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Umbrella Counting & Color Sort – STEM for kids

Shruti Acharya | February 5, 2016 | 15 Comments

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Umbrella Counting & Color Sort – What a brilliant STEM idea for your toddler/preschooler to celebrate Umbrella Day. This simple activity promotes fine-motor skills and color recognition! 

We love simple activities that build skills! The Umbrella Counting & Color Sort activity is perfect for small groups or independent work. Use it as a Letter U craft for toddlers and preschoolers. Great rainy day craft, or for a preschool weather unit or theme. Plus its perfec for Umbrella Day that’s on 10th of Feb this year.

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Umbrella Counting & Color Sort - What a brilliant STEM idea for your toddler/preschooler to celebrate Umbrella Day. Use as Letter U craft, Spring craft or even when yu are holed up inside on a rainy day. This simple activity promotes fine-motor skills and color recognition!

  • Colored papers (different colors)
  • Scissors
  • Foam numbers
  • Pipeclear bits
  • Cello tape
  • Buttons
  • An empty round box

To Make:

Umbrella Counting & Color Sort - What a brilliant STEM idea for your toddler/preschooler to celebrate Umbrella Day. Use as Letter U craft, Spring craft or even when yu are holed up inside on a rainy day. This simple activity promotes fine-motor skills and color recognition!

Layer all the colored sheets on top of each other. Now using a pencil & the lid of a box, trace a circle in the center

Umbrella Counting & Color Sort - What a brilliant STEM idea for your toddler/preschooler to celebrate Umbrella Day. Use as Letter U craft, Spring craft or even when yu are holed up inside on a rainy day. This simple activity promotes fine-motor skills and color recognition!

I did a free hand drawing of the umbrella shape and cut them out. Don’t they already look pretty?

Umbrella Counting & Color Sort - What a brilliant STEM idea for your toddler/preschooler to celebrate Umbrella Day. Use as Letter U craft, Spring craft or even when yu are holed up inside on a rainy day. This simple activity promotes fine-motor skills and color recognition!

Next, cut the matching pipeclears in matching colors into 4 inch strips.

Umbrella Counting & Color Sort - What a brilliant STEM idea for your toddler/preschooler to celebrate Umbrella Day. Use as Letter U craft, Spring craft or even when yu are holed up inside on a rainy day. This simple activity promotes fine-motor skills and color recognition!

Bend them at the bottom to form a J shape handle for the umbrellas

Umbrella Counting & Color Sort - What a brilliant STEM idea for your toddler/preschooler to celebrate Umbrella Day. Use as Letter U craft, Spring craft or even when yu are holed up inside on a rainy day. This simple activity promotes fine-motor skills and color recognition!

Secure them to the back of the umbrella using clear tape. Umbrella Counting & Color Sort - What a brilliant STEM idea for your toddler/preschooler to celebrate Umbrella Day. Use as Letter U craft, Spring craft or even when yu are holed up inside on a rainy day. This simple activity promotes fine-motor skills and color recognition!

Now that our umbrellas are ready, we need to decide which umbrellas will hold which number. My daughter loved choosing the numbers herself.

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We used readymade Foam stickers with a sticky backing and stuch a different number onto different umbrellas. You could alternately draw your numbers with a blackmarker.

Umbrella Counting & Color Sort - What a brilliant STEM idea for your toddler/preschooler to celebrate Umbrella Day. Use as Letter U craft, Spring craft or even when yu are holed up inside on a rainy day. This simple activity promotes fine-motor skills and color recognition!

That’s it. Collect lots of colorful buttons and then get your preschooler to sort the buttons by color first and then by numbers. Since buttons are a choking harard, please ensure that Adult supervision is present at all times. If you don’t like using buttons, you could us large pom poms or even toy cars.

Umbrella Counting & Color Sort - What a brilliant STEM idea for your toddler/preschooler to celebrate Umbrella Day. Use as Letter U craft, Spring craft or even when yu are holed up inside on a rainy day. This simple activity promotes fine-motor skills and color recognition!

I love that this is so simple to pull out and use again. It takes me about two minutes to lay the umbrella’s ut and gather the buttons.

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About Shruti Acharya

Shruti is a writer, photographer, DIY lover, passionate homemaker, and the chief dreamer at ArtsyCraftsyMom.com . Shruti lives in Bangalore, India with her husband and daughter. She loves showcasing fun art activities, crafts for kids, celebrations, childrens books & all the craziness that is India.

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Comments

  1. Nicole says

    March 30, 2016 at 3:22 am

    What a great hands on learning idea for kid!! Sharing with my followers. Thanks for linking up with Inspire Me Monday. I hope you have a great week!!

    Reply
  2. Kim says

    April 5, 2016 at 1:25 am

    This is wonderful! I love the bright colors and different textures that you used! It is a great way to keep little ones attention on the counting task. #HomeMattersParty

    Reply
  3. Shannon says

    April 6, 2016 at 1:03 am

    What a great post! Thanks for sharing at the Wonderful Wednesday Blog Hop. I will be featuring you on my page this week 🙂

    Reply

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