Clothespin Color Wheel

Allie did a color matching activity very similar to this one over a year ago. I made this version thinking it would be the perfect multi-level learning activity for my home. All you will need are clothespins, paint, marker, scissors, and posterboard.

 

I traced an upside down large mixing bowl to get my big circle. Then I sectioned it into 8 pieces, but you can do as many as you like. I painted each section a different color.

As I painted the sections I made sure that I painted a clothespin for each color as well. You will see two of each in the photo because I made two sets (and then had to make a third).

I wrote the names of each color in the section. I also wrote the names of each color on the clothespins.

I gave the kids the circles with the clothespins already attached to the appropriate sections. I asked them to pull off all of the clothespins and put them in a pile. They loved pulling them off, maybe a little too much.

Then I told them to match the clothespins to the colors on the wheel. I demonstrated one match up to really show them, too. Charley started right at it.

This activity is great for matching, learning colors, and motor skills. We did this activity with Little Man while we were fostering him as he had trouble doing the pincher hold.  This activity was more for him to work on motor skills and hand-eye coordination (not so much on color matching). Oh, and it worked. He is got better every time we played this activity. Even his therapists noticed a big difference.

This activity helped Charley learn to match alikes and get more familiar with her colors. But it doesn't hurt to build those motor skills, either.

This activity is requested constantly at my house. The littler ones have so much fun playing with it that I had to make one for my four year old son, too. I am hoping we will have our colors down as sight words. We should as much as we play this. So there you have it, an activity that can be done by different ages and developmental stages (including special needs). Here is my daughter so proud of her completion. I know that you can't tell from the picture, but she is very happy and proud.