Children are naturally curious and full of imagination. Helping them learn about the world around them is a great way to develop their minds, but they don’t always need to be sitting in a classroom. As simple as a colour sorting activity can help them with their fine motor skills.
WHAT ARE FINE MOTOR SKILLS AND HAND-EYE COORDINATION?
These are the basic most essential skills for a child in which they are required to interact with the environment, and these can be developed through active play.
Fine motor skills are the movements of small muscles, such as those in the hands and wrists, that allow children to perform activities requiring precision and control with their fingers.
Hand-eye coordination is a parallel control of eye and hand movement. The processing of visual input to guide reaching and grasping and the use of proprioception of the hands to show the eyes.
IS COLOUR SORTING A LEARNING ACTIVITY?
As simple as it sounds, yes, colour sorting is a learning activity. First of all, children are naturally drawn towards colours, as they are bright and attractive.
When kids do colour sorting, they basically analyze information and think critically about the objects they are working on, separating colours, describing characteristics, comparing similarities and building data. There is a lot of critical thinking involved in the process.
Here is how you can set up a fun colour sorting activity for your kids. You can always buy coloured wooden coins, which are readily available at the crafts store. Or with objects and materials which you already have at home. Let’s explore more.
COLOURED PAPER AND BLOCKS
You can use coloured printer paper and blocks at home for a fun colour sorting activity experience.
COLOURED CUPS AND POPSICLE STICKS
Have Ikea coloured cups for kids? use them for colour sorting add coloured popsicle sticks or pompoms to the cups.
BLOCKS AND POMPOMS
Use pompoms to fit inside the back of the blocks. How fun is that?
EGG CARTON AND BUTTONS
Colour the inside of a colour carton with paint and give kids buttons or pompoms to colour sort.
COLOURED PAPER CIRCLES
If you don’t have pompoms on your hands, why not cut cute coloured circles from paper and sort them. How cool.
M&M COLOUR SORTING
Have some leftover Halloween candy? Or next time you get a pack of M&Ms or skittles, ask your kids to colour sort it! I bet your kids will love this one.
CONCLUSION
I hope you find the ideas helpful. These are just a few examples, sky is the limit to how you can easily do colour sorting activity with your kids with things at home. Don’t forget to checkout our YouTube video for how I did colour sorting activity with Zara.
