Free Preschool Learning Game
For Matching And Sorting

Experts agree that preschool matching and sorting games develop concentration, teach recognition and help kids understand spatial relationships. They are also a fun way to encourage both counting skills and number recognition.

Matching

Preschoolers naturally want to sort things by colour, shape, and size. When you are watching your child play, you will see this tendency in action, as they try and make sense of the world around them.

They naturally sort their cars by colour and their blocks by size. Watch a child with a handful of crayons and they will often separate the crayons into the different colours that they see.

You can use this need to sort things to make learning early math skills exciting for preschoolers.

Free Preschool Learning Game
A Matching Game To Make And Do

You will need to print or draw matching pairs of gloves, socks and hats. A ball of string and some pegs

Secure the string to the wall using tape to make a clothesline. Paint your drawings so that you have a variety of matching pairs of clothes. Arrange the pictures of clothes on the floor beneath the clothesline with a handful of wooden pegs. Show your child how to use the clothes pegs to attach the clothes pair to the clothesline.

This clothes matching is a hands on activity that kids will love and teaches them essential math skills at the same time. Using clothes pegs will be tricky for your preschooler to do at first, but it will develop their hand-eye coordination and gives them a sense of accomplishment when they master the skill.

Free Preschool Learning Game For Sorting

Learning to distinguish between things is a major accomplishment for your little pre schooler. Whenever possible, let your child help you sort things around the house.

Colour Sort

In the kitchen you could sort the fruits and vegetables by colour. When playing a game sort game pieces by colour. In your child’s’ bedroom sort toys by colour.

Size Sort

In the kitchen you could sort spoons by size. When doing the laundry, sorting the socks by size.

Number Sort

Have a box of buttons, Sort buttons by number of holes in them Sort playing cards by number.

This is one of my favourite games to play with my pre school group, it helps develop wonderful thinking skills, and a brilliant free preschool learning game to do.

Find 3 objects that are alike in some way, such as the same colour, the same size, the same shape, or the same type of object. Then, find one that is different.

Set out the objects and have your child find the one that is different.

Sometimes your child will pick one that is not the one you had intended as the different one. However, ask your child why, as he may have a valid reason why this one is different and the others the same. If he can explain his reason, accept his answer.

This is a great game to teach your child how to look at all characteristics of an object, and how to see that objects can fall into different categories.

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This set features 10 brightly-painted wooden patterns and 30 colorful shape pieces to replicate the fun pictures. They're perfect for early development of colors, shapes and matching skills.

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