Sorting Game For Toddlers

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IMG_20140316_010654149 (1)I know that there are mixed feelings about children and electronics. I think that they can be a great learning tool, but in moderation. Our daughter has a Nabi Tablet. It has been a wonderful tool in promoting learning for our daughter. She can access her ABC Mouse Learning Center from there and there are also a lot of learning apps that we selected for her. As I said, I think that is a fabulous tool to educate my daughter, but I also don’t want her parked in front of it for hours on end. I thought I could bring one of her favorite lessons to life.

There is one application that has an assortment of objects and a row of baskets that represents a category that each of these objects falls into. She loves this one & is starting to get pretty good at it. I decided to use this idea to create a similar game that she could play sorting various pictures & matching them to their coordinating category.

What you will need:

Paper bowls or another bowl shaped container

Old magazines or computer print-outs of clip art

Scissors

Glue

Posterboard

Directions:

Figure out what categories you would like to use. I chose animals, clothing, toys, food & transportation.

Flip through old magazines and cut out various pictures.

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Cut out pictures that fit your various categories.

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Put your pictures in a container.

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Make a sign for your category with picture examples of the category. Glue it to the inside of the bowl.

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Line up your sorting bowls & spread out the picture cutouts in front of them.

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Match up your pictures to the appropriate bowl. Here we have a dog, cat & horse matched up to the animal sorter.

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Hmm…Where does this go?

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Right there..right there

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My daughter loves anything that has pictures that she can sort through. She named off all of the cut outs and we sorted through them together. She did the best on her own with the animals and the food. I love this activity. It is cheap & easy to make and it is something we can do together or she can play with on her own.

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10 comments

  1. My girls have LeapPads, but seem to use my iPad more for kids games and such. But like the hands on of this and have to see if I have old magazines for this. Thanks for sharing and have a wonderful Sunday now 🙂

  2. Such a great idea! My son would love this with construction trucks, trains and cars! I shared on my Facebook and we’ll definitely be giving it a try 🙂

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