Base Ten -- paper beads

I tried to make some golden beads on paper -- here in pdf, left on gif.

It doesn't go up to thousands : ( and I think sometime if I can acquire enough beads I'll try to make some "real" ones). I'm just using regular beads or some other counter for the units.

Here are some base-ten activities and paper manipulatives (using base-10 blocks rather than beads)

Here are some virtual base-10 manipulatives.

Here's an online base 10 game Paddy likes quite a bit. ... it goes up to 100's but you can start with just units, or units and 10's.