My preschooler loves to play with our frog and bear counters to practice color and size sorting! Sorting and separating rainbow counters
The ones I have are also beads, so my daughter loves stringing them into a necklace. We took turns making a pond full of colorful lily pads that needed the right colored frogs on them. She asked to practice color and size sorting again and again!
Color and Size Sorting with Frog Counters
Color sorting is the most obvious way to sort for a preschooler. We've already matched colorful shoes along with Pete the Cat! As I presented the different colored "lily pads" for my daughter to sort the frogs onto, she quickly got in to the challenge. I think I'll include this in the Rainbow Busy Box next time I set it up for my little one.
Once I pointed out the differences in sizes, Strawberry also loved sorting them out by size. Because of her creative mind, small and medium became "babies" and "big brothers and sisters," and the large frogs were the mamas and papas. My daughter loved to put the mamas and babies together. I had to make larger sized lily pads so the whole family could live together in our room-sized pond.
My older child wanted to play too, but he wanted to incorporate a game into our color and size sorting. My daughter insisted it be her Christmas present game: Spot It! Alphabet
Finding Rainbow Color and Size Sorters
As I said, I love these frogs. I believe Learning Resources stopped making the frogs, as I can only refer you to them secondhand on Amazon
However, so if you are looking for some small rainbow fun, you can also play with the Learning Resources Three Bear Family Rainbow Counters
Elementary-Level deas for Rainbow Counters
For my older child, I also made some simple pattern cards to use with the rainbow frogs. Patterning is an important skill for developing mathematical thinking skills and critical thinking in general.
Again, bears or any other rainbow counters would work well with these same cards! You can get the pattern cards in my TPT store or my shop.
Here are other ideas for using rainbow counters with kids of all ages:
- one-to-one correspondence
- addition
- subtraction
- greater than/less than (compare numbers of frogs on lily pads or in the caves)
- multiplication (make equal groups of the frogs)
- division (how many frogs per lily pad if you make equal groups)
Get More Rainbow Activity Ideas
See more rainbow activities on my blog and in my shop! Then, scroll down for a round-up of other rainbow counter activities.
- Rainbow Chain Link Toddler Color Matching from Sugar Aunts
- Graphing with Rainbow Bears from Still Playing School
- Rainbow Bears Preschool Letter Cards from Learning 2 Walk
- Size Order Rainbow Bear Cards from Life Over C's
- Alphabet Formation Compare Bears from Adventures of Adam
Size and Color Sorting {Learning with Rainbow Bears} from Squiggles and Bubbles - Animal Counters Sensory Bin & Color Sort from Raising Little Superheroes
- Color Graphing with Rainbow Bears from Schooltime Snippets
- Rainbow Bears Sensory Bin from Something 2 Offer
- Counting More or Less with Farm Animal Rainbow Counters from Stir the Wonder
- Rainbow Bears Addition Cards from The Kindergarten Connection
- Measuring with Rainbow Bears from Mom Inspired Life
- Numbers and Colors Grid Game from Little Bins for Little Hands
- Transportation Math: Sorting, Counting, and Patterning by Still Playing School
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Oh my goodness! I love those frog counters! Fantastic activity too!
I have never seen those frogs before – how adorable are they! What a brilliant game to go with them.
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I’ve not seen these frogs before-they look fantastic and I love the activity too!
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We own these frogs along with the workbooks that go with them! I found the workbooks first and searched high and low for the frogs. I love that they lace. Your printable for both frogs and bears is too cute!
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