OUTSIDE OF THE BOX, LEARNING WITH PAINT SWATCHES

I love looking for ways to teach my children using thrifty methods. I am sure you have seen on various blogs with moms teaching with paint swatches from the hardware store. I had started doing this when my 2nd son was 2 years old (2 years ago). Now I am using them with my 3 year old daughter. BUT I have thought of a few new ways to do so! Check them out below!

 Materials:

Larger paper paint swatches

Crayons (the same colors as the paint swatches)

Smaller white pieces of paper cut in squares

Glue stick

Hole Puncher

Loop Ring

 I had my daughter color each square the same colors as the paint swatches, so one square would be red, one orange, one yellow and so on.

 Then I had her glue each colored square she colored on the matching paint swatch.

Then I hole punched it and looped it with a ring. She now has a learning color flashcard book she made all by herself!

 Then I took larger paint swatches and cut them in half so I had 2 piles of the same color

Then are played color matching game, lay the colors face down and match!

Next, matching colored paper clips to the Mickey Mouse paint swatches.

Materials:

Colored paint swatches

Colored paper clips

 I simply had her match the colored paper clip to the same color Mickey Mouse paint swatch.

Have you ever incorporated paint swatches in your learning, if so how?