The idea for this activity came from Teaching Tiny Tots. This is a fun and easy activity to put together. Get 2 each of several different sheets of paint chips from your local paint store. Cut the paint chips on one sheet and glue one each to a clothes pin. You're done! O enjoyed matching the colors, and she really had to pay attention since the colors are so similar. I also like that this is a fine motor exercise. O had a little difficulty managing the clothes pins, so I held the cards up for her while she clipped the paint chips to them. I think this will be another popular work on O's shelf!
I want to try this with the paint cards! We've done just a homemade painted version with the rainbow colors. But at 21 months Esme has a hard time with the clothespins - she can't even get them open yet... So she just matches the clothespins up, I pin them on, and she takes them off again...
ReplyDeleteWhat a fantastic idea!
ReplyDeleteOh wow!!! thanks for liking it and all!!! we love it and its cost :)
ReplyDeletevery fun. now, if i can just remember to pick up some of those paint samples!
ReplyDeleteAs I read your blog I've always wondered how you store all these small pieces? Can you take a picture? :) Thanks for all you do... your ideas are always great!
ReplyDeleteWhat a great idea!
ReplyDeleteHi Melissa, hope all is well with you.
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I love this idea! Thank you!
ReplyDeleteI agree with storing everything. I find myself constantly organizing everything. I'd love to see your method.
We have over the door shoe holders that are PERFECT for markers, pieces, etc. But I still need many more ideas. I feel like I have so much stuff for so many projects. :)
Hi! I'm new to your blog, and loving all the ideas! I did a similar activity with my kids using the Disney paint samples. Each sample looks like a Mickey head, with only one shade on each card. I chose several shades of each color and put them in a basket. My littles ones like to sort them by color. It's interesting because some of the yellows and oranges or blues and reds could be interpreted as different colors. My son might put a card under orange, while my daughter would put it under yellow. I really teaches them how colors relate to one another. Love the activity, thanks!
ReplyDeleteOops, I meant blues and purples, not blues and reds! Sorry!
ReplyDeleteKyrsten- We keep most of the different activities on O's Montessori shelf. However, we never have enough room for everything. Our house is small and has very little storage. I just put things wherever I can find a place. I'm hoping to get more organized if only I can find the motivation. If I do, I'll take a picture :)
ReplyDeleteJamie- I also use the over the door shoe organizers. I have them over every door possible, and I really need to organize them because they are getting junky :)
I made something similar to this today, and put pictures up on my blog. Its a clothespin color wheel.
ReplyDeleteThis is genius! I am off to Home Depot right now. :)
ReplyDeleteokay, wow! simple and beautiful! kudos!!
ReplyDeleteOh I love this! I've been coveting the Montessori colour-shades (third box, I think) activity for DD who is WAY beyond the basic colour activities - she's known all her colours pat since about 18mo.
ReplyDeleteBut the box is expensive and I prefer to make stuff at home when feasible... and the idea of printing out all those colours and cutting and laminating all that work just did NOT seem feasible lol...
But this is cheap, easy, neat, practical, I'm off to Home Depot!
its a nice activity melissa can i use it for my assignment thanks.
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