These free task box templates are great for teaching counting and for helping students package items up to 5 pencils per package. This particular template is designed for pencils and can be used with pencil cases, pencil boxes, or pencil pouches. Or you could just use zip lock bags. I actually designed them for a student who was struggling, as a middle schooler, to learn to count to 5. So, we still needed to work on counting, but I wanted counting to be embedded into functional skills for him. This template helped with that.
Independent Work Inspiration: Material List
- Print the free templates from the resource library and laminate for durability
- Pencils
- Pencil cases, pouches, boxes or Zip top baggies
Free Task Box Templates for Packaging: Who Are They For?
You could use these free templates with just about any age. As I mentioned, I created them for a middle schooler. And the packaging task is something designed as a vocational task. However, they are useful templates to practice counting functional items for elementary through adulthood. They are great to practice packaging materials for a school store.
In addition, a great feature is that students don’t need to be able to count accurately. Students can independently package 1 to 5 pencils with the templates by matching them to the template. Then they pick them up and put them in the box, as I demonstrate in the video below. Plus, you can embed counting into it before you add it to independent work if you want, while the student is still mastering the skill.
Free Task Box Template for Packaging Video Tutorial
Tips for the Free Task Box Template for Packaging
The free task box templates come with a template for 1 pencil up to 5 pencils for packaging. You can use them with pencil boxes or pencil pouches as you see below. You can really use them with any container. In addition, you can use them to have students count out pencils for counting outside of independent work.
The free templates print out on a full size, 8.5×11 inch paper so that full size pencils can be laid over them. Theoretically, you could have students package different numbers of pencils in different boxes. But it might be difficult to make sure they know which box goes with which template (e.g., red box gets 3 pencils). Typically, I give them one template to use consistently with every container. Just make sure, as I noted in the video, that the student has the same number of pencils that match the number of packages you expect to be completed.
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