Take a laundry basket and collect socks from every family member of your house. Try to collect colored socks with the white socks. Below are some fun activities you can do with your socks.
* Sort the socks by color and size.
* Print color words on a piece of paper and have your child put the colored sock on the correct
color word. (For younger children use colored pieces of paper. If you do not have colored
paper, have your child color the paper.) Coloring the paper and having your child help you
print the color words are a great art activity.
* Make patterns with your socks by color and size.
* Roll your socks into a ball and take turns throwing them into the laundry basket. To add math
to this activity, make a target on the floor with a piece of paper and number the rings. Have
your child help with making the target. If a target is to hard, get three to four boxes and
number them. Have fun adding the numbers with your child. Use the extra socks as counting
tools to help them add.
Baby and Toddler Sock Time
Toddlers may do some of the activities above along with the following baby activites.
* Put a sock on your hand and play a body part game. Rub the sock on your child's arm and say
("I got your arm, arm, arm,") Continue with as many body parts as you want.
* Pretend your sock is a puppet and talk to your baby in different voices. Have the sock
sing songs to the baby.
* Play catch with your baby using a balled up sock
1 comment:
I tried out the sock activity with two three year old boys and they just loved it when we made the socks into balls and threw them into tupperware containers (I could not find boxes.) They also then decided to make a tower with the containers and throw the socks into the top container. They also did very well with sorting the socks by size. Thanks so much for some fun activities, it really helped me enjoy my day more.
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