A game with coins uses change with differing denominations and challenges the players to "add up" their winnings. Pair students off into groups of two with several different coins. Use play coins if you do not have real ones. Ask one player to make a column out of all the coins. Each player takes a turn and removes one coin from the row. Once all of the coins are removed have the players add up all of their coins. Ask younger players to give a total number of won coins and ask older students to give a combined sum of their amounts.
Use any number of students to play snip, snap, snorum. Give each child five small candies or pennies to use as counters for this game. Ask the kids to sit in a circle and keep an opening in the center for their counters. Divide a standard deck of face cards evenly among the participants. The first student puts down a card, while other students look to see what they have on hand in their cards. If the first player deals an ace, the student next to him looks to see if he has an ace. If the second person has an ace he says "snip." The first child then places a coin or candy into the "pot." If the child going next has an ace, he says "snap" and the student who went second places two items into the pot. If perchance the fourth person in a row has an ace, he then says "snorum" and the student who went third places three coins or candies into the pot. The game is over when everyone has given up their counters. The winner is the student with one or more counters left.
Students must work together to reach the number 100. However, they must start over if anyone makes a mistake. Going in a row, each student says a number, starting with one. The next student says two and so on. When a child comes to a number that either contains the number seven or is divisible by the number seven, he must say "buzz" instead of reciting the number. If someone forgets to say "buzz" the next student start the counting over at one. Get to 100 and the game is over. Tailor the game to younger students by asking them to call out "buzz" for each time a number contains a seven instead of being divisible by seven.
Challenge students to create a geometric necklace or bracelet using beads and thread. Ask younger children to create a pattern with their beads by placing a certain amount of colors on the thread in an ABC or ABAB pattern. An ABC pattern uses one color, a second color and a third color and repeats the patter throughout the bracelet. An ABAB pattern uses one color, a second color and then the first color again in a differing pattern. Challenge older students to make designs by using different bead shapes and colors.