Sorting and classifying objects are important skills for preschoolers–and this simple activity does that and much more. I didn’t really tell Big Brother that we were “graphing”…I just asked him to put the apples on top of the corresponding apple color. We then talked about which color of apple had the most, the least, and how many of each there were. A great learning activity for children as young as 2 that took less than 5 minutes!
Here’s what you’ll need: apples of various colors, a graph drawn on posterboard (I used the one I already made for Transportation graphing here), apples of the different colors drawn on index cards.
1. Put the assorted apples in a bowl.
2. Let your little one get busy putting the apples in the appropriate “column”.
3. Compare and count!
And, of course, we had to have a snack of apples and peanut butter afterwards!
I love looking at paint colors! It seems like every time I go to Lowe’s I end up coming home with a stack of paint samples (good thing I don’t go very often). :)
Three adorable mice come across three jars of paint. One is red, one is yellow, and one is blue. Thinking that the jars of paint are Mouse Paint, the three climb in. Next, they set about dipping their toes in other colors, creating entirely different combinations. Thus, kids learn that when a red mouse dances in a puddle of yellow paint, his feet will eventually turn orange. By the end of the tale, the mice are painting all sorts of colors, mixing and matching shades in all sorts of new and exciting ways.
). I cut our egg carton in half because we are still working on numbers 1-6 and aren’t ready to tackle 7-12 yet!
by Steve Jenkins
book…especially for dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals. The neat thing about these books is that the pictures are proportionate to real-live animals! Seeing that only an animal’s eye fits on the page really helps children comprehend the enormous size of dinosaurs and other animals!
