With three two year olds here today this was an ideal time to try this simple colour sorting activity. We painted some egg cartons and some toilet rolls in a variety of colours and waited for them to dry. I then presented them to the children together with some coloured pom poms and, after an initial play, some giant tweezers.
The children were fascinated with trying to match the colours to the various objects and enjoyed the challenge of being asked to locate certain colours. It was lovely to see how the boys took this activity to demonstrate their own interests with one taking out the pom poms and lining them up, another completely fascinated with catching his finger with the giant tweezers and another determined to place all the pom poms in the correct space.
This activity was great, not just for colour awareness but also for development of fine motor skills and for basic counting and sorting.
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