Back to School Color Sorting Mats For Preschoolers

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With the beginning of a new school year, I think that these FREE Back to School Color Sorting Mats are a nice activity to start this school year on the right foot, for your preschoolers to practice important skills, and for you to assess their knowledge in those areas. It is also the type of activity that children like.

Back to School Color Sorting Mats For Preschoolers

These Back to School Sorting Mats printable includes ten sorting mats and ten tile sheets in colors yellow, orange, pink, red, green, blue, purple, brown, white, and black. You can grab it at the end of this post.

Benefits Of Sorting Activities

One of the things preschoolers enjoy the most is sorting. It is something that comes naturally today since they are younger. Sorting gives children the opportunity to categorize objects and reflect on what is going on in their world.

This color sorting activity is simple and educational, and will help your preschoolers practice their:

Color recognition (identifying the color on the tile and the corresponding mat).
Sorting (choosing the right color tiles among all of the other colors).
Discrimination (deciding which color tiles go with the corresponding mat).
Fine motor, hand-eye coordination, and control (placing the tiles in the squares).
Concentration skills (focusing on the task).
One-to-one correspondence (matching the tiles with the appropriate mat).
Language development (talking about the colors and the objects in the tiles).

Back to School Color Sorting Mats

This sorting activity requires very little prep work. To get it ready, you only need:

FREE Back to School Color Sorting Mats (found at the end of this post).
Printer.
White paper or cardstock.
Laminator.
Laminator pouches.
Dry-erase pockets.
Scissors.
Glue.

If you want to use this printable as a one-time activity, print all the pages on white paper. Cut out the tiles and have the children glue each tile on the appropriate mat.

If you want to reuse it, print it on white cardstock. Laminate everything or place the mats in dry-erase pockets, and cut out and laminate the tiles to have them available for years to come.

When you are done using the activity, store it on sheet protectors placed in a binder, to keep them safe.

Include Storybooks in Your Centers

Fill your library and the different centers with many books about back to school and color. If you don’t have many available, you can always find a lot at your local library or used bookstore. Of course, you can order them through my Amazon affiliate links by clicking the images of some of my favorites below.

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