Rainbow Bear Cards: Size Order

I am so excited to introduce you to the #toolsforlearning series!! Every Tuesday an awesome team of bloggers will be taking on the challenge of activities with common educational manipulatives! We want learning to be hands-on, interactive and definitely fun!! Follow the #toolsforlearning hashtag on Instagram to see all the amazing activities & share your own using the manipulative of the week! We’re starting off the series with rainbow counters: bears, animals, all things rainbow! Like these Size Order Rainbow Bear Cards.

Materials needed for the Size Order Rainbow Bear Cards:

Rainbow Bears

Paper

Laminating Pouches

Laminator

Scissors

To Prep: Print the Size Order Rainbow Bear Cards, laminate and cut them apart.

We started by doing an example row. I showed Shiloh how to put the cards in order with large, medium and small. Then she tried.

She is really great at self-correction when it comes to colors, so even though she tried putting the wrong color in her row, she quickly realized that it was wrong and placed it in another row.

Then we worked on matching the cards with the rainbow bear manipulatives.

We tried them horizontally. Then vertically.

And even tried them spread out around the desk. That was harder, so we talked while we worked. “Which picture is the biggest?” “Where does the small bear go?”

It’s really important that kids realize that size doesn’t just apply to pictures on a paper. That’s why the rainbow bear manipulatives are great for this activity. I really like the Thinking Kids Math Bears that we have because they can be sorted with both six different colors and three different sizes. They cost a little bit more than some other brands of rainbow bears, but it has been totally worth it for us.

We have used them for:

Graphing

Number Cards for Counting to 10

And this awesome Rainbow Bear Preschool Mega Pack!

Need more ideas for using your rainbow bears or rainbow counters? Check these out!!

Graphing with Rainbow Bears from Still Playing School

Rainbow Bears Preschool Letter Cards from Learning 2 Walk

Size Order Rainbow Bear Cards from Life Over C’s

Color and Size Sorting with Rainbow Counters from Line Upon Line Learning

Alphabet Formation Compare Bears from Adventures of Adam

Size and Color Sorting {Learning with Rainbow Bears} from Squiggles and Bubbles

Animal Counters Sensory Bin & Color Sort from Raising Little Superheroes

Color Graphing with Rainbow Bears from Schooltime Snippets

Rainbow Bears Sensory Bin from Something 2 Offer

Counting More or Less with Farm Animal Rainbow Counters from Stir the Wonder

Measuring with Rainbow Bears from Mom Inspired Life

Don’t forget to use #toolsforlearning on Instagram to share your Rainbow Bear & Counter learning activities!!