with Wikki Stix Touch Math

Touch Math with Wikki Stix: Addition

We recently wrote a blog post about using Wikki Stix in Touch Point Math. We are carrying on our Touch Point Math suggestions today by demonstrating the use of  Wikki Stix during Touch Point addition. First we printed the numbers 1-9 on 8 ½ x 11 paper. We then laminated every page with 5 mil …

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More hands on learning with Wikki Stix

Wikki Stix in Tanzania (East Africa)

This is from the Jaffery Academy Special Education Needs department in Tanzania (East Africa). “The children use Wikki Stix with a lot of concentration and eye hand coordination (as you can see in the pictures attached) and the class becomes quiet suddenly… indeed it brought joy not only to the students of mixed abilities but …

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Social Emotional Skills with Wikki Stix

Here’s a fun idea for teaching about feelings and building on social emotional skills: Use Wikki Stix to create faces. Pin your poster to the wall and each morning, as your students enter the room, ask them to point to the face that represents how they are feeling. You can do this at home, also, …

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A double sided Mother's Day Card, a fun craft idea for the kids

Double-Sided Mother’s Day Card with Wax Paper and Wikki Stix

You will need: Wikki Stix (various colors) Wax paper (one sheet) Card stock (one piece) Crayons (for the rubbing) Pen or Wikkies (to write Happy Mother’s Day!) Instructions: Create your colorful flower on the wax paper, using Wikki Stix. Push down so the Wikki Stix are well positioned. Take your card stock paper and lay …

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Nine Fun Ways to Use Wikki Stix in the Classroom Touch Math with Wikki Stix: Addition Wikki Stix in Tanzania (East Africa) Social Emotional Skills with Wikki Stix Double-Sided Mother’s Day Card with Wax Paper and Wikki Stix

Apr
15

Under the Sea with Wikki Stix: Jelly Fish and Ocean Scene

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For the Jelly Fish you will need:

  1. One flat plastic lid that you can reuse after washing (we used a Lays Chip lid)
  2. One rounded plastic lid that you can reuse after washing (for the top of the jelly fish head)
  3. Pen (to make holes in the lid)
  4. White Wikki Stix (for the jelly fish legs)

Instructions:

Poke holes through your flat lid, using the pen. Slide your white Wikki Stix through and secure each one. They will easily stick to your plastic lid. Place your rounded lid on top, as the jelly fish head. Get your jelly on!

Make Jelly Fish with Wikki Stix
For the Ocean Scene you will need:

  1. A variety of Wikki Stix colors
  2. Cardstock or large art paper

Create an ocean scene for a classroom or home school ocean lesson plan. Use the Wikki Stix to make fish, coral, sea shells, a rock, a crab, a turtle, sea grass and more! Create a large display if this will be done in a classroom setting – so your students can hang the finished scene on the wall to enjoy for months to come. For at-home activities, a smaller display will work great.
Under the sea Ocean lesson plan from Wikki Stix

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Apr
15

Touch Math using Wikki Stix Manipulatives: Counting

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Janet Bullock, Founder, President and CEO of Innovative Learning Concepts Inc, states:

“I was an elementary school teacher searching for a better way to shepherd my students through beginning math—a self-esteem-robbing ordeal for far too many children. Then came an idea. I placed counting points on numbers to help certain students understand how a symbol represents a quantity. To my delight, it clicked! This simple idea brought almost immediate results. I had discovered a new way to teach children the critical transition from concrete to symbolic learning. A new multisensory math was born—TouchMath!”

By adding symbols to the letters, struggling students are finding success through Touch Math. This is a terrific approach to use with your sensory and visual learners. General education rooms are also now using Touch Math to teach their students in a hands-on way.

Wikki Stix manipulatives can assist by offering students a hands-on, 3-D, tactile experience. Wikki Stix can be used with worksheets, on the board as a demo, during math lessons and more. Wikki Stix are also great for fine motor skill development: an added bonus of using the product in the classroom with children who need fine motor practice.

Here’s one example of how Wikk Stix can be used in Touch Math:

Touch Math, using Wikki Stix manipulatives for sensory and visual learning

What you will need:

  1. Create printouts of numbers 1-9. Use a Sans-Serif font (i.e. no hat or tail on the #1 and no closed #4). Good examples of Sans-Serif fonts are Arial, Helvetica and Myriad Pro.
  2. Wikki Stix (two different colors).

Roll the Wikki Stix into curled circles to use as your Touch Points. Use a second Wikki Stix color for your outer Touch Points. Place, or have the child place, the Touch Points in the proper locations (see our image). Touch and count! Each solid dot gets one count. Each double dot receives two counts. For instance: on #7, the first solid dot is one count. Each additional double dot is two counts. This will total seven.

Add-on idea: cut the printout numbers (about 6×6 or 8×8) with a paper cutter and laminate each one. You can use the laminated cards again and again. The Wikki Stix will easily pull off and can also be re-used.

For a complete description of how to use Touch Math visit the Touch Math Slideshow.  Locate a few free printouts from the Touch Math site.

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Apr
08

We LOVE Wikki Stix

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Written by The Nurse Mommy Blog

I just love finding new products for my boys. Especially when it is something that not only entertains but also helps develop some motor skills and creativity. My oldest son was sick all last week with the flu and we had lots of time to just hang out at home. When the Fedex truck dropped off the box from Wikki Stix our days were much more easier to get through. When he wasn’t sleeping we were sitting at the breakfast table bending these awesome stix!

