Education Category: General, Creative
Ages:
Sorting activities:
Sorting shape, colour, size, weight etc.
Fill a bucket or a Tupperware box up with one of these materials: stones, shells, buttons, beats, dry beans.
Don’t put them alltogether but fill the bucket up with different kinds of stones or different kinds of buttons etc.
Activity Examples:
a)
- Let the child sort the stones and put them in groups.
- Give them clear instructions.
- Put all the little and the big stones together.
b)
- Make a group of all the blue beats
- More difficult: Sort all the beats matching color, green with green, blue with blue, red with red etc..
- Make a group of all the triangle shaped stones
- Make a group of all the heavy stones
Tip: you can also challenge the children to count the materials after they sort them! Count while you clean up!
Pair materials:
Make the children look for two of the same materials by using their senses (feel, touch, smell, see, hear, taste) .
Tip: if you blind fault the child he can also excerise to use his other senses.
Box with fabrics and cloths
- Make a box with fabrics and cloths which will feel different
- Put two pieces of fabric in the box
- The child is only allowed to feel
- Eyes are closed
- Encourage the child find two of the same kind
Other materials (put two pieces of every material in the box)
- Sand paper: different structures (to feel)
- Colour cardboard: different color (to see)
- Stones: different sizes (to feel)
- Food: different tastes (to taste)
Make a serie:
Choose one of the following materials to make a serie:
Stones, buttons, sandingpaper, sticks, branches, bottles etc.
Challenge the child to make a serie, give clear instructions:
- Make a row with buttons, from small to big
- Start with the smallest and find bigger, biggest
Stones: from light to heavy
Bottles: from small to big
Branches and sticks: from small to big or from short to long
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