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Here are two open spirals made from cuisenaire rods.

  
 
I used only the even numbered rods.
You can experiment making spirals using the rods on our Cuisenaire interactive environment.
There may be some sets of real Cuisenaire rods in your school. 


When you've done a lot of exploring you might like to try the something similar with numbers.
If you do, have a look at Number Spirals here.