20+ Clever Sorting Activities for Preschoolers

Here are three different ways to sort farm animal counters. Preschoolers love these manipulatives!

Initial sound object matching is a great phonics activities for beginning readers. Many students really respond well to tactile learning.

Teaching graphing is easier than you might think.  It is the natural next step after sorting and categorizing, something that preschoolers love to do anyway.

This activity is easy to put together and extremely effective in helping students not only recognize the initial sound in a word but also correspond that sound to a letter.

This rainbow trees color sorting activity is a fun way for young children to practice color recognition and sorting while also working on their fine motor skills.

These rainbow shamrock color sorting printable activities are a fun way for toddlers and preschoolers to practice color recognition and sorting while also working on their fine motor skills.

Make food fun for preschoolers with these printable fruits and veggie color sorting mats.

This simple but brilliant activity for toddlers uses foam cubes to teach color sorting and work on fine motor skills.

Sorting and matching pom poms is an easy preschool measurement activity that requires very little set-up.

These Back-to-School Dominos teaches math skills, such as sorting and matching.

This Daily Lessons in Preschool Mathematics Comparing & Sorting Unit includes everything you need to teach sorting differentiation skills to your preschooler.

Jingle bell drop is a color sorting and fine motor activity for preschoolers. It combines holiday themes with educational activities and is so much fun!

This fine motor color sorting activity using jumbo plastic tweezers was a huge success with my students.

This activity teaches preschoolers how to sort by type which is important for developing analytic thinking skills.

This farm themed Old Maid is a free children’s card game, and luckily it also has some wonderful educational benefits such as teaching sorting and visual discrimination.

Attribute sorting has real life applications, as does all other math, but we sort and classify much more frequently than we might realize.

This simple board game will help preschoolers learn to sort buttons by color and attribute. It's a great addition to your preschool math curriculum.

Bottle caps are a useful material for the preschool classroom, especially for sorting activities.

Dyed pasta is a simple way for preschoolers to learn to sort in different ways.

These math picture books for preschoolers are wonderful ways to introduce math concepts to early learners.

This Fall Activity Bundle includes four seasonal activity packs and multiple variations of each activity!