Colour Cup Match

What you need

• a set of coloured stacking cups
• blocks in the same colours

How to do it

1. Set out three stacking cups in different colours.
2. Hold up a block, say its colour, and drop it in the cup that matches.
3. Pass them the next block and ask 'which cup?'
4. Say the colour of whichever cup it lands in.

Why it matters

Matching a block to a cup is a simple 'same', with colour as the only clue.

What they're learning

Colour matching

Finding the cup that looks the same as the block is sorting by colour alone.

Colour words

Every block comes with its colour said out loud.

Aiming

Dropping a block into a cup takes a steady hand over a small target.

What to look for

Watch for them holding a block over one cup, checking, then moving to another.

A tip

Take out any cup whose colour has no block, so there's always a match to find.

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