Using Wikki Stix to Teach I am always on the hunt for something that I can get my oldest to sit down and focus on because he has ADHD, and sitting still is very difficult for this kiddo. I was very suprised to see him sit for about 40 minutes and play with the Wikki Stix. We recieved 2 products to try out and we have seriously used them heavily over the last several days. My 3 year old also loved them! My oldest has really poor gross motor skills and although ideally I should be sitting him down every day and making him work on cutting paper, it just doesn’t happen. It also does not hold his attention and he gets frustrated. So these are perfect to help work those hand muscles that are so important right now.

Another fun craft idea for kids... a Wikki Stix TruckWe received the Alphabet Cards to try out. My boys loved these. The cards are very sturdy and will hold up to kids. We traced out several letters with the Wikki Stix that were provided in this set. Even my 3 year old loved to trace the letters out. My oldest liked spelling out words with them. He is beginning to read so I love these for the short sight words. It provides him a fun way to practice these. We also received the Activity Set which includes 84 Wikki Stix! I love the board that is in this set. We have created lots of fun pictures with it. My 3 year old loves the board and has carried it around for days creating his own master pieces.

Keeping the Kids Happy Keeps everyone happy

I cannot say enough positive things about Wikki Stix. These simple stix provide so much to little hands. It’s a great hands on activity that can easily be just a fun activity or a learning session. I am currently in school, and hope to become an Occupational Therapist. And I think this is one product I will most definitely keep in stock, when I accomplish it. These stix are also reusable so you can create so many cool things before they wear out. I have unraveled these from the big stick ball that my youngest likes to create so many times in the past week. Even My husband got in on the fun! We have played with these endlessly, and are still using the same stix from the alphabet pack. I was very surprised at how well they hold up to little hands!

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Apr
08

Wikki Stix Pine Cone Bird Feeders

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By Shara Weiss

What you need:
1. Pine cones
2. Paste (peanut butter, Crisco, almond butter, etc)
3. Bird seed
4. Tool for spreading the paste (knife or spoon)
5. Pan to pour the seed into, for rolling the pine cones
6. Wikki Stix

pine cone bird feeders, a fun craft for kidsDirections:

Attach the Wikki Stix FIRST. Otherwise you’ll need to wrap your hands around the sticky paste/seeds in order to attach the stix. Secure a Wikk Stix to the pointy end of the pine cone. Attach another Wikki Stix (or two) to the first one in order to create a long rope for tying around the tree.

Once you have attached the Wikki Stix to the pine cones, cover the cones in your paste. Roll your pine cones in the seeds. Place your pine cones aside and let them sit for about an hour. Hang them on your trees outside. If you hang the pine cones during a cooler time the paste will be less likely to drip.

Sit back and watch the birds arrive!

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Apr
03

50 Ways to Wikki

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How do YOU Wikki? Here are 50 ideas to get you going!
50 ways to use Wikki Stix for Craft for Kids and Teaching tools

  1. Make jewelry (rings, bangles, necklaces, angle bracelets and more)
  2. Hang light weight nuts and bolts in your garage or workbench area
  3. Play Fridge Words!
  4. Label count down blocks
  5. Spell a name on the window
  6. Spell a name on paper to practice a child’s name
  7. Underline words while reading a book
  8. Create animal shapes for a zoo lesson
  9. Create nature shapes during a nature lesson
  10. Keep the kids busy while waiting in line
  11. Make superheroes!
  12. Keep the kids entertained on a long drive
  13. Design a pretend watch for your wrist
  14. Decorate an egg carton in order to make a caterpillar
  15. Give them to a teacher as a teacher gift
  16. Send them to a child or relative as a stocking stuffer
  17. Use them with bottle caps to create a “recycled” art project
  18. Create beautiful animals
  19. Teach a sensory based art lesson
  20. Design window art during holidays
  21. Use them to label things in a college dorm room
  22. Use them to decorate home made cards
  23. Teach your child or students about shapes
  24. Use them in the classroom to demonstrate words during language arts
  25. Teach Math with Wikki Stix
  26. Teach Science with Wikki Stix
  27. Use them as teacher gifts at a fine motor seminar or training event
  28. Use them to create fancy heart shapes for Valentines Day
  29. Create cool heart displays on a billboard at a hospital during heart health month
  30. Use them as baby shower gifts so the mom can use the Wikki Stix while in labor to keep her mind off the pain (natural pain remedy)
  31. Pass out as corporate gifts that can be used as “stress busters”
  32. Tie a cord
  33. Use Wikki Stix as whiskers when you create toilet paper roll bunny rabbits for Easter crafts
  34. Make Christmas ornaments
  35. Make Hanukkah ornaments
  36. Fix a pair of glasses
  37. Open a jar using Wikki Stix
  38. Hang a note on the fridge
  39. Secure a grip on a golf club
  40. Make some fun shoe laces
  41. Combine several stix in order to use Wikki Stix as a long “string” for the kids to hold on to, during fire drills at school (great for resource rooms!)
  42. Secure the bottom of flowers, when making egg carton/pipe cleaner flowers
  43. Stock a few packs in your closet as last minute birthday gifts for kids
  44. Use them during counseling sessions as an anger management strategy for children dealing with grief or frustration
  45. If you run a craft business, keep Wikki Stix around to use during crafting events, home parties, traveling craft shows and more
  46. Spell out your child’s name on a bedroom door using Wikki Stix (no glue or nails needed – totally removable and reusable)
  47. Attach Wikki Stix to a cork board in order to hang hair bows (lined in a row)
  48. Give them as nanny gifts for sitters and nannies who like to carry a “rainy day of fun ideas” bag
  49. If you use a reward system in your classroom, try the Wikki Stix Prize Paks as a reward
  50. Make resin eggs for an Easter activity

There are so many ways to Wikki!

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