Put in tasks are a great option to add to your significant needs classroom. Put in tasks allow students to follow one-step directions, give them a clear beginning and end to the task and works on fine motor skills. Put in tasks are simple, just a container and an item to put in the container.
Put in tasks are cheap and easy to pull together with items you find around your house or from the dollar store! See below for some photos of put in tasks I have in my classroom and grab the shopping list for your local dollar store at the bottom.
For these put in tasks, I grabbed a small container from my house that I was not using anymore, and a pack from the dollar store. My husband used a drill bit to make a hole in the top of the lid. I have several small pieces students add. Pictured here are mini erasers, beads, dice, and earplugs. I spent $4 to make this set.
I bought two containers and use a knife to cut into the tops of each one. The green one has a slit and the red one has a square. The third container is an emptied small coffee creamer container. I used a deck of cards as the task for the green one, small counting cubes for the task for the red container and candles as the task for the creamer container.
I also like to use drink containers. I just remove the straw and I already have a spot for the task to go into. I used pencils cut in half and cut up pipe cleaners for this task. Make sure you grind the pencil down so it is not sharp.
Planning to search around your house or head to the dollar store? Grab this downloadable sheet with ideas to make put in tasks!