Sorting Bins

A cut-and-sort page. The pictures come out with scissors and go into the bins underneath, which is what makes it a table activity rather than a pencil one: cards can be moved, argued about and moved again before anything is glued down. The rule is the setting. Sort by what kind of thing it is, by the letter the word starts with, by how many times you clap the word, by whether it is bigger or smaller than the child, by whether it is alive, by season, by where an animal lives, healthy food against treats, by colour, or flat shapes by their shape. Letters and claps follow the picture's name in the book's language, and the word is printed under each picture for those two rules, so a child is never guessing which name you had in mind. Name the bins yourself (p b, 2 3 4, winter summer, red yellow blue) or let the page choose.

Age

ages 3–9

Answer key

Included, free

Skills

classificationvocabularyscissor skillsvisual discriminationphonics

What you can change

• Sort them by

  What kind of thing it is, The letter it starts with, How many claps in the word, Big or small in real life, Living or not living, Which season…

• How many bins

  2–4 bins

• How many pictures

  4–12 cards

• Print the word under each picture

• Bins drawn as

  Baskets, Plain boxes

• Every page also takes the book's language, page size, theme and pictures.