This activity promotes development and learning by encouraging children to count, add, match, and sort everyday objects from around your home.
Materials Needed:
- Anything your child can find to show pairs, such as shoes, mittens, socks, cups, crayons, etc.
Participants: This activity is intended for adult/child interaction.
Directions:
- Challenge your child to go on a pair hunt around your house. Set a timer and see how many pairs of items your child can find in one minute!
- Count all the collected pairs. Ask: how many shoes are in a pair? How many shoes are in two pairs? Three pairs?