Sorting is SO beneficial for children! Here are a few sorting printables to get you started. Sorting by different attributes such as color, size, shape, or things they like/don’t like is a great math activity. It makes valuable connections in the brain and it’s an important math skill. It is a great activity for toddlers …
We are on a sorting CRAZE at our house. B wants to sort everything! So this week will be all about sorting. I will be sharing different ideas and printables for you to try. Sort Your Halloween Candy Grab a handful and have your child sort by: type beginning letter color of wrapper size (big and …
Paper bags have been a quick and easy sorting tool for us lately. Paper bag sorting vowels and consonants (left) or words that start with sh or ch (right). Other Ideas for Paper Bag Sorting: Write numbers 1-5 on bags and have your child put the corresponding amount of an object in each bag. Write …
This same and different sort is simple to make, easy to set up, and fun for your toddler or preschooler to play. I wanted to give B a chance to experiment with same and different and I wanted to make sure he understood the concept. I put two stickers on each card. Some of them …
Last week I featured a few activities that you can do with bottle tops. I wanted to include this sorting bottle tops activity too because it is great for vocabulary! I had B sort the tops into 3 piles (small, medium, and large). It was neat to see him figure out which pile they should go …
Lately, B has been pointing to letters in books and saying “Why’d they make the g (or a) look like that?” So I decided to print the alphabet in different fonts and have him sort it. This was a really neat letter font sort activity. Not only did it give him practice identifying letters but also putting them …
This alphabet sorting activity is great for working on identifying letters and putting them in alphabetical order. It is really inexpensive to put together. I used foam letter stickers from the Target dollar spot (any letter sticker or letter magnet would work) and the three trays are actually shelves found at the Dollar Tree. The …
A blog I love, Little Hands Big Work, has done so many cool activities with a color wheel. We gave one of them a try (pictured above). This hands on way of working with colors is too awesome not to pass on to you. On the back of the color wheel she used stickers to …
B loves tools and to “do hard work” like his dad so I decided to give him a chance to use his measuring tape with this activity of measuring worms. I cut pieces of yarn to make “worms” in 2 inch, 4 inch, and 6 inch pieces. I felt like those lengths were easy for …
I found this Seasons Clothing Sort at Montessori For Everyone. I thought it would be an effective way to illustrate winter vs. summer (in Texas we don’t see much of a seasonal change outside so clothes seemed to be a good example). This printable includes all four seasons and clothes that go with them. A fun …
This letter sort activity works on letter identification (in different fonts), sorting, and classifying capital and lowercase letters. A graphic organizer is a great learning tool and classifying/sorting is an effective way to reinforce any concept. B feels confident with his lowercase letters now so I thought I’d give this letter sort a try. …