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Rainbow toy organisation activity


So I saw someone else on one of the FB family lockdown pages share this idea and I loved it. Our theme for the time being is looking at colours and light/dark. Partly because I love colours, but also because we've felt inspired by the fab GALT Rainbow Lab activities I posted about on my instagram account recently. This rainbow activity is great fun and uses multiple skills while occupying a fair bit of time. We spent most of the morning doing this. 

First step tip out ALL your toys on the floor (admittedly we skipped most of the stuffed toys because it got pretty crowded with four bodies plus the sea of toys). I didn't tell the kids what the end aim of our activity was.


Then divide the toys into groups depending on their colour. We used our toy boxes to keep them together as the toddler was pretty adamant he was going to mix things up again.


As we worked our way through the toys we talked about what colour they were and what those colours are in English, Swedish and French - this was repeated later when we were painting some pottery the kids had made last week.


We used some old scarves to help define there areas (had to make do with the colours I had), not at all necessary but it helped us as we had lots of balls rolling about.

The kids had to cooperate to plan the layout and where to put the toys.

It looked lovely in the end but lasted no more than a couple of minutes as the youngest decided to start throwing things all over the room. We finished off by organising all the toys into boxes (much needed, they often just get thrown into the nearest box for ease sake) and I managed to sneak out bits of crap and broken toys so a useful activity for us all in more ways than one.

Excuse the clothes, as you may have guessed they picked their own interesting ensembles!








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