My students LOVE any kind of COLORFUL games and puzzles. In the beginning of the school year, we work a lot on colors and sorting. These sorting mats are a perfect way to help students practice recognizing colors and sorting at the same time!
LET’S PREP!
To prep this game for my students, I printed all of the pieces on cardstock and laminated for durability. Then I cut out the sorting mats, as well as the puzzle pieces. I separated them into two piles for students. One pile had all of the sorting mats in it.
The next pile, had all of the puzzle pieces.
LET’S PLAY!
This game includes color mats and puzzle pieces for the following colors: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, pink, brown, black, and gray. To play, students simply grabbed a sorting mat, and looked at the color of the crayon that was show in the corner. Next, they needed to find, the 5 puzzle pieces with the same color to complete their mat.
Students had so much fun sorting all of the different color puzzle pieces onto the mats!
This is a great game that can be used multiple times throughout the school year as an independent station once students are comfortable playing it themselves. 
As my students become more comfortable with colors, we move onto color words! I loved using these color words reading pages with my students this year. It really helped them to work on beginning reading skills, as well as color words.
These color words writing pages were another fun tool that really helped my students to become confident with using their color words!
Both of these color words pages are available in my color words pack.
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There are so many fun and COLORFUL ideas to use with students! Check out these great ideas from some fabulous kid’s activities blogs!
FROM LEFT TO RIGHT:
Color Word Match It! // The Primary Post
Color Puzzles // A Dab of Glue Will Do
Coloring Sheets // Playdough to Plato
Color Safari // Literacy with the Littles
Color Hunt Around the Room // Mrs. Jones’ Creation Station
Walking Water Rainbow // The STEM Laboratory
Color Games // Fairy Poppins
Add, Color and Build Flowers // Happy Days in First Grade
Rainbow Train Color Graphing Game // Stay at Home Educator
Color Mixing Jars with Mouse Paint Book // Powerful Mothering
Color Matching Fish // Teach Me Mommy
Matching Colors and Numbers // Liz’s Early Learning Spot
Exploding Paint Bombs STEAM Activity // Schooling a Monkey
Color Sorting Mats // Sweet Sounds of Kindergarten
Learning Colors Memory Game // Sara J Creations
FREE COLOR SORTING MATS!
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