1. The spinning addition wheel - I bought the wheel from Oriental Trading and made a simple worksheet to go with it. Each student got a turn spinning the wheel twice as everyone wrote down the numbers and practiced adding them together. This was a huge favorite.
2. Interactive butterfly addition on the Promethean board - the butterflies are easily manipulated so that each student can create their own addition problem and write the answer. As the kids started getting really good at this, I changed it up and would have one student tell us a simple addition story about butterflies. Example, "I saw 3 butterflies in the garden and then all of a sudden 9 purple butterflies joined them. How many butterflies are there now?" They loooooved coming up with addition stories. 
4. The homemade addition machine - I asked my dad to make me an addition machine and he totally came through! I chose two students to come up to the machine (one on each side) and gave one some plastic red hearts and the other plastic pink hearts. They would pick a number, write it on the white board, and then drop their hearts in at the same time. All of their hearts join in the equal bucket. First we see if we can add it input heads fluently and then we check our answer by counting all of the hearts in the bucket. Another huge hit! 
5. Disc Drop Addition - we dropped two discs down the board and then practiced adding them together in our heads. We would also make sure there was 100% partcicpation by using white boards.
7. Addition Golfing- I bought the golf club sets from Walmart and wrote numbers on the hole markers. I gave the kids a template, told them they get 2 swings per turn, and viola! They loved practicing adding using golf.
I'm having so much fun teaching addition that I don't want to move on to subtraction yet!
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