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Sorting & Categorizing Activities For Kids

With pre-school students, it’s important to help them connect with the world around them through sorting and categorizing activities that teach them to identify like objects. Button boards and playing with collected leaves are a cheap and easy way to teach young learners about real-life objects. Use those same buttons and leaves in rounding estimation activities that will build early math skills, too.

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Create a Color Collage

Here's a preschool color collage activity to help your child work on her sorting skills, and create a beautiful addition to the refrigerator gallery.

Healthy Food Hunt

Teach your preschooler about healthy foods and how to make a meal that is good for her with this fun activity that you both can do together.

Create a Rainbow of Healthy Food

Help your preschooler chart her good eating habits with this arts and crafts activity that has her making a healthy fruits and vegetables rainbow and graph!

Classifying Objects

Boost your preschooler's math and verbal skills by having her participate in simple, fun activities that teach her how to sort, count, and categorize objects.

Sorting and Ordering: Collect Autumn Leaves!

Help your preschooler learn science and math skills like sorting, sequencing, and ordering while taking a nature walk and collecting and collaging leaves.

Count and Sort Fruit Salad

In this fun snack-time activity, kids boost counting, sorting, and color recognition skills as they make a delicious and nutritious snack.

Make Chocolate Chip Shape Cookies

Have fun with the kids by "shaping up" your standard chocolate chip cookie recipe, and teach kids about sorting and shapes while you're at it.

Make Your Own Memory Matching Game!

You don't need to spend big bucks to buy a pre-boxed version of a matching game at the store. You can make your own easily. Here's how:

Preschool Sorting

This hands-on activity that involves arranging pieces of yarn will teach your pre-K child the concept of ordering items by length in an interesting way.

Create an Egg Carton Color Sorter

Teach your preschooler color recognition using this handy egg carton sorter. She will group objects by color and learn to recognize their names with this tool.

What Doesn't Belong? A Categorization Game

This educated-guessing game is great for preschoolers. This activity helps your child work on her reasoning skills.

Nature Rubbings

Your preschooler wonât need a passport to go on this nature safari! All you need are paper, crayons and a nature trail or your back yard.

Jelly Bean Math

This flexible activity for preschoolers features jellybeans, counting, coloring, and the five senses.

Clothespin Drop!

Help your preschooler practice counting, matching, and learning colors with this fun game!

Homemade Food Pyramid

A homemade food pyramid poster will challenge your child to eat healthier. Soon he'll be asking for vegetables instead of boycotting them!

Counting Game for Kids

Help your child learn the language of mathematics through cupcakes with this fun counting activity.

Practice Blind Finger Counting!

In this preschool counting game, kids learn to count with their fingers, but without their eyes!

Chopstick Math for Chinese New Year

Celebrate Chinese New Year by teaching your child how to use chopsticks! She'll build her math and fine motor skills as she does this activity.

Challenge your kindergartener to finding out if a coin toss is really fair by conducting this coin toss experiment.

Play this fun matching game with your kindergartener! It's a great way to practice math and number skills with playing cards.

Make Math Fun with Buttons!

Have a lot of loose buttons lying around the house? Here are four ways to turn those loose buttons into an easy and positive learning experience. Button up!

Math Treasure Hunt

There's nothing like a treasure hunt to get kids excited about math and sorting.

Start a Survey!

Put your kid in charge of her own survey! She'll poll her relatives and friends, collect information, and then create a colorful chart to display her findings.

Keep a Lid on It!: A Sorting Game

This activity is a great way to practice sorting, counting, matching, and other early math skills--- on the fly.

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