Square

Making a toothpick square

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Materials

• 8 toothpicks or craft sticks
• napkin

Completion

• Count out four toothpicks and make a square using the toothpicks
• Remove one toothpick and give it to the child. Ask him to place it back into the square. 
• Share that a square has four sides and all sides are the same
• Now remove two toothpicks and give to the child. Let him make a square again filling in where the two toothpicks should fit
• Hide the square with a napkin and ask the child to make a new square using four new toothpicks. When finished, compare to the covered up square.