Hi, this is Patrice Badami, with Acorn to tree crafting with Patrice and I wanted to show you an activity that was educational, but also fun. So it’s something you can do at home. Now what I did was I took a whole bunch of pieces of cardstock. And I cut them up all different colors. So what I did was for this project, they’re going to number one, they can match the actual cards to each other. So we have all the different colors, then the second thing they can do is they can actually count the different cards, if you have different numbers of cards, they can take colored paper clips, and matching them on. So that’s another that’s a matching. But also you can get a bag full of different colored paper clips, and you can turn it into a counting activity. So you can say that you’re you know your child, you could say Okay, put four paper clips on the different cardstocks hearing like that. Now, what I did was you don’t have to do it this way. But I laminated it just for durability and so I can continue working with it. And that just makes it just something that I can have for quite a while and being a teacher it’s helpful to have a different materials, but if you don’t want to do that you don’t have to use regular paper. So anyway, you’re going to have them count fine motor actually putting the clip on take strength and cool hand eye coordination, matching, you know, so it’s counting, matching, color recognition, lots of different skills in that fun little activity.
