Activities for Hebe Three

Activities for sorting and grouping objects:

• Sort your shoes or socks out into matching pairs.
• Sort out toys into soft and cuddly or hard and smooth.
• Set treasure hunts by searching for ten green (or red, or yellow, or soft etc.) objects from the house or garden.
• Sort a packet of Smarties into colours and/or happy /sad colours.
• Sort cutlery into knives, forks, spoons.
• Hunt for different types of leaves on a walk. Sort them on to a collage, sticking smooth/spiky; green/brown; big/little into two different sorts.
• Try sorting some books onto two shelves: big books/little books, hardback/paperback, books I like to read/books I don't read.
• Sort out coloured pegs on a washing line.
• Draw a picture in two sets sorting out - food I like, food I don't like.
• Keep a weather chart - find a way to record each month, eg. Tick off the type of weather, colour in the type of weather on a block graph, complete in a calendar with a picture. Draw a picture of each type of weather as it occurs and stick in rows on a big piece of paper.