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Teaching Activities
Memorize in Minutes: The Times Tables includes over 65 different activities that help students learn the multiplication facts.  (Here are 20 of the activities.)
 

1. Act Out Story:
Have students act out a multiplication fact story. Have them pretend they are the characters in the stories.

2. Balloon Drawings:
Have students draw the characters from a multiplication fact story on a deflated balloon with fine point permanent markers. Inflate the balloons and use them as characters while acting out the story.

3. Banner:
Have the students design a banner for each multiplication fact. Each banner should include the fact and the picture. Display them around the room.

4. Book:
Have students compile their artwork or fact charts into a multiplication fact book.

5. Bulletin Board:
Divide a large bulletin board into many smaller bulletin boards. As you add new multiplication facts, display the students’ drawings on the sections of the bulletin board.

6. Chalk Drawings:
Have students use chalk to illustrate a multiplication fact story.

7. Clay Sculptures: 
Have students sculpt clay models of the objects and characters used to remember a multiplication fact story. (Always a favorite)

8. Coloring:
Have students color the multiplication coloring pages and organize them into a coloring book.

9. Crayon Drawings:
Have students use crayons to illustrate a multiplication fact story.

10. Colored Pencil Drawings:
Have students use colored pencils to illustrate a multiplication fact story.

11. Concentration:
Use the flash cards to play Concentration. Match the answer with the picture, the answer with the fact, or the picture with the fact.

12. Cross Number Puzzle:
Have students use graph paper to design a cross number puzzle using the multiplication facts. (A cross number puzzle is a crossword puzzle with numbers instead of words.) 

13. Finger Painting:
Have students use finger paints to illustrate a multiplication fact story.

14. Glitter Art:
Have students draw a multiplication fact story picture with glue, and then sprinkle colored glitter on it.

15. Mobile:
Have students design a mobile using the pictures from the multiplication fact stories.

16. Model:
Have students use papier mache to build a model of the characters or events in the stories.

17. Mural:
Have students create a giant mural of the multiplication fact stories.

18. Sand Painting:
Have students make a sand painting to illustrate a multiplication fact story. Have them draw the picture with glue, and then sprinkle colored sand over it.

19. Shaving Cream Art:
Spray a pile of shaving cream on each students’ desk. Have students illustrate the multiplication fact stories. (Shaving cream is a great desk cleaning soap).

20. Yarn Art:
Have students design a picture of a multiplication fact using yarn glued to a piece of paper.

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