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Rainbow Sorting Activity for Preschoolers that Can Hang

March 3, 2018 by Sheryl Cooper

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Inside: Put together a rainbow sorting activity for preschoolers that will not only work on color recognition, but also fine motor skills. The final product creates a nice hanging decoration for your window. Free sorting printables included!

I love classroom decor that is made by the children.

I also love a good clearance sale.

So, when I was planning our rainbow theme, I recalled the clear plastic baubles I had purchased after Christmas that were a steal. I thought of a way to involve our preschoolers making a rainbow we could hang in our classroom window.

This was a great color sorting activity plus it strengthened fine motor skills as the children used their fingers to push the small pieces through the openings of the baubles.

And I just love the results!

Rainbow Sorting Activity for Preschoolers that Can Hang

Putting Together a Rainbow Sorting Activity

What we used:

  • Clear plastic fillable baubles, similar to these .
  • Small pieces that are the colors of the rainbow.
  • Color sorting printables. (Scroll down to find download.)

CLICK HERE to find more rainbow activities!

Hanging Rainbow Sorting Activity for Preschoolers

The activity:

Print the color sheets and laminate, if desired. (I love to laminate my printables so we can store them in our theme boxes and use them year after year. I use and love this laminator.)

Spread the color sheets on a flat surface and place the small pieces on a tray.

Invite the children to sort the small items by color, placing them on the matching colored sheets.

Once the pieces are sorted, place one bauble on each color sheet.

Tell the children they are going to make a rainbow! Invite them to take the baubles on each color sheet and place the pieces inside.

Hanging Rainbow Sorting Activity for Preschoolers

Some will use fingers, some will use thumbs.

This is a great fine motor exercise!

Hanging Rainbow Sorting Activity for Preschoolers
Hanging Rainbow Sorting Activity for Preschoolers

Once the pieces have been placed in the baubles, place the tops back on them.

Hanging Rainbow Sorting Activity for Preschoolers

Have the children place the filled baubles on the matching colored sheets.

Hanging Rainbow Sorting Activity for Preschoolers

Call out each color while doing so.

Hanging Rainbow Sorting Activity for Preschoolers

Now they are ready to be hung!

Place the baubles in rainbow order.

Hanging Rainbow Sorting Activity for Preschoolers

We already had a tension rod in our window, so I used paper clips to hang the baubles on them. Christmas hooks would have worked better, but that would mean having to dig through my Christmas boxes that I feel like I just packed up and put away.

So, paper clips were the next best thing and worked fine.

Hanging Rainbow Sorting Activity for Preschoolers

The children love looking at our hanging rainbow, and will call out the colors as they point to each one.

Click photo below to get the pdf download:

free toddler preschool rainbow color sorting printable
Rainbow Sorting Activity for Preschoolers that Can Hang

More color fun for preschoolers:

Simple Color Sorting in a Bag

Toddler Rainbow Mobile Activity

Paper Plate Rainbow Suncatchers

Preschool Color Lesson Plans

I am so excited to be a co-author of these color theme lesson plans.

24 preschool learning activities for your colors theme, including literacy, math, science, art, fine motor, and more! A great resource for teachers and homeschoolers.

CLICK HERE for more information!

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About Sheryl Cooper

Sheryl Cooper is the founder of Teaching 2 and 3 Year Olds, a website full of activities for toddlers and preschoolers. She has been teaching this age group for over 20 years and loves to share her passion with teachers, parents, grandparents, and anyone with young children in their lives.

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