Simple Sorting

I came across this idea on the Crafty Mumma's Facebook page and loved it. Such a simple activity to make and educational too!!
So here's how we did it. While Master E and Miss M were asleep I added coloured paper spots to the bottom of an egg carton for some colour matching fun.
We headed outside to see what we could find!

All ready for some matching! 

Master E picking some RED leaves to pop into the red spot.

Slowly getting there. White flower, red leaves, brown stick, green leaves, purple flowers!

Miss M was keen to help but not so great at working out where things should go.

All done, we found something for each spot minus the light blue! Master E got right into the matching and was really good at finding the colours. He did need a bit of direction, for example I would say "Can you find something to put in the white spot?" and off he would go searching for the appropriate colour. With some of the more difficult colours I would prompt with "I can see something for the blue spot" followed by a location.   

Master E was really into this one and when we came inside he started to do some matching with his cars.

Fruit and Vegetable Printing

This is a really simple and very effective printing activity. Choose a variety of fruits and vegetable to create prints from. We used potatoes, orange and apples. If you cut the apple across ways and remove the seeds you reveal a fabulous star shape which looks brilliant when printing. 

I cut a few apples, oranges and potatoes in half and mixed up some simple colours in poster paints on some lids from margarine containers.

The fruit and vegetables were cut into chunky pieces that were easy for little hands to hold. 

Sliding the fruit and veg made some great colouring mixing occur!

We also had some great paint pads which worked brilliantly with the oranges showing all of the lines and details very clearly.

 Some hand painting and face painting added to the sensory experience.   

 The results were simple yet very effective and will look great on my wall!