Color Sorting and Fine Motor Skills!

Hello All, This week my class was working on color sorting. A few of my little ones struggle with fine motor skills and attention to activities. This activity was awesome, the children were occupied for 20 minutes! This is what I did:

I bought these chip and dip trays at the dollar store over the summer. I placed pony beads of assorted colors in the center and gave each child a different color of tweezers. I bought these tweeezers a few years ago from oriental trading and they have been fantastic for all kinds of activities. I showed the children how to grab one bead and place it in their corner.

They each had to grab the pony beads that were the same color as their tweezers. Once they found and sorted all of their assigned color they counted how many they had moved. The children who finished early were allowed to move the unused color beads to the empty corner while counting.

After 20 minutes I finally had to tell the class to clean up, I think they would have played with this activity all day. It was great color sorting and fine motor practice. We will definatly be doing this activity on a regular basis!