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Button Mats Sorting by Attributes
- Activity Type: Printable Activity
- Theme: Season: Winter, Winter Clothes
- Learning Center: Math Center
This engaging preschool activity will have little ones sorting colorful button mats by both color and shape. Perfect for developing early math and cognitive skills!
Materials & Direction
Materials: Scissors, Tape, Velcro dots
Assembly Directions:
Print mat, cube, and buttons of choice
Laminate (optional)
If laminate, place Velcro dots on the back of the sorting pieces and on the mat
Directions for play: Using the button shape sorting mats, students sort the buttons by shape on the mat.
Find the Color Game: Students roll the color cube or color word cube, and locate the corresponding colored button. *Optional place the button card on a color sorting mat of your choice
Find the Shape Game: Students roll the shape cube or shape word cube and locate the corresponding shaped button. *Optional place sorting card on a shape sorting mat of your choice
Multiple Attributes Game: Students roll both a color and a shape cube. Next, they locate the corresponding button sorting card. *Optional place sorting card on the multiple attributes sorting mat.
Learning Standards: Identifies 2-dimensional shapes, Uses hand-eye coordination to manipulate small objects/tools, Compares and matches or sorts objects by multiple attributes, begins to recognize common words by sight