Hands and Fingers

Hand-

writing

Sensory

Motor

Conversation Heart Sorting Activity

Give your child a container of conversation hearts and a place for them to be sorted (i.e. muffin tin, ice cube tray). Have your child use tongs or, tweezers to sort the hearts by color, placing hearts of the same color in one spot.

Once all the hearts are sorted they can count them.

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Beginners can count each color, returning each heart to the original container as they count. This helps them learn one-to-one correspondence.

Older kids can count all of the hearts. They can place their hearts on a 100 Chart counting, or can even do simple addition (counting on) adding two colors together.

• Cut some mitten shapes out of construction paper or craft foam. Your child can help with this part!
• Write a lowercase letter on each of the mittens, or have your child do this.
• Write the same lowercase letters on each of the clothespins or write their uppercase match.
• Place two chairs several feet apart and then tie a piece of yarn to both chairs.
• Have your child find the matches and hang the mitten from the clothesline using the same letter clothespin. For an added challenge, have your child spell their snap words or spelling words along the clothesline using the mittens.

This activity works on letter identification and matching, bilateral coordination, fine motor planning and hand/finger strengthening.