Paint Chip Color Match

Using Paint Chip strips are  a cheap (actually free) way to help your child learn about the wonderful world of color. To see that there isn’t just one shade of green, red, blue, orange, etc.; it’s like opening that BIG BOX of crayons when you were little and seeing the eye-popping, jaw-dropping wondrous world of color!

A while ago. I posted color pockets; this is great for one of these color match ideas (just remember that I cut off the top of the envelope). For the other idea you just need glue, scissor and wooden clothespins.

For the Clothespin Matching: Just trim off a strip of the Paint chip strip and glue to the end of the clothespin and allow to dry. It’s that easy.

For the Color Pocket; just use Paint chip strips in the colors of your color pockets and let the children match the strips to the pockets.  It’s that easy.

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Color Pockets

I found a very easy envelope template to use for this. I made the envelopes from construction paper of different colors. Gluing the sides and then the bottom (I cut off the top). I made mine 4.5 inches tall and 2.5 inches wide.

You can use colored craft sticks to let your child match them to the envelopes. You can also use these as a counting game by making number cards to decide how many items go into each envelope.

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