Mom to Mom
Starting around 18 months, toddlers begin to notice differences and commonalities between objects-which means it's time to sort and group!Today, take some of your holiday decorations, food items, or gifts, and work together to "sort" them by color, size, shape, texture, or type. For older kids, increase the complexity of the items you sort or the categories you sort them in.
Share with us the combinations you created in the comments below.
(Tip: Sorting Cubes and Block Assortments are both great toys to help build these sorting skills.)
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My 6yo enjoys sorting/counting, etc.
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Sounds fun! -
My kids are too old for this one.
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Great idea! I will do this with DS3 this afternoon.
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My niece and I have been sorting colors most of the morning :)
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We did this 2 nights ago w/ ds. We had sausage and cheese for dinner and he had to sort them out by shape. Then we did it by color and then by name. We also did it w/ ornaments. -
We sort M&Ms by color a lot.
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My kids enjoy this! We try to do it all the time with toys and pictures. -
my kids I dont think woudl like this one but I do have them when we decorate the tree they get to each pick 2 colored bulbs that they are in charge of putting on the tree so I guess that would be kind a sorting thing cause they have to sort through the bulbs to get their colors out of the box with all the decorations.
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Don't have a little one around today to do this with but will do it next time I see my neice.