Button Sorting: Color & Shape
I do a lot of sorting activities with Mary (31 months). She loves them but I’m always looking for something different to do. I was reading in The Happy Mommy Handbook by Katie Norris and Susan Case
What you need for both activities: basket, sorting container (found mine in the dollar section at Target) and plastic buttons
Sorting Color
I started Mary on sorting color first. I had my older daughters pick 4 colors and then pull out all the buttons of that color. It was fun for the older girls to be involved in the activity. We repeated this activity until she had done all the colors.
I set it up with 4 colors. Mary and I went through and labeled the colors. Mary pointed to each color as we said them.
Mary started to sort through the colors. Mary liked to do one color at a time. She would often put it in the wrong box and says “no match”.
Once Mary finishes she likes to show me her empty basket.
Sorting Shapes
Shapes is always harder after doing colors. Mary’s first reaction was to sort them by colors. We went over the shapes in the 4 bins.
Mary was confused at first with all the colors in the basket.
Soon Mary was going and sorting her shapes one at a time.
Something so simple and fun for little ones. Buttons are lots of fun. I’ll have several more posts on buttons coming soon look for them this month!
Cassie – 3Dinosaurs.com
Buttons present so many fun possibilities for kids. You picked some great activities.
My daughter love too sort even my son and they are older. It keeps them busy! I have them sort toys too!
It is fun that they are all involved in sorting the buttons. 🙂
I bought these exact same containers from Target too! I love them! I haven’t shared what we have been doing with them yet but this is a great way to use them too! I bought a BUNCH of them:)
I bought several of them too! They are great! My girls love them!
I love the idea of sorting buttons (or any household items really!) into colours or shapes! Looks like your girl got the hang of it pretty easily 🙂 xx
The shapes took a little longer but she loves to do it now.
Those are awesome buttons! Love all the shapes and fall colors. Great simple idea for tots. Thanks for sharing.
She has a lot of fun with buttons lately.
I never thought about it before- but sorting shapes after sorting colors would be a lot harder! Super activity!
And fun way to give Mary many different ways to use the buttons.