Fraction Discovery Bottles

After making discovery bottles for number sense and computation, I decided to try making some bottles for fractions. I used some wooden pieces from a collection of sorting objects. There are geometric shapes, as well as planes, cars and even a horse. One of the bottles contains LEGO pieces. Here's a peak at them.

Here's what you'll find in each of the bottles.

Bottle 1 – Transportation theme

Contains 5 wooden vehicles

• 3 cars/trucks, one red, one yellow and one blue 

• 2 airplanes, one red and one yellow

Bottle 2 – Shapes theme 

Contains 6 wooden shapes

• 2 circles, one red and one green

• 2 squares, one red and one green

• 2 triangles, one red and one green

Bottle 3 – Mixed set

 Contains 6 wooden shapes

• 2 circles, one red and one green

• 2 squares, one red and one green

• 2 triangles, one red and one green

Contains 5 wooden vehicles

• 3 cars/trucks, one red, one yellow and one blue 

• 2 airplanes, one red and one yellow

Contains 1 red wooden horse

Bottle 4 – LEGO theme
Contains 5 LEGO blocks

• 3 large blocks, one gray, one black, one white

• 2 small blocks, one gray and one red

I have created a packet with directions for making the bottles and one activity page for each of the four bottles. Here are a few sample pages.

Download Fraction Discovery Bottles. If you try these, please let me know what you think. If you have any other suggestions or ideas, please let me know.