Set up

This activity requires a flat working space and is ideal for carpet or a rug floor time.

1. If you are using smaller pieces of paper, use your tape to stick a few pages together to make one larger piece of paper. You will need space to sort and chart.
2. With a ruler, draw some columns on your paper- these will be your sorting columns. Make sure your columns are wide enough for the objects you are using.
3. Now use your coloured markers and draw a different colour square in the top of each column. This will help your child with a visual of where to sort each object.
4. Find a bunch of objects that are similar- in this case we used our cars. My son is obsessed with cars so it’s the perfect initiative to get him learning without knowing that he is actually learning! Now you are ready to sort.

You might like to encourage:

1. Your child to sort the objects by colour and place them under the correct colour column.
2. You might like to ask your child to count the number of cars in each column. You might even like to record your answers on another page like we did. We made a simple list of coloured boxes that matched our graph, we put an equal sign next each box with space to write our answers. 
3. You might like to ask your child to identify which columns have one (1) car, two (2) cars and so on. This could be recorded too.     
4. You could ask your child which colour has the most and least amount of cars.

Be creative and follow natural learning progression, you’ll be amazed what your child comes up with!

Variations activities:

This is one of those activities that has so much flexibility and variation you can try:

• Sorting by different categories or attributes eg: trucks, car trailer etc.
• Using a range of different objects e.g. lego, blocks, markers, pencils- anything you have lots of.

This activity is endless- comment and tell us where this experience took you